powerpc: dump as a single line areas mapping a single physical page.
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Feb 22 20:48:03 AEDT 2019
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 12:25:20 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> When using KASAN, there are parts of the shadow area where all
> pages are mapped to the kasan_early_shadow_page. It is pointless
> to dump one line for each of those pages (in the example below there
> are 7168 entries pointing to the same physical page).
>
> ~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
> ...
> ---[ kasan shadow mem start ]---
> 0xf7c00000-0xf8bfffff 0x06fac000 16M rw present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c00000-0xf8c03fff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c04000-0xf8c07fff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c08000-0xf8c0bfff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c0c000-0xf8c0ffff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c10000-0xf8c13fff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> ... 7168 identical lines
> 0xffbfc000-0xffbfffff 0x00cd0000 16K r present dirty accessed
> ---[ kasan shadow mem end ]---
> ...
>
> This patch modifies linux table dump to dump as a single line areas
> where all addresses points to the same physical page. That physical
> address is put inside [] to show that all virt pages points to the
> same phys page.
>
> ~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
> ...
> ---[ kasan shadow mem start ]---
> 0xf7c00000-0xf8bfffff 0x06fac000 16M rw present dirty accessed
> 0xf8c00000-0xffbfffff [0x00cd0000] 16K r present dirty accessed
> ---[ kasan shadow mem end ]---
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/cabe8138b23c92e851b92c6a20ffb135
cheers
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