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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] dump: Update correct kdump phys_base field
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] dump: Update correct kdump phys_base field for AArch64 |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:45:21 +0000 |
On 11 March 2018 at 17:42, Marc-André Lureau
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
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> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Wei Huang <address@hidden> wrote:
>> For guest kernel that supports KASLR, the load address can change every
>> time when guest VM runs. To find the physical base address correctly,
>> current QEMU dump searches VMCOREINFO for the string "NUMBER(phys_base)=".
>> However this string pattern is only available on x86_64. AArch64 uses a
>> different field, called "NUMBER(PHYS_OFFSET)=". This patch makes sure
>> QEMU dump uses the correct string on AArch64.
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>> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <address@hidden>
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> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
Thanks; applied to target-arm.next for 2.12.
-- PMM