* [PATCH v12 01/15] riscv: kexec_file: Fix crashk_low_res not exclude bug
2026-04-02 7:26 [PATCH v12 00/15] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation Jinjie Ruan
@ 2026-04-02 7:26 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02 7:26 ` [PATCH v12 02/15] powerpc/crash: Fix possible memory leak in update_crash_elfcorehdr() Jinjie Ruan
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
As done in commit 944a45abfabc ("arm64: kdump: Reimplement crashkernel=X")
and commit 4831be702b95 ("arm64/kexec: Fix missing extra range for
crashkres_low.") for arm64, while implementing crashkernel=X,[high,low],
riscv should have excluded the "crashk_low_res" reserved ranges from
the crash kernel memory to prevent them from being exported through
/proc/vmcore, and the exclusion would need an extra crash_mem range.
Just simply tested on qemu with crashkernel=4G with kexec in [1] mentioned
in [2]. And the second kernel can be started normally.
# dmesg | grep crash
[ 0.000000] crashkernel low memory reserved: 0xf8000000 - 0x100000000 (128 MB)
[ 0.000000] crashkernel reserved: 0x000000017fe00000 - 0x000000027fe00000 (4096 MB)
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
[1]: https://github.com/chenjh005/kexec-tools/tree/build-test-riscv-v2
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230726175000.2536220-1-chenjiahao16@huawei.com/
Fixes: 5882e5acf18d ("riscv: kdump: Implement crashkernel=X,[high,low]")
Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 54e2d9552e93..3f7766057cac 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
unsigned int nr_ranges;
int ret;
- nr_ranges = 1; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
+ nr_ranges = 2; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
@@ -76,8 +76,16 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
/* Exclude crashkernel region */
ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
- if (!ret)
- ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (crashk_low_res.end) {
+ ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
out:
kfree(cmem);
--
2.34.1
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2026-04-02 10:57 ` Sourabh Jain
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
In get_crash_memory_ranges(), if crash_exclude_mem_range() failed
after realloc_mem_ranges() has successfully allocated the cmem
memory, it just returns an error but leaves cmem pointing to
the allocated memory, nor is it freed in the caller
update_crash_elfcorehdr(), which cause a memory leak, goto out
to free the cmem.
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fixes: 849599b702ef ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
index a325c1c02f96..1d12cef8e1e0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
ret = get_crash_memory_ranges(&cmem);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Failed to get crash mem range\n");
- return;
+ goto out;
}
/*
--
2.34.1
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@ 2026-04-02 10:57 ` Sourabh Jain
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From: Sourabh Jain @ 2026-04-02 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jinjie Ruan, corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai,
kernel, maddy, mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex,
tglx, mingo, bp, dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe,
vgoyal, dyoung, rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang,
dapeng1.mi, kees, elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb,
jbohac, cfsworks, tangyouling, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames,
guoren, songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu,
coxu, fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
On 02/04/26 12:56, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> In get_crash_memory_ranges(), if crash_exclude_mem_range() failed
> after realloc_mem_ranges() has successfully allocated the cmem
> memory, it just returns an error but leaves cmem pointing to
> the allocated memory, nor is it freed in the caller
> update_crash_elfcorehdr(), which cause a memory leak, goto out
> to free the cmem.
>
> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Fixes: 849599b702ef ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> index a325c1c02f96..1d12cef8e1e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
> ret = get_crash_memory_ranges(&cmem);
> if (ret) {
> pr_err("Failed to get crash mem range\n");
> - return;
> + goto out;
> }
>
> /*
Thanks for fixing this Jinjie.
Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
- Sourabh Jain
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* [PATCH v12 03/15] x86/kexec: Fix potential buffer overflow in prepare_elf_headers()
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2026-04-02 7:26 ` [PATCH v12 02/15] powerpc/crash: Fix possible memory leak in update_crash_elfcorehdr() Jinjie Ruan
@ 2026-04-02 7:26 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02 7:26 ` [PATCH v12 04/15] arm64: kexec_file: " Jinjie Ruan
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
There is a race condition between the kexec_load() system call
(crash kernel loading path) and memory hotplug operations that can lead
to buffer overflow and potential kernel crash.
During prepare_elf_headers(), the following steps occur:
1. get_nr_ram_ranges_callback() queries current System RAM memory ranges
2. Allocates buffer based on queried count
3. prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback() populates ranges from memblock
If memory hotplug occurs between step 1 and step 3, the number of ranges
can increase, causing out-of-bounds write when populating cmem->ranges[].
This happens because kexec_load() uses kexec_trylock (atomic_t) while
memory hotplug uses device_hotplug_lock (mutex), so they don't serialize
with each other.
