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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'
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On 3/19/20 2:39 AM, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Add documentation for KERNELPACMASK variable being added to vmcoreinfo.
>
> It indicates the PAC bits mask information of signed kernel pointers if
> ARMv8.3-A Pointer Authentication feature is present.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> index 007a6b8..5cc3ee6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> @@ -393,6 +393,12 @@ KERNELOFFSET
> The kernel randomization offset. Used to compute the page offset. If
> KASLR is disabled, this value is zero.
>
> +KERNELPACMASK
> +-------------
> +
> +Indicates the PAC bits mask information if Pointer Authentication is
> +enabled and address authentication feature is present.
> +
> arm
> ===
>
>
>


Hi,

Does this require changes to the makedumpfile or crash utilities ?



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Thank You,
John

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