[PATCH 08/11] arm64: kdump: exclude no-dump reserved memory regions from vmcore

Chen Wandun
2026-04-29T07:00:03Z

Exclude reserved memory regions marked with the linux,no-dump property
from the elfcorehdr PT_LOAD segments when preparing kdump vmcore.

Device firmware memory regions (e.g., GPU, DSP, modem) reserved via
the device tree typically contain data that is not useful for kernel
crash analysis and can significantly increase vmcore size. By honoring
the no_dump flag in the reserved_mem array, these regions are filtered
out from the crash dump, resulting in smaller and more focused vmcore
files.

Use the common of_reserved_mem_exclude_no_dump() helper to perform the
exclusion, and pre-size the crash_mem array via
of_reserved_mem_no_dump_nr_ranges().

Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@lixiang.com>
Tested-by: Zhao Meijing <zhaomeijing@lixiang.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index e31fabed378a..7c9c38096c60 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
+#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
nr_ranges++;
+ nr_ranges += of_reserved_mem_no_dump_nr_ranges();

cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
if (!cmem)
@@ -75,6 +77,10 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
goto out;
}

+ ret = of_reserved_mem_exclude_no_dump(cmem);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);

out:
--
2.43.0