Just add bounds checking in prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback() to
prevent out-of-bounds (OOB) access,
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Fixes: 8d5f894a3108 ("x86: kexec_file: lift CRASH_MAX_RANGES limit on crash_mem buffer")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 335fd2ee9766..7fa6d45ebe3f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
{
struct crash_mem *cmem = arg;
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = res->start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = res->end;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
--
2.34.1
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
There is a race condition between the kexec_load() system call
(crash kernel loading path) and memory hotplug operations that can lead
to buffer overflow and potential kernel crash.
During prepare_elf_headers(), the following steps occur:
1. The first for_each_mem_range() queries current System RAM memory ranges
2. Allocates buffer based on queried count
3. The 2st for_each_mem_range() populates ranges from memblock
If memory hotplug occurs between step 1 and step 3, the number of ranges
can increase, causing out-of-bounds write when populating cmem->ranges[].
This happens because kexec_load() uses kexec_trylock (atomic_t) while
memory hotplug uses device_hotplug_lock (mutex), so they don't serialize
with each other.
Just add bounds checking to prevent out-of-bounds access.
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fixes: 3751e728cef2 ("arm64: kexec_file: add crash dump support")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index fba260ad87a9..df52ac4474c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
--
2.34.1
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
There is a race condition between the kexec_load() system call
(crash kernel loading path) and memory hotplug operations that can lead
to buffer overflow and potential kernel crash.
During prepare_elf_headers(), the following steps occur:
1. get_nr_ram_ranges_callback() queries current System RAM memory ranges
2. Allocates buffer based on queried count
3. prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback() populates ranges from memblock
If memory hotplug occurs between step 1 and step 3, the number of ranges
can increase, causing out-of-bounds write when populating cmem->ranges[].
This happens because kexec_load() uses kexec_trylock (atomic_t) while
memory hotplug uses device_hotplug_lock (mutex), so they don't serialize
with each other.
Just add bounds checking in prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback() to prevent
out-of-bounds (OOB) access.
Fixes: 8acea455fafa ("RISC-V: Support for kexec_file on panic")
Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 3f7766057cac..773a1cba8ba0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
{
struct crash_mem *cmem = arg;
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = res->start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = res->end;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
--
2.34.1
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
There is a race condition between the kexec_load() system call
(crash kernel loading path) and memory hotplug operations that can lead
to buffer overflow and potential kernel crash.
During prepare_elf_headers(), the following steps occur:
1. The first for_each_mem_range() queries current System RAM memory ranges
2. Allocates buffer based on queried count
3. The 2st for_each_mem_range() populates ranges from memblock
If memory hotplug occurs between step 1 and step 3, the number of ranges
can increase, causing out-of-bounds write when populating cmem->ranges[].
This happens because kexec_load() uses kexec_trylock (atomic_t) while
memory hotplug uses device_hotplug_lock (mutex), so they don't serialize
with each other.
Just add bounds checking to prevent out-of-bounds access.
Cc: Youling Tang <tangyouling@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Fixes: 1bcca8620a91 ("LoongArch: Add crash dump support for kexec_file")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 5584b798ba46..167392c1da33 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
--
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
During a memory hot-remove event, the elfcorehdr is rebuilt to exclude
the removed memory. While updating the crash memory ranges for this
operation, the crash memory ranges array can become unsorted. This
happens because remove_mem_range() may split a memory range into two
parts and append the higher-address part as a separate range at the end
of the array.
So far, no issues have been observed due to the unsorted crash memory
ranges. However, this could lead to problems once crash memory range
removal is handled by generic code, as introduced in the upcoming
patches in this series.
