Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] powerpc: Use note name macros

From: Dave Martin
Date: Tue Jan 14 2025 - 07:23:13 EST


Hi,

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 02:48:46PM +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> Use note name macros to match with the userspace's expectation.

Note, there seems to be some manual encoding of some arch-specific
notes in arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c, but since this is all hard-coded
and the note types are not taken from elf.h anyway, I think this is
probably out of scope for this series. I haven't tried to understand
fully what that code is doing.

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>

>
> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index 4b371c738213..d44349fe8e2b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ u32 *__init fadump_regs_to_elf_notes(u32 *buf, struct pt_regs *regs)
> * prstatus.pr_pid = ????
> */
> elf_core_copy_regs(&prstatus.pr_reg, regs);
> - buf = append_elf_note(buf, CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME, NT_PRSTATUS,
> + buf = append_elf_note(buf, NN_PRSTATUS, NT_PRSTATUS,
> &prstatus, sizeof(prstatus));
> return buf;
> }
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c
> index c9a9b759cc92..a379ff86c120 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c
> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static Elf64_Word *__init auxv_to_elf64_notes(Elf64_Word *buf,
> /* end of vector */
> bufp[idx++] = cpu_to_be64(AT_NULL);
>
> - buf = append_elf64_note(buf, CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME, NT_AUXV,
> + buf = append_elf64_note(buf, NN_AUXV, NT_AUXV,
> oc_conf->auxv_buf, AUXV_DESC_SZ);
> return buf;
> }
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static Elf64_Word * __init opalcore_append_cpu_notes(Elf64_Word *buf)
> * crashing CPU's prstatus.
> */
> first_cpu_note = buf;
> - buf = append_elf64_note(buf, CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME, NT_PRSTATUS,
> + buf = append_elf64_note(buf, NN_PRSTATUS, NT_PRSTATUS,
> &prstatus, sizeof(prstatus));
>
> for (i = 0; i < oc_conf->num_cpus; i++, bufp += size_per_thread) {
> @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static Elf64_Word * __init opalcore_append_cpu_notes(Elf64_Word *buf)
> fill_prstatus(&prstatus, thread_pir, &regs);
>
> if (thread_pir != oc_conf->crashing_cpu) {
> - buf = append_elf64_note(buf, CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME,
> + buf = append_elf64_note(buf, NN_PRSTATUS,
> NT_PRSTATUS, &prstatus,
> sizeof(prstatus));
> } else {
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static Elf64_Word * __init opalcore_append_cpu_notes(Elf64_Word *buf)
> * Add crashing CPU as the first NT_PRSTATUS note for
> * GDB to process the core file appropriately.
> */
> - append_elf64_note(first_cpu_note, CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME,
> + append_elf64_note(first_cpu_note, NN_PRSTATUS,
> NT_PRSTATUS, &prstatus,
> sizeof(prstatus));
> }
>
> --
> 2.47.1
>
>