Randy,
Thanks for looking at this! Inline comments below.
eric
On 6/29/23 15:59, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Hi--
On 6/29/23 12:21, Eric DeVolder wrote:
Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory | 8 ++++++++
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 8 ++++++++
.../admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 8 ++++++++
Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/base/cpu.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
drivers/base/memory.c | 13 +++++++++++++
include/linux/kexec.h | 8 ++++++++
7 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
index 1b02fe5807cc..eb99d79223a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ The following files are currently defined:
Availability depends on the CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
kernel configuration option.
``uevent`` read-write: generic udev file for device subsystems.
+``crash_hotplug`` read-only: when changes to the system memory map
+ occur due to hot un/plug of memory, this file contains
+ '1' if the kernel updates the kdump capture kernel memory
+ map itself (via elfcorehdr), or '0' if userspace must update
+ the kdump capture kernel memory map.
+
+ Availability depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel
+ configuration option.
====================== =========================================================
Did you test build the documentation?
It looks to me like the end-of-table '=' signs line needs 3 more === to be long
enough for the text above it.
Hmm, the 'make htmldocs' renders and views ok. Is there perhaps another method I should use?
.. note::
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst b/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst
index e6f5bc39cf5c..54581c501562 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst
@@ -741,6 +741,24 @@ will receive all events. A script like::
can process the event further.
+When changes to the CPUs in the system occur, the sysfs file
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug contains '1' if the kernel
+updates the kdump capture kernel list of CPUs itself (via elfcorehdr),
+or '0' if userspace must update the kdump capture kernel list of CPUs.
+
+The availability depends on the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU kernel configuration
+option.
+
+To skip userspace processing of CPU hot un/plug events for kdump
+(ie the unload-then-reload to obtain a current list of CPUs), this sysfs
i.e.
got it, thanks.
+file can be used in a udev rule as follows:
+
+ SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"
+
+For a cpu hot un/plug event, if the architecture supports kernel updates
CPU
for consistency
got it, thanks.
+of the elfcorehdr (which contains the list of CPUs), then the rule skips
+the unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel.
+
Kernel Inline Documentations Reference
======================================
Thanks.
