If we don't provide the page size in target-ppc:cpu_get_dump_info(),
the default one (TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, 4KB) is used to create
the compressed dump. It works fine with Macintosh, but not with
pseries as the kernel default page size is 64KB.
Without this patch, if we generate a compressed dump in the QEMU monitor:
(qemu) dump-guest-memory -z qemu.dump
This dump cannot be read by crash:
# crash vmlinux qemu.dump
...
WARNING: cannot translate vmemmap kernel virtual addresses:
commands requiring page structure contents will fail
...
Page_size is used to determine the dumpfile's block size. The
block size needs to be at least the page size, but a multiple of page
size works fine too. For PPC64, linux supports either 4KB or 64KB software
page size. So we define the page_size to 64KB.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
(cherry picked from commit 760d88d1d0)
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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