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Received: from authenticated user by stravinsky.debian.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_X25519__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1w4cP7-007SfO-16; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:20:59 +0000 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:20:48 -0700 From: Breno Leitao To: Jinjie Ruan Cc: corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, chenhuacai@kernel.org, kernel@xen0n.name, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, robh@kernel.org, saravanak@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, peterz@infradead.org, feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com, pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com, dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com, kees@kernel.org, elver@google.com, paulmck@kernel.org, lirongqing@baidu.com, safinaskar@gmail.com, rppt@kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org, jbohac@suse.cz, cfsworks@gmail.com, osandov@fb.com, tangyouling@kylinos.cn, sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com, ritesh.list@gmail.com, eajames@linux.ibm.com, songshuaishuai@tinylab.org, kevin.brodsky@arm.com, samuel.holland@sifive.com, vishal.moola@gmail.com, junhui.liu@pigmoral.tech, coxu@redhat.com, liaoyuanhong@vivo.com, fuqiang.wang@easystack.cn, x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/5] arm64: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation Message-ID: References: <20260323072745.2481719-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> <20260323072745.2481719-5-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20260323072745.2481719-5-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> X-Debian-User: leitao X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260323_032246_895395_E6D08983 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 21.55 ) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:34:24 -0700 X-BeenThere: kexec@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+kexec=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 03:27:44PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote: > Commit 35c18f2933c5 ("Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the > crashkernel= command line option") and commit ab475510e042 ("kdump: > implement reserve_crashkernel_cma") added CMA support for kdump > crashkernel reservation. > > Crash kernel memory reservation wastes production resources if too > large, risks kdump failure if too small, and faces allocation difficulties > on fragmented systems due to contiguous block constraints. The new > CMA-based crashkernel reservation scheme splits the "large fixed > reservation" into a "small fixed region + large CMA dynamic region": the > CMA memory is available to userspace during normal operation to avoid > waste, and is reclaimed for kdump upon crash—saving memory while > improving reliability. > > So extend crashkernel CMA reservation support to arm64. The following > changes are made to enable CMA reservation: > > - Parse and obtain the CMA reservation size along with other crashkernel > parameters. > - Call reserve_crashkernel_cma() to allocate the CMA region for kdump. > - Include the CMA-reserved ranges for kdump kernel to use. > - Exclude the CMA-reserved ranges from the crash kernel memory to > prevent them from being exported through /proc/vmcore, which is already > done in the crash core. > > Update kernel-parameters.txt to document CMA support for crashkernel on > arm64 architecture. > > Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) > Acked-by: Baoquan He > Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel > Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan > --- > v7: > - Correct the inclusion of CMA-reserved ranges for kdump > kernel in of/kexec. > v3: > - Add Acked-by. > v2: > - Free cmem in prepare_elf_headers() > - Add the mtivation. > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- > arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 2 +- > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 5 +++-- > drivers/of/fdt.c | 9 +++++---- > drivers/of/kexec.c | 9 +++++++++ > 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > index cb850e5290c2..afb3112510f7 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ Kernel parameters > It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used > or memory reserved is below 4G. > crashkernel=size[KMG],cma > - [KNL, X86, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from > + [KNL, X86, ARM64, PPC] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from > CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's > userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory > balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c > index c338506a580b..cc577d77df00 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image) > #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP > unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void) > { > - unsigned int nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */ > + unsigned int nr_ranges = 2 + crashk_cma_cnt; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */ You update arch_get_system_nr_ranges() to account for CMA ranges, but prepare_elf_headers() in the same file (line 51) still has the hardcoded: nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */ and does not exclude CMA ranges from cmem. If the generic crash core handles CMA exclusion from vmcore, then shouldn't arch_get_system_nr_ranges() also not need this change?