Currently, powerpc uses a platform-specific function,
remove_mem_range(), to exclude hot-removed memory from the crash memory
ranges. This function performs the same task as the generic
crash_exclude_mem_range() in crash_core.c. The generic helper also
ensures that the crash memory ranges remain sorted. So remove the
redundant powerpc-specific implementation and instead call
crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded() (which internally calls
crash_exclude_mem_range()) to exclude the hot-removed memory ranges.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 5 +-
arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c | 87 +------------------------
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
index 14055896cbcb..ad95e3792d10 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
void sort_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem *mrngs, bool merge);
struct crash_mem *realloc_mem_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int add_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges, u64 base, u64 size);
-int remove_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges, u64 base, u64 size);
+int crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
+ unsigned long long mstart,
+ unsigned long long mend);
int get_exclude_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int get_reserved_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
index 1d12cef8e1e0..1426d2099bad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
struct crash_mem *cmem = NULL;
struct kexec_segment *ksegment;
void *ptr, *mem, *elfbuf = NULL;
- unsigned long elfsz, memsz, base_addr, size;
+ unsigned long elfsz, memsz, base_addr, size, end;
ksegment = &image->segment[image->elfcorehdr_index];
mem = (void *) ksegment->mem;
@@ -450,7 +450,8 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
if (image->hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_MEMORY) {
base_addr = PFN_PHYS(mn->start_pfn);
size = mn->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
- ret = remove_mem_range(&cmem, base_addr, size);
+ end = base_addr + size - 1;
+ ret = crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(&cmem, base_addr, end);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Failed to remove hot-unplugged memory from crash memory ranges\n");
goto out;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
index 867135560e5c..6c58bcc3e130 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ int get_usable_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges)
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-static int crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
+int crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
unsigned long long mstart,
unsigned long long mend)
{
@@ -641,89 +641,4 @@ int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges)
pr_err("Failed to setup crash memory ranges\n");
return ret;
}
-
-/**
- * remove_mem_range - Removes the given memory range from the range list.
- * @mem_ranges: Range list to remove the memory range to.
- * @base: Base address of the range to remove.
- * @size: Size of the memory range to remove.
- *
- * (Re)allocates memory, if needed.
- *
- * Returns 0 on success, negative errno on error.
- */
-int remove_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges, u64 base, u64 size)
-{
- u64 end;
- int ret = 0;
- unsigned int i;
- u64 mstart, mend;
- struct crash_mem *mem_rngs = *mem_ranges;
-
- if (!size)
- return 0;
-
- /*
- * Memory range are stored as start and end address, use
- * the same format to do remove operation.
- */
- end = base + size - 1;
-
- for (i = 0; i < mem_rngs->nr_ranges; i++) {
- mstart = mem_rngs->ranges[i].start;
- mend = mem_rngs->ranges[i].end;
-
- /*
- * Memory range to remove is not part of this range entry
- * in the memory range list
- */
- if (!(base >= mstart && end <= mend))
- continue;
-
- /*
- * Memory range to remove is equivalent to this entry in the
- * memory range list. Remove the range entry from the list.
- */
- if (base == mstart && end == mend) {
- for (; i < mem_rngs->nr_ranges - 1; i++) {
- mem_rngs->ranges[i].start = mem_rngs->ranges[i+1].start;
- mem_rngs->ranges[i].end = mem_rngs->ranges[i+1].end;
- }
- mem_rngs->nr_ranges--;
- goto out;
- }
- /*
- * Start address of the memory range to remove and the
- * current memory range entry in the list is same. Just
- * move the start address of the current memory range
- * entry in the list to end + 1.
- */
- else if (base == mstart) {
- mem_rngs->ranges[i].start = end + 1;
- goto out;
- }
- /*
- * End address of the memory range to remove and the
- * current memory range entry in the list is same.
- * Just move the end address of the current memory
- * range entry in the list to base - 1.
- */
- else if (end == mend) {
- mem_rngs->ranges[i].end = base - 1;
- goto out;
- }
- /*
- * Memory range to remove is not at the edge of current
- * memory range entry. Split the current memory entry into
- * two half.
- */
- else {
- size = mem_rngs->ranges[i].end - end + 1;
- mem_rngs->ranges[i].end = base - 1;
- ret = add_mem_range(mem_ranges, end + 1, size);
- }
- }
-out:
- return ret;
-}
#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
--
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
The crash memory alloc, and the exclude of crashk_res, crashk_low_res
and crashk_cma memory are almost identical across different architectures,
handling them in the crash core would eliminate a lot of duplication, so
add crash_prepare_headers() helper to handle them in the common code.
To achieve the above goal, three architecture-specific functions are
introduced:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Pre-counts the max number of memory ranges.
- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Collects the memory ranges and fills them
into cmem.
- arch_crash_exclude_ranges(). Architecture's additional crash memory
ranges exclusion, defaulting to empty.
