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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for
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Hi,

On 3/19/20 7:21 PM, John Donnelly wrote:
> 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 ?

I did the corresponding change in crash tool. The link is mentioned in 
first patch of the series.

Thanks,
Amit Daniel
> 
> 
>