linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: takahiro.akashi@linaro.org (AKASHI Takahiro)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v28 9/9] Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:59:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161124095944.7167-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161124095523.6972-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>

From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>

Add documentation for
	linux,crashkernel-base and crashkernel-size,
	linux,usable-memory-range
	linux,elfcorehdr
used by arm64 kdump to decribe the kdump reserved area, and
the elfcorehdr's location within it.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[takahiro.akashi at linaro.org: added "linux,crashkernel-base" and "-size" ]
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
index 6ae9d82..7b11516 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
@@ -52,3 +52,53 @@ This property is set (currently only on PowerPC, and only needed on
 book3e) by some versions of kexec-tools to tell the new kernel that it
 is being booted by kexec, as the booting environment may differ (e.g.
 a different secondary CPU release mechanism)
+
+linux,crashkernel-base
+linux,crashkernel-size
+----------------------
+
+These properties (currently used on PowerPC and arm64) indicates
+the base address and the size, respectively, of the reserved memory
+range for crash dump kernel.
+e.g.
+
+/ {
+	chosen {
+		linux,crashkernel-base = <0x9 0xf0000000>;
+		linux,crashkernel-size = <0x0 0x10000000>;
+	};
+};
+
+linux,usable-memory-range
+-------------------------
+
+This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range,
+the base address and the size, which can be used as system ram on
+the *current* kernel. Note that, if this property is present, any memory
+regions under "memory" nodes in DT blob or ones marked as "conventional
+memory" in EFI memory map should be ignored.
+e.g.
+
+/ {
+	chosen {
+		linux,usable-memory-range = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>;
+	};
+};
+
+The main usage is for crash dump kernel to identify its own usable
+memory and exclude, at its boot time, any other memory areas that are
+part of the panicked kernel's memory.
+
+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.
+e.g.
+
+/ {
+	chosen {
+		linux,elfcorehdr = <0x9 0xfffff000 0x0 0x800>;
+	};
+};
-- 
2.10.0

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-24  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-24  9:55 [PATCH v28 0/9] arm64: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:57 ` [PATCH v28 1/9] memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range() AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24 10:26   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 2/9] arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory-range AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 3/9] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 4/9] arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown() AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-28 15:04   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-11-29  5:47     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 5/9] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space tools AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 6/9] arm64: kdump: provide /proc/vmcore file AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 7/9] arm64: kdump: enable kdump in defconfig AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:58 ` [PATCH v28 8/9] Documentation: kdump: describe arm64 port AKASHI Takahiro
2016-11-24  9:59 ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2016-11-24 17:14   ` [PATCH v28 9/9] Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump Catalin Marinas
2016-11-30 20:44     ` Rob Herring
2016-11-25 16:20 ` [PATCH v28 0/9] arm64: add kdump support Catalin Marinas
2016-11-29 11:05   ` Will Deacon

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20161124095944.7167-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org \
    --to=takahiro.akashi@linaro.org \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).