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
include/linux/crash_core.h | 5 +++
kernel/crash_core.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index d35726d6a415..033b20204aca 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ extern int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem,
unsigned long long mend);
extern int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
void **addr, unsigned long *sz);
+extern int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr,
+ unsigned long *sz, unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges);
struct kimage;
struct kexec_segment;
@@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p);
int kexec_crash_loaded(void);
void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu);
extern int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image);
+extern unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void);
+extern int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem);
+extern int arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem);
#else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP*/
struct pt_regs;
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 2c1a3791e410..96a96e511f5a 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -170,9 +170,6 @@ static inline resource_size_t crash_resource_size(const struct resource *res)
return !res->end ? 0 : resource_size(res);
}
-
-
-
int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
{
@@ -274,6 +271,85 @@ int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
return 0;
}
+static struct crash_mem *alloc_cmem(unsigned int nr_ranges)
+{
+ struct crash_mem *cmem;
+
+ cmem = kvzalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
+ if (!cmem)
+ return NULL;
+
+ cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
+ return cmem;
+}
+
+unsigned int __weak arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void) { return 0; }
+int __weak arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return -1; }
+int __weak arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return 0; }
+
+static int crash_exclude_core_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+ int ret, i;
+
+ /* Exclude crashkernel region */
+ ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (crashk_low_res.end) {
+ ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
+ ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
+ crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr, unsigned long *sz,
+ unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges)
+{
+ unsigned int max_nr_ranges;
+ struct crash_mem *cmem;
+ int ret;
+
+ max_nr_ranges = arch_get_system_nr_ranges();
+ if (!max_nr_ranges)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ cmem = alloc_cmem(max_nr_ranges);
+ if (!cmem)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ret = arch_crash_populate_cmem(cmem);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ ret = crash_exclude_core_ranges(cmem);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ ret = arch_crash_exclude_ranges(cmem);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ /* Return the computed number of memory ranges, for hotplug usage */
+ if (nr_mem_ranges)
+ *nr_mem_ranges = cmem->nr_ranges;
+
+ ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, need_kernel_map, addr, sz);
+
+out:
+ kvfree(cmem);
+ return ret;
+}
+
/**
* crash_exclude_mem_range - exclude a mem range for existing ranges
* @mem: mem->range contains an array of ranges sorted in ascending order
--
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
Use the newly introduced crash_prepare_headers() function to replace
the existing prepare_elf_headers(), allocate cmem and exclude crash
kernel memory in the crash core, which reduce code duplication.
Only the following two architecture functions need to be implemented:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Use for_each_mem_range() to traverse
and pre-count the max number of memory ranges.
- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Use for_each_mem_range to traverse
and collect the memory ranges and fills them into cmem.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 46 ++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index df52ac4474c9..558408f403b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -40,51 +40,33 @@ int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
{
- struct crash_mem *cmem;
- unsigned int nr_ranges;
- int ret;
- u64 i;
+ unsigned int nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
phys_addr_t start, end;
+ u64 i;
- nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
nr_ranges++;
- cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
- if (!cmem)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return nr_ranges;
+}
+
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+ phys_addr_t start, end;
+ u64 i;
- cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
- cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
- if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges)
+ return -ENOMEM;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
}
- /* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- if (crashk_low_res.end) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- }
-
- ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
- kfree(cmem);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
#endif
@@ -114,7 +96,7 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
void *headers;
unsigned long headers_sz;
if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
- ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+ ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
goto out_err;
--
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
Use the newly introduced crash_prepare_headers() function to replace
the existing prepare_elf_headers(), allocate cmem and exclude crash kernel
memory in the crash core, which reduce code duplication.
Only the following three architecture functions need to be implemented:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Call get_nr_ram_ranges_callback()
to pre-count the max number of memory ranges.
- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Use prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback()
to collect the memory ranges and fills them into cmem.
- arch_crash_exclude_ranges(). Exclude the low 1M for x86.
By the way, remove the unused "nr_mem_ranges" in
arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event().
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 89 +++++------------------------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 7fa6d45ebe3f..10ef24611f2a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -152,16 +152,8 @@ static int get_nr_ram_ranges_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
return 0;
}
-/* Gather all the required information to prepare elf headers for ram regions */
-static struct crash_mem *fill_up_crash_elf_data(void)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
{
- unsigned int nr_ranges = 0;
- struct crash_mem *cmem;
-
- walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
- if (!nr_ranges)
- return NULL;
-
/*
* Exclusion of crash region, crashk_low_res and/or crashk_cma_ranges
* may cause range splits. So add extra slots here.
@@ -176,49 +168,16 @@ static struct crash_mem *fill_up_crash_elf_data(void)
* But in order to lest the low 1M could be changed in the future,
* (e.g. [start, 1M]), add a extra slot.
