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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2017-09-11 18:59:26 +0200
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2017-10-15 05:54:40 +0300
commitd9feb51772b4ade9700c7fa54529327a6c8183a7 (patch)
tree38fc1ee6382cf7c1a46df512f20e1eba01111d40 /docs
parent903ef7349699dcd932b5981b85c1f1ebe4a4bf2a (diff)
dump: update phys_base header field based on VMCOREINFO content
If the guest note is VMCOREINFO, try to get phys_base from it. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
index 2868a77142..821261067f 100644
--- a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
@@ -39,3 +39,11 @@ qemu dumps.
The note format/class must be of the target bitness and the size must
be less than 1Mb.
+
+If the ELF note name is "VMCOREINFO", it is expected to be the Linux
+vmcoreinfo note (see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo
+in Linux source). In this case, qemu dump code will read the content
+as a key=value text file, looking for "NUMBER(phys_base)" key
+value. The value is expected to be more accurate than architecture
+guess of the value. This is useful for KASLR-enabled guest with
+ancient tools not handling the VMCOREINFO note.