Re: [PATCH 2/3] riscv: Remove non-standard linux,elfcorehdr handling

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Στις 2021-06-15 21:17, Geert Uytterhoeven έγραψε:
RISC-V uses platform-specific code to locate the elf core header in
memory.  However, this does not conform to the standard
"linux,elfcorehdr" DT bindings, as it relies on a reserved memory node
with the "linux,elfcorehdr" compatible value, instead of on a
"linux,elfcorehdr" property under the "/chosen" node.

The non-compliant code can just be removed, as the standard behavior is
already implemented by platform-agnostic handling in the FDT core code.

Fixes: 5640975003d0234d ("RISC-V: Add crash kernel support")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

NACK

There is nothing standard about "linux,elfcorehdr", it's an arm64-specific property on /chosen and it's suboptimal, it gets the addr/length of ELF core of the previous kernel through that property and then goes on to reserve that region at:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.13-rc6/source/arch/arm64/mm/init.c#L155

Why on earth is this cleaner than just defining a reserved-region in the first place (a standard binding) with and hook up a callback with RESERVEDMEM_OF_DECLARE for it to also initialize elfcorehdr_addr/size ? If you don't like the compatible string I'm ok to change it, but this patch breaks kdump on riscv since that region won't be reserved any more and kernel will corrupt it.



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