There are two methods to specify the location of the elf core headers:
using the "elfcorehdr=" kernel parameter, as handled by generic code in
kernel/crash_dump.c, or using the "linux,elfcorehdr" property under the
"/chosen" node in the Device Tree, as handled by architecture-specific
code in arch/arm64/mm/init.c.
Extend support for "linux,elfcorehdr" to all platforms supporting DT by
adding platform-agnostic handling for handling this property to the FDT
core code. This can co-exist safely with the architecture-specific
handling, until the latter has been removed.
This requires moving the call to of_scan_flat_dt() up, as the code
scanning the "/chosen" node now needs to be aware of the values of
"#address-cells" and "#size-cells".
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Notes:
1. To avoid reserving the region twice, this depends on "MIPS: Avoid
duplicate elf core header reservation",
2. IA64 also has custom code to reserve the region, but is not
affected, as IA64 does not use DT,
3. About the change to chosen.txt: I have a similar change for
schemas/chosen.yaml in dt-schema.
v5:
- Handle the actual reservation in generic code, too,
v4:
- Use IS_ENABLED() instead of #ifdef,
- Clarify what architecture-specific code is still responsible for.
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 6 +-
drivers/of/fdt.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
index 45e79172a646c537..5b0b94eb2d04e79d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ respectively, of the root node.
linux,elfcorehdr
----------------
-This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range,
-the address and the size, of the elf core header which mainly describes
-the panicked kernel's memory layout as PT_LOAD segments of elf format.
+This property holds the memory range, the address and the size, of the elf
+core header which mainly describes the panicked kernel's memory layout as
+PT_LOAD segments of elf format.
e.g.
/ {
diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 9e5074d52879649b..99be3e03af29089f 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "OF: fdt: " fmt
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/crc32.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/initrd.h>
@@ -581,6 +582,30 @@ static int __init __fdt_scan_reserved_mem(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
+ *
+ * This function reserves the memory occupied by an elf core header
+ * described in the device tree. This region contains all the
+ * information about primary kernel's core image and is used by a dump
+ * capture kernel to access the system memory on primary kernel.
+ */
+static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
+{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) || !elfcorehdr_size)
+ return;
+
+ if (memblock_is_region_reserved(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size)) {
+ pr_warn("elfcorehdr is overlapped\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ memblock_reserve(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size);
+
+ pr_info("Reserving %llu KiB of memory at 0x%llx for elfcorehdr\n",
+ elfcorehdr_size >> 10, elfcorehdr_addr);
+}
+
/**
* early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() - create reserved memory regions
*
@@ -606,6 +631,7 @@ void __init early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem(void)
of_scan_flat_dt(__fdt_scan_reserved_mem, NULL);
fdt_init_reserved_mem();
+ reserve_elfcorehdr();
}
/**
@@ -904,6 +930,32 @@ static inline void early_init_dt_check_for_initrd(unsigned long node)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
+/**
+ * early_init_dt_check_for_elfcorehdr - Decode elfcorehdr location from flat
+ * tree
+ * @node: reference to node containing elfcorehdr location ('chosen')
+ */
+static void __init early_init_dt_check_for_elfcorehdr(unsigned long node)
+{
+ const __be32 *prop;
+ int len;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP))
+ return;
+
+ pr_debug("Looking for elfcorehdr property... ");
+
+ prop = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,elfcorehdr", &len);
+ if (!prop || (len < (dt_root_addr_cells + dt_root_size_cells)))
+ return;
+
+ elfcorehdr_addr = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_addr_cells, &prop);
+ elfcorehdr_size = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_size_cells, &prop);
+
+ pr_debug("elfcorehdr_start=0x%llx elfcorehdr_size=0x%llx\n",
+ elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON
int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void)
@@ -1051,6 +1103,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
return 0;
early_init_dt_check_for_initrd(node);
+ early_init_dt_check_for_elfcorehdr(node);
/* Retrieve command line */
p = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "bootargs", &l);
@@ -1195,14 +1248,14 @@ void __init early_init_dt_scan_nodes(void)
{
int rc = 0;
+ /* Initialize {size,address}-cells info */
+ of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_root, NULL);
+
/* Retrieve various information from the /chosen node */
rc = of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_chosen, boot_command_line);
if (!rc)
pr_warn("No chosen node found, continuing without\n");
- /* Initialize {size,address}-cells info */
- of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_root, NULL);
-
/* Setup memory, calling early_init_dt_add_memory_arch */
of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_memory, NULL);
}
--
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