vmcoreinfo: include kallsyms symbols
authorStephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Tue, 17 May 2022 00:05:08 +0000 (17:05 -0700)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:31:39 +0000 (17:31 -0700)
commit5fd8fea935a1091083506d0b982fcc5d35062f06
tree6026678a593b3ac50efd122f21362f3e34dc22ae
parent71f8c15565d0f3d2f5b3339845e05cf4f03725cd
vmcoreinfo: include kallsyms symbols

The internal kallsyms tables contain information which could be quite
useful to a debugging tool in the absence of other debuginfo.  If kallsyms
is enabled, then a debugging tool could parse it and use it as a fallback
symbol table.  Combined with BTF data, live & post-mortem debuggers can
support basic operations without needing a large DWARF debuginfo file
available.  As many as five symbols are necessary to properly parse
kallsyms names and addresses.  Add these to the vmcoreinfo note.

CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU does impact the computation of symbol
addresses.  However, a debugger can infer this configuration value by
comparing the address of _stext in the vmcoreinfo with the address
computed via kallsyms.  So there's no need to include information about
this config value in the vmcoreinfo note.

To verify that we're still well below the maximum of 4096 bytes, I created
a script[1] to compute a rough upper bound on the possible size of
vmcoreinfo.  On v5.18-rc7, the script reports 3106 bytes, and with this
patch, the maximum become 3370 bytes.

[1]: https://github.com/brenns10/kernel_stuff/blob/master/vmcoreinfosize/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220517000508.777145-3-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@huawei.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/crash_core.c