Re: [PATCH v24 0/9] arm64: add kdump support

[AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:52:47AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> This patch series adds kdump support on arm64.
> 
> To load a crash-dump kernel to the systems, a series of patches to
> kexec-tools, which have not yet been merged upstream, are needed.
> Please use my kdump patches [1].
> 
> To examine vmcore (/proc/vmcore) on a crash-dump kernel, you can use
>   - crash utility (coming v7.1.6 or later) [2]
>     (Necessary patches have already been queued in the master.)
> 
> [1] T.B.D.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-August/016779.html

-Takahiro AKASHI

> [2] https://github.com/crash-utility/crash.git
> 
> Changes for v24 (Aug 9, 2016):
>   o Rebase to Linux-4.8-rc1
>   o Update descriptions about newly added DT proerties
> 
> Changes for v23 (July 26, 2016):
> 
>   o Move memblock_reserve() to a single place in reserve_crashkernel()
>   o Use  cpu_park_loop() in ipi_cpu_crash_stop()
>   o Always enforce ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT to the memory range of crash kernel
>   o Re-implement fdt_enforce_memory_region() to remove non-reserve regions
>     (for ACPI) from usable memory at crash kernel
> 
> Changes for v22 (July 12, 2016):
> 
>   o Export "crashkernel-base" and "crashkernel-size" via device-tree,
>     and add some descriptions about them in chosen.txt
>   o Rename "usable-memory" to "usable-memory-range" to avoid inconsistency
>     with powerpc's "usable-memory"
>   o Make cosmetic changes regarding "ifdef" usage
>   o Correct some wordings in kdump.txt
> 
> Changes for v21 (July 6, 2016):
> 
>   o Remove kexec patches.
>   o Rebase to arm64's for-next/core (Linux-4.7-rc4 based).
>   o Clarify the description about kvm in kdump.txt.
> 
> See the following link [3] for older changes:
> [3]  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-June/438780.html
> 
> AKASHI Takahiro (8):
>   arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel
>   memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()
>   arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory-range
>   arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown()
>   arm64: kdump: add kdump support
>   arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools
>   arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig
>   arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc
> 
> James Morse (1):
>   Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt |  45 ++++++
>  Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt                |  16 ++-
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                           |  11 ++
>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                 |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/hardirq.h             |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h               |  41 +++++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h                 |   2 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile                   |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c               |  71 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c            |  67 ++++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c                    |   7 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c                      |  63 +++++++++
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c                         | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/memblock.h                     |   1 +
>  mm/memblock.c                                |  28 ++++
>  15 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.0
> 
> 
> AKASHI Takahiro (8):
>   arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel
>   memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()
>   arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory-range
>   arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown()
>   arm64: kdump: add kdump support
>   arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools
>   arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig
>   arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc
> 
> James Morse (1):
>   Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt |  50 +++++++
>  Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt                |  16 ++-
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                           |  11 ++
>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                 |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/hardirq.h             |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h               |  41 +++++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h                 |   2 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile                   |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c               |  71 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c            |  67 ++++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c                    |   7 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c                      |  63 +++++++++
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c                         | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/memblock.h                     |   1 +
>  mm/memblock.c                                |  28 ++++
>  15 files changed, 556 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.0
> 

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