On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:01:57PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Playing with kdump+virtio-mem I noticed that kexec_file_load() does not > consider System RAM added via dax/kmem and virtio-mem when preparing the > elf header for kdump. Looking into the details, the logic used in > walk_system_ram_res() and walk_mem_res() seems to be outdated. > > walk_system_ram_range() already does the right thing, let's change > walk_system_ram_res() and walk_mem_res(), and clean up. > > Loading a kdump kernel via "kexec -p -s" ... will result in the kdump > kernel to also dump dax/kmem and virtio-mem added System RAM now. > > Note: kexec-tools on x86-64 also have to be updated to consider this > memory in the kexec_load() case when processing /proc/iomem. > Against next-20210322. Hint: `git format-patch --base ...` > > David Hildenbrand (3): > kernel/resource: make walk_system_ram_res() find all busy > IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resources > kernel/resource: make walk_mem_res() find all busy IORESOURCE_MEM > resources > kernel/resource: remove first_lvl / siblings_only logic > > kernel/resource.c | 45 ++++++++++++--------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.29.2 > -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