*/
- nr_ranges += 3 + crashk_cma_cnt;
- cmem = vzalloc(struct_size(cmem, ranges, nr_ranges));
- if (!cmem)
- return NULL;
-
- cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
+ unsigned int nr_ranges = 3 + crashk_cma_cnt;
- return cmem;
+ walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
+ return nr_ranges;
}
-/*
- * Look for any unwanted ranges between mstart, mend and remove them. This
- * might lead to split and split ranges are put in cmem->ranges[] array
- */
-static int elf_header_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+int arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
{
- int ret = 0;
- int i;
-
/* Exclude the low 1M because it is always reserved */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, 0, SZ_1M - 1);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- /* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- if (crashk_low_res.end)
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start,
- crashk_low_res.end);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
- crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
- return 0;
+ return crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, 0, SZ_1M - 1);
}
static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
@@ -235,35 +194,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
return 0;
}
-/* Prepare elf headers. Return addr and size */
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz,
- unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges)
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
{
- struct crash_mem *cmem;
- int ret;
-
- cmem = fill_up_crash_elf_data();
- if (!cmem)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- ret = walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- /* Exclude unwanted mem ranges */
- ret = elf_header_exclude_ranges(cmem);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- /* Return the computed number of memory ranges, for hotplug usage */
- *nr_mem_ranges = cmem->nr_ranges;
-
- /* By default prepare 64bit headers */
- ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), addr, sz);
-
-out:
- vfree(cmem);
- return ret;
+ return walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
}
#endif
@@ -421,7 +354,8 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
.buf_max = ULONG_MAX, .top_down = false };
/* Prepare elf headers and add a segment */
- ret = prepare_elf_headers(&kbuf.buffer, &kbuf.bufsz, &pnum);
+ ret = crash_prepare_headers(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), &kbuf.buffer,
+ &kbuf.bufsz, &pnum);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -514,7 +448,6 @@ unsigned int arch_crash_get_elfcorehdr_size(void)
void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg)
{
void *elfbuf = NULL, *old_elfcorehdr;
- unsigned long nr_mem_ranges;
unsigned long mem, memsz;
unsigned long elfsz = 0;
@@ -532,7 +465,7 @@ void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg)
* Create the new elfcorehdr reflecting the changes to CPU and/or
* memory resources.
*/
- if (prepare_elf_headers(&elfbuf, &elfsz, &nr_mem_ranges)) {
+ if (crash_prepare_headers(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), &elfbuf, &elfsz, NULL)) {
pr_err("unable to create new elfcorehdr");
goto out;
}
--
2.34.1
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
Use the newly introduced crash_prepare_headers() function to replace
the existing prepare_elf_headers(), allocate cmem and exclude crash kernel
memory in the crash core, which reduce code duplication.
Only the following two architecture functions need to be implemented:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Call get_nr_ram_ranges_callback()
to pre-counts the max number of memory ranges.
- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Use prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback()
to collects the memory ranges and fills them into cmem.
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 47 +++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 773a1cba8ba0..bea818f75dd6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ static int get_nr_ram_ranges_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
return 0;
}
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
+{
+ unsigned int nr_ranges = 2; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
+
+ walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
+
+ return nr_ranges;
+}
+
static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
{
struct crash_mem *cmem = arg;
@@ -58,41 +67,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
return 0;
}
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
{
- struct crash_mem *cmem;
- unsigned int nr_ranges;
- int ret;
-
- nr_ranges = 2; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
- walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
-
- cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
- if (!cmem)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
- cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
- ret = walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- /* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- if (crashk_low_res.end) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- }
-
- ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
- kfree(cmem);
- return ret;
+ return walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
}
static char *setup_kdump_cmdline(struct kimage *image, char *cmdline,
@@ -284,7 +261,7 @@ int load_extra_segments(struct kimage *image, unsigned long kernel_start,
if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
void *headers;
unsigned long headers_sz;
- ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+ ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
goto out;
--
2.34.1
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
Use the newly introduced crash_prepare_headers() function to replace
the existing prepare_elf_headers(), allocate cmem and exclude crash kernel
memory in the crash core, which reduce code duplication.
Only the following two architecture functions need to be implemented:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Use for_each_mem_range to traverse
and pre-count the max number of memory ranges.
- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Use for_each_mem_range to traverse
and collect the memory ranges and fills them into cmem.
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 46 +++++++---------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 167392c1da33..3d0386ee18ef 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -56,51 +56,33 @@ static void cmdline_add_initrd(struct kimage *image, unsigned long *cmdline_tmpl
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
{
- int ret, nr_ranges;
- uint64_t i;
+ int nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
phys_addr_t start, end;
- struct crash_mem *cmem;
+ uint64_t i;
- nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
nr_ranges++;
- cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
- if (!cmem)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return nr_ranges;
+}
+
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+ phys_addr_t start, end;
+ uint64_t i;
- cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
- cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
- if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (cmem->nr_ranges >= cmem->max_nr_ranges)
+ return -ENOMEM;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
cmem->nr_ranges++;
}
- /* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out;
-
- if (crashk_low_res.end) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out;
- }
-
- ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
- kfree(cmem);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
/*
@@ -168,7 +150,7 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
void *headers;
unsigned long headers_sz;
- ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+ ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
if (ret < 0) {
pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
goto out_err;
--
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
The crash memory exclude of crashk_res and crashk_cma memory on powerpc
are almost identical to the generic crash_exclude_core_ranges().
