On 20/07/20 6:21 pm, Hari Bathini wrote: > In kexec case, the kernel to be loaded uses the same memory layout as > the running kernel. So, passing on the DT of the running kernel would > be good enough. > > But in case of kdump, different memory ranges are needed to manage > loading the kdump kernel, booting into it and exporting the elfcore > of the crashing kernel. The ranges are exclude memory ranges, usable > memory ranges, reserved memory ranges and crash memory ranges. > > Exclude memory ranges specify the list of memory ranges to avoid while > loading kdump segments. Usable memory ranges list the memory ranges > that could be used for booting kdump kernel. Reserved memory ranges > list the memory regions for the loading kernel's reserve map. Crash > memory ranges list the memory ranges to be exported as the crashing > kernel's elfcore. > > Add helper functions for setting up the above mentioned memory ranges. > This helpers facilitate in understanding the subsequent changes better > and make it easy to setup the different memory ranges listed above, as > and when appropriate. > > Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > v3 -> v4: > * Unchanged. Added Reviewed-by tag from Thiago. > > v2 -> v3: > * Unchanged. Added Acked-by & Tested-by tags from Dave & Pingfan. > > v1 -> v2: > * Introduced arch_kexec_locate_mem_hole() for override and dropped > weak arch_kexec_add_buffer(). > * Dropped __weak identifier for arch overridable functions. > * Fixed the missing declaration for arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() > reported by lkp. lkp report for reference: > - https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1264418/ Sorry, copy-paste error. The patch version changelog is as follows: v3 -> v4: * Updated sort_memory_ranges() function to reuse sort() from lib/sort.c and addressed other review comments from Thiago. v2 -> v3: * Unchanged. Added Tested-by tag from Pingfan. v1 -> v2: * Added an option to merge ranges while sorting to minimize reallocations for memory ranges list. * Dropped within_crashkernel option for add_opal_mem_range() & add_rtas_mem_range() as it is not really needed. Thanks Hari _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
