Re: [PATCH] kdump, vmcoreinfo: Export sme_me_mask value to vmcoreinfo

[lijiang]

å 2018å10æ27æ 22:51, Borislav Petkov åé:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 10:41:56PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
>> Actually, the value of 'sme_me_mask' is 0x800000000000 when SME is
>> enabled, otherwise it is 0. That is to say, if the bit 47 is set, the
>> bit number is also 0x800000000000 (1 << 47UL);
> 
> Yes, and you can simply copy the mask into your variable and export
> that. 

Ok, if you agree with the following patch, i will post it again.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 4c8acdfdc5a7..de363796ed20 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <asm/set_memory.h>

+u64 sme_mask;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sme_mask);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
 const struct kexec_file_ops * const kexec_file_loaders[] = {
                &kexec_bzImage64_ops,
@@ -357,6 +360,9 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
        vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(pgtable_l5_enabled)=%d\n",
                        pgtable_l5_enabled());

+       sme_mask = sme_me_mask;
+       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(sme_mask);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
        VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data);
        VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(node_data, MAX_NUMNODES);
-- 

> Thinking about it more, though, it might be better if you instead
> export a smaller value - not an u64 - and construct the mask in
> userspace. I.e., a u8 which should be enough for your current purposes.
> 
> I say current because if it turns out we need to export more SME-related
> info to userspace, exporting an u64 and then OR-ing in more information
> in it would allow that. u8 not so much. So doing something like:
> 
> [ misc	   ][ enc bit  ][ other misc SME info 				      ]
> 0000_0000_0000_0000_1000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000
> 63   59   55   51   47   43   39   35   31   27   23   19   15   11   7    3
> 
> would allow for exporting that additional info.
> 
> Especially if we want to use VMCOREINFO for more than kexec things.
> 

As you mentioned, if need, the definition of this variable(u64 sme_mask) can be extended
conveniently in the future(The bit might be redefined).

Thanks.
Lianbo