By introducing the architecture-specific arch_crash_exclude_mem_range()
function with a default implementation of crash_exclude_mem_range(),
and using crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded as powerpc's separate
implementation, the generic crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper function
can be reused.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h | 3 ---
arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c | 16 ++++------------
include/linux/crash_core.h | 4 ++++
kernel/crash_core.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
index ad95e3792d10..8489e844b447 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec_ranges.h
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
void sort_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem *mrngs, bool merge);
struct crash_mem *realloc_mem_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int add_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges, u64 base, u64 size);
-int crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
- unsigned long long mstart,
- unsigned long long mend);
int get_exclude_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int get_reserved_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
index 1426d2099bad..52992309e28c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
base_addr = PFN_PHYS(mn->start_pfn);
size = mn->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
end = base_addr + size - 1;
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(&cmem, base_addr, end);
+ ret = arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(&cmem, base_addr, end);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Failed to remove hot-unplugged memory from crash memory ranges\n");
goto out;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
index 6c58bcc3e130..e5fea23b191b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c
@@ -553,9 +553,9 @@ int get_usable_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges)
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-int crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
- unsigned long long mstart,
- unsigned long long mend)
+int arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges,
+ unsigned long long mstart,
+ unsigned long long mend)
{
struct crash_mem *tmem = *mem_ranges;
@@ -604,18 +604,10 @@ int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges)
sort_memory_ranges(*mem_ranges, true);
}
- /* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(mem_ranges, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
+ ret = crash_exclude_core_ranges(mem_ranges);
if (ret)
goto out;
- for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded(mem_ranges, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
- crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- }
-
/*
* FIXME: For now, stay in parity with kexec-tools but if RTAS/OPAL
* regions are exported to save their context at the time of
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 033b20204aca..dbec826dc53b 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ extern int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_ma
void **addr, unsigned long *sz);
extern int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr,
unsigned long *sz, unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges);
+extern int crash_exclude_core_ranges(struct crash_mem **cmem);
struct kimage;
struct kexec_segment;
@@ -88,6 +89,9 @@ extern int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image);
extern unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void);
extern int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem);
extern int arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem);
+extern int arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem,
+ unsigned long long mstart,
+ unsigned long long mend);
#else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP*/
struct pt_regs;
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 96a96e511f5a..300d44ad5471 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -287,24 +287,31 @@ unsigned int __weak arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void) { return 0; }
int __weak arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return -1; }
int __weak arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return 0; }
-static int crash_exclude_core_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+int __weak arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem **mem,
+ unsigned long long mstart,
+ unsigned long long mend)
+{
+ return crash_exclude_mem_range(*mem, mstart, mend);
+}
+
+int crash_exclude_core_ranges(struct crash_mem **cmem)
{
int ret, i;
/* Exclude crashkernel region */
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
+ ret = arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (crashk_low_res.end) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
+ ret = arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
- ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
- crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
+ ret = arch_crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
+ crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
@@ -331,7 +338,7 @@ int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr, unsigned long *sz,
if (ret)
goto out;
- ret = crash_exclude_core_ranges(cmem);
+ ret = crash_exclude_core_ranges(&cmem);
if (ret)
goto out;
--
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2026-04-02 7:27 ` [PATCH v12 15/15] riscv: " Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02 11:31 ` [PATCH v12 00/15] arm64/riscv: " Borislav Petkov
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From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
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.
Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
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 +++++++++
include/linux/crash_reserve.h | 4 +++-
6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 03a550630644..a7055cead40f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ 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 558408f403b5..a8fe7e65ef75 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 */
phys_addr_t start, end;
u64 i;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 96711b8578fd..144e30fe9a75 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ phys_addr_t __ro_after_init arm64_dma_phys_limit;
static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
{
+ unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size, cma_size = 0;
unsigned long long low_size = 0;
- unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
bool high = false;
int ret;
@@ -106,11 +106,12 @@ static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
&crash_size, &crash_base,
- &low_size, NULL, &high);
+ &low_size, &cma_size, &high);
if (ret)
return;
reserve_crashkernel_generic(crash_size, crash_base, low_size, high);
+ reserve_crashkernel_cma(cma_size);
}
static phys_addr_t __init max_zone_phys(phys_addr_t zone_limit)
diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 331646d667b9..0cbfc37ad39a 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -871,11 +871,12 @@ static unsigned long chosen_node_offset = -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND;
/*
* The main usage of linux,usable-memory-range is for crash dump kernel.
