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    kcore: add _text to KCORE_TEXT · 36e15263
    Wu Fengguang authored
    Extend KCORE_TEXT to cover the pages between _text and _stext, to allow
    examining some important page table pages.
    
    `readelf -a` output on x86_64 before and after patch:
    	  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
    before    LOAD           0x00007fff8100c000 0xffffffff81009000 0x0000000000000000
    after     LOAD           0x00007fff81003000 0xffffffff81000000 0x0000000000000000
    
    The newly covered pages are:
    
    	0xffffffff81000000 <startup_64> etc.
    	0xffffffff81001000 <init_level4_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81002000 <level3_ident_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81003000 <level3_kernel_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81004000 <level2_fixmap_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81005000 <level1_fixmap_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81006000 <level2_ident_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81007000 <level2_kernel_pgt>
    	0xffffffff81008000 <level2_spare_pgt>
    
    Before patch, /proc/kcore shows outdated contents for the above page
    table pages, for example:
    
    	(gdb) p level3_ident_pgt
    	$1 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0xffffffff81002000 <level3_ident_pgt>
    	(gdb) p/x *((pud_t *)&level3_ident_pgt)@512
    	$2 = {{pud = 0x1006063}, {pud = 0x0} <repeats 511 times>}
    
    while the real content is:
    
    	root@hp /home/wfg# hexdump -s 0x1002000 -n 4096 /dev/mem
    	1002000 6063 0100 0000 0000 8067 0000 0000 0000
    	1002010 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    	*
    	1003000
    
    That is, on a x86_64 box with 2GB memory, we can see first-1GB / full-2GB
    identity mapping before/after patch:
    
    	(gdb) p/x *((pud_t *)&level3_ident_pgt)@512
    before  $1 = {{pud = 0x1006063}, {pud = 0x0} <repeats 511 times>}
    after   $1 = {{pud = 0x1006063}, {pud = 0x8067}, {pud = 0x0} <repeats 510 times>}
    
    Obviously the content before patch is wrong.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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