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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] riscv: Don't use va_pa_offset on kdump
Hello Palmer,

Any updates on those 3 patches ?

Regards,
Nick

Στις 2021-11-26 20:04, Nick Kossifidis έγραψε:
> On kdump instead of using an intermediate step to relocate the kernel,
> that lives in a "control buffer" outside the current kernel's mapping,
> we jump to the crash kernel directly by calling
> riscv_kexec_norelocate().
> The current implementation uses va_pa_offset while switching to
> physical
> addressing, however since we moved the kernel outside the linear
> mapping
> this won't work anymore since riscv_kexec_norelocate() is part of the
> kernel mapping and we should use kernel_map.va_kernel_pa_offset, and
> also
> take XIP kernel into account.
>
> We don't really need to use va_pa_offset on riscv_kexec_norelocate, we
> can just set STVEC to the physical address of the new kernel instead
> and
> let the hart jump to the new kernel on the next instruction after
> setting
> SATP to zero. This fixes kdump and is also simpler/cleaner.
>
> I tested this on the latest qemu and HiFive Unmatched and works as
> expected.
>
> v2: I removed the direct jump after setting satp as suggested.
>
> Fixes: 2bfc6cd81bd1 ("riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear
> mapping")
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.13
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.14

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