* Originally, the number of usable-memory regions is one. Now there may
- * be two regions, low region and high region.
- * To make compatibility with existing user-space and older kdump, the low
- * region is always the last range of linux,usable-memory-range if exist.
+ * be 2 + CRASHK_CMA_RANGES_MAX regions, low region, high region and cma
+ * regions. To make compatibility with existing user-space and older kdump,
+ * the high and low region are always the first two ranges of
+ * linux,usable-memory-range if exist.
*/
-#define MAX_USABLE_RANGES 2
+#define MAX_USABLE_RANGES (2 + CRASHK_CMA_RANGES_MAX)
/**
* early_init_dt_check_for_usable_mem_range - Decode usable memory range
diff --git a/drivers/of/kexec.c b/drivers/of/kexec.c
index c4cf3552c018..57950aae80e7 100644
--- a/drivers/of/kexec.c
+++ b/drivers/of/kexec.c
@@ -439,6 +439,15 @@ void *of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt(const struct kimage *image,
if (ret)
goto out;
}
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; i++) {
+ ret = fdt_appendprop_addrrange(fdt, 0, chosen_node,
+ "linux,usable-memory-range",
+ crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
+ crashk_cma_ranges[i].end - crashk_cma_ranges[i].start + 1);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
#endif
}
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_reserve.h b/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
index f0dc03d94ca2..30864d90d7f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@
extern struct resource crashk_res;
extern struct resource crashk_low_res;
extern struct range crashk_cma_ranges[];
+
+#define CRASHK_CMA_RANGES_MAX 4
#if defined(CONFIG_CMA) && defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION)
#define CRASHKERNEL_CMA
-#define CRASHKERNEL_CMA_RANGES_MAX 4
+#define CRASHKERNEL_CMA_RANGES_MAX (CRASHK_CMA_RANGES_MAX)
extern int crashk_cma_cnt;
#else
#define crashk_cma_cnt 0
--
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@ 2026-04-02 7:27 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02 11:31 ` [PATCH v12 00/15] arm64/riscv: " Borislav Petkov
15 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo, bp,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
Cc: ruanjinjie
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. This allows the kernel to dynamically allocate
contiguous memory for crash dumping when needed, rather than permanently
reserving a fixed region at boot time.
So extend crashkernel CMA reservation support to riscv. 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, which was
already done in of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt().
- Exclude the CMA-reserved ranges from the crash kernel memory to
prevent them from being exported through /proc/vmcore, which was
already done in the crash core.
Update kernel-parameters.txt to document CMA support for crashkernel on
riscv architecture.
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org> # arch/riscv
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++++++++--------
arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 2 +-
arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a7055cead40f..13ced9ea42f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1122,14 +1122,14 @@ 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, 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
- will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
- be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
- it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
- may be missing from the dump.
+ [KNL, X86, ARM64, RISCV, 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 will not be included in the vmcore
+ so this should not be used if dumping of userspace memory
+ is intended and it has to be expected that some movable
+ kernel pages may be missing from the dump.
A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index bea818f75dd6..c79cd86d5713 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int get_nr_ram_ranges_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
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 */
walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 811e03786c56..4cd49afa9077 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ static inline void setup_vm_final(void)
*/
static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
{
- unsigned long long low_size = 0;
+ unsigned long long low_size = 0, cma_size = 0;
unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
bool high = false;
int ret;
@@ -1408,11 +1408,12 @@ static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
&crash_size, &crash_base,
- &low_size, NULL, &high);
+ &low_size, &cma_size, &high);
if (ret)
return;
reserve_crashkernel_generic(crash_size, crash_base, low_size, high);
+ reserve_crashkernel_cma(cma_size);
}
void __init paging_init(void)
--
2.34.1
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2026-04-02 7:27 ` [PATCH v12 15/15] riscv: " Jinjie Ruan
@ 2026-04-02 11:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-04-02 11:47 ` Jinjie Ruan
15 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Borislav Petkov @ 2026-04-02 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jinjie Ruan
Cc: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 03:26:46PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> The crash memory allocation, and the exclude of crashk_res, crashk_low_res
> and crashk_cma memory are almost identical across different architectures,
> This patch set handle them in crash core in a general way, which eliminate
> a lot of duplication code.
From: Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
"Don't get discouraged - or impatient
------------------------------------
After you have submitted your change, be patient and wait. Reviewers are
busy people and may not get to your patch right away.
