crash_core, vmcoreinfo: append 'SECTION_SIZE_BITS' to vmcoreinfo
commit 4f5aecdf upstream. As mentioned in kernel commit 1d50e5d0 ("crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo"), SECTION_SIZE_BITS in the formula: #define SECTIONS_SHIFT (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Besides SECTIONS_SHIFT, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is also used to calculate PAGES_PER_SECTION in makedumpfile just like kernel. Unfortunately, this arch-dependent macro SECTION_SIZE_BITS changes, e.g. recently in kernel commit f0b13ee2 ("arm64/sparsemem: reduce SECTION_SIZE_BITS"). But user space wants a stable interface to get this info. Such info is impossible to be deduced from a crashdump vmcore. Hence append SECTION_SIZE_BITS to vmcoreinfo. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608103359.84907-1-kernelfans@gmail.com Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2021-June/022676.html Signed-off-by:Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Baoquan He <bhe@redha...>
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