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I was busy with other stuff and did not pay attention to that > discussion. I understand, I'm busy with too much stuff such that sometimes it might be good to interrupt me earlier: "David, nooo, you're all wrong" > >> Some other subsystem wants to have access to this information. I agree >> that exposing these variables as r/w globally is not ideal. > > It's a nono in this case. We had bugs (long ago) where people fiddled > with this stuff (I assume accidentally for my mental sanity sake) and > caused really nasty to debug issues. C is a horrible language to > encapsulate stuff properly as we all know. Yeah, there is this ACCESS_PRIVATE stuff but it only works with structs and relies on sparse IIRC. > >> I raised the alternative of exposing areas or other information through >> simple helper functions that kmemdump can just use to compose whatever >> it needs to compose. >> >> Do we really need that .section thingy? > > The section thing is simple and straight forward as it just puts the > annotated stuff into the section along with size and id and I definitely > find that more palatable, than sprinkling random functions all over the > place to register stuff. > > Sure, you can achieve the same thing with an accessor function. In case > of nr_irqs there is already one: irq_get_nr_irqs(), but for places which Right, the challenge really is that we want the memory range covered by that address, otherwise it would be easy. > do not expose the information already for real functional reasons adding > such helpers just for this coredump muck is really worse than having a > clearly descriptive and obvious annotation which results in the section > build. Yeah, I'm mostly unhappy about the "#include " stuff. Guess it would all feel less "kmemdump" specific if we would just have a generic way to tag/describe certain physical memory areas and kmemdump would simply make use of that. For example, wondering if it could come in handy to have an ordinary vmcoreinfo header contain this information as well? Case in point, right now we do in crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init() VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY(mem_section); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(mem_section, NR_SECTION_ROOTS); VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mem_section); And in kmemdump code we do kmemdump_register_id(KMEMDUMP_ID_COREIMAGE_mem_section, (void *)&mem_section, sizeof(mem_section)); I guess both cases actually describe roughly the same information: An area with a given name. Note 1: Wondering if sizeof(mem_section) is actually correct in the kmemdump case Note 2: Wondering if kmemdump would also want the struct size, not just the area length. (memblock alloc wrappers are a separate discussion) > > The charm of sections is that they don't neither extra code nor stubs or > ifdeffery when a certain subsystem is disabled and therefore no > information available. Extra code is a very good point. > > I'm not insisting on sections, but having a table of 2k instead of > hundred functions, stubs and whatever is definitely a win to me. So far it looks like it's not that many, but of course, the question would be how it evolves. -- Cheers David / dhildenb