Once upon a time, patches used to disappear into the void without comment,
but the development process works more smoothly than that now. You should
receive comments within a week or so; if that does not happen, make sure
that you have sent your patches to the right place. Wait for a minimum of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
one week before resubmitting or pinging reviewers - possibly longer during
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
busy times like merge windows."
You need to be patient and send once a week and not spam people:
Feb 04 Jinjie Ruan ( :1.0K|) [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Feb 09 Jinjie Ruan ( :1.5K|) [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Feb 12 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.1K|) [PATCH v5 0/4] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Feb 24 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.3K|) [PATCH v6 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Feb 26 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.5K|) [PATCH v7 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Mar 02 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.8K|) [PATCH v8 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Mar 23 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.9K|) [PATCH v9 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Mar 25 Jinjie Ruan ( :3.7K|) [PATCH v10 0/8] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
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--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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@ 2026-04-02 11:47 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-02 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Borislav Petkov
Cc: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
On 2026/4/2 19:31, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 03:26:46PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> The crash memory allocation, and the exclude of crashk_res, crashk_low_res
>> and crashk_cma memory are almost identical across different architectures,
>> This patch set handle them in crash core in a general way, which eliminate
>> a lot of duplication code.
>
> From: Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>
> "Don't get discouraged - or impatient
> ------------------------------------
>
> After you have submitted your change, be patient and wait. Reviewers are
> busy people and may not get to your patch right away.
>
> Once upon a time, patches used to disappear into the void without comment,
> but the development process works more smoothly than that now. You should
> receive comments within a week or so; if that does not happen, make sure
> that you have sent your patches to the right place. Wait for a minimum of
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> one week before resubmitting or pinging reviewers - possibly longer during
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> busy times like merge windows."
>
> You need to be patient and send once a week and not spam people:
Thank you for the reminder and for your patience. I apologize for the
frequent updates; I am becoming more familiar with the community's
workflow. I will follow your advice, limit my follow-ups to once a week,
and avoid resending during busy periods like the merge window. I'll wait
for further feedback before taking the next step.
>
> Feb 04 Jinjie Ruan ( :1.0K|) [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Feb 09 Jinjie Ruan ( :1.5K|) [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Feb 12 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.1K|) [PATCH v5 0/4] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Feb 24 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.3K|) [PATCH v6 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Feb 26 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.5K|) [PATCH v7 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Mar 02 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.8K|) [PATCH v8 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Mar 23 Jinjie Ruan ( :2.9K|) [PATCH v9 0/5] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Mar 25 Jinjie Ruan ( :3.7K|) [PATCH v10 0/8] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Mar 28 Jinjie Ruan ( :4.3K|) [PATCH v11 00/11] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
> Apr 02 Jinjie Ruan ( :4.5K|) [PATCH v12 00/15] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
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* Re: [PATCH v12 00/15] arm64/riscv: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
2026-04-02 11:47 ` Jinjie Ruan
@ 2026-04-02 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-04-03 9:14 ` Jinjie Ruan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Borislav Petkov @ 2026-04-02 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jinjie Ruan
Cc: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo,
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 07:47:53PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> Thank you for the reminder and for your patience. I apologize for the
> frequent updates; I am becoming more familiar with the community's
> workflow.
Yap, and you can use that time while waiting to learn about it:
Documentation/process/
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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2026-04-02 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
@ 2026-04-03 9:14 ` Jinjie Ruan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Jinjie Ruan @ 2026-04-03 9:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Borislav Petkov
Cc: corbet, skhan, catalin.marinas, will, chenhuacai, kernel, maddy,
mpe, npiggin, chleroy, pjw, palmer, aou, alex, tglx, mingo,
dave.hansen, hpa, robh, saravanak, akpm, bhe, vgoyal, dyoung,
rdunlap, peterz, pawan.kumar.gupta, feng.tang, dapeng1.mi, kees,
elver, paulmck, lirongqing, rppt, leitao, ardb, jbohac, cfsworks,
tangyouling, sourabhjain, ritesh.list, hbathini, eajames, guoren,
songshuaishuai, kevin.brodsky, vishal.moola, junhui.liu, coxu,
fuqiang.wang, liaoyuanhong, takahiro.akashi, james.morse,
lizhengyu3, x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
loongarch, linuxppc-dev, linux-riscv, devicetree, kexec
On 2026/4/2 21:36, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 07:47:53PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> Thank you for the reminder and for your patience. I apologize for the
>> frequent updates; I am becoming more familiar with the community's
>> workflow.
>
> Yap, and you can use that time while waiting to learn about it:
Thanks for the pointer! I'm using the wait time to dive into the process
docs. Definitely a lot to learn about the workflow, but I'm getting there.
>
> Documentation/process/
>
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