vmcoreinfo: include kallsyms symbols
The internal kallsyms tables contain information which could be quite useful to a debugging tool in the absence of other debuginfo. If kallsyms is enabled, then a debugging tool could parse it and use it as a fallback symbol table. Combined with BTF data, live & post-mortem debuggers can support basic operations without needing a large DWARF debuginfo file available. As many as five symbols are necessary to properly parse kallsyms names and addresses. Add these to the vmcoreinfo note. CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU does impact the computation of symbol addresses. However, a debugger can infer this configuration value by comparing the address of _stext in the vmcoreinfo with the address computed via kallsyms. So there's no need to include information about this config value in the vmcoreinfo note. To verify that we're still well below the maximum of 4096 bytes, I created a script[1] to compute a rough upper bound on the possible size of vmcoreinfo. On v5.18-rc7, the script reports 3106 bytes, and with this patch, the maximum become 3370 bytes. [1]: https://github.com/brenns10/kernel_stuff/blob/master/vmcoreinfosize/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220517000508.777145-3-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.comSigned-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@huawei.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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