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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intel.company.local ([122.11.210.25]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-8a0895e273bsm600653b3a.41.2026.10.21.01.30.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:30:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Wandun Chen To: robh@kernel.org, baoquan.he@linux.dev, rppt@kernel.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, chenhuacai@kernel.org, kernel@xen0n.name, 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, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, saravanak@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org, ruirui.yang@linux.dev, robin.murphy@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev Subject: [PATCH v9 0/8] kdump: reduce vmcore size and capture time Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:30:03 +0800 Message-ID: <20261021083011.2170525-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 X-Archived-By: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam08 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 68057120008 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Stat-Signature: koz7ymjj1bkyyorzr91dntug8fdgsna4 X-HE-Tag: 1792571431-578949 X-HE-Meta: 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 H7EoDd5C 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 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 From: Wandun Chen On SoCs that carve out large firmware-owned reserved memory (GPU, camera ISP, ...), kdump currently dumps those carveouts as part of system RAM even though their contents are firmware state that is not useful for kernel crash analysis. ACPI systems already filter reserved memory out of the vmcore through their existing path: firmware reports those carveouts as unusable in the EFI memory map, they get MEMBLOCK_NOMAP set in memblock.memory (is_usable_memory(), efi-init.c), and the ELF header builder has always skipped nomap regions; only DT-based systems currently fail to filter these regions, which is what this series addresses. This series introduces a MEMBLOCK_NODUMP flag (suggested by Rob) in memblock to filter reserved memory on DT-based architectures. A new flag is needed because MEMBLOCK_NOMAP can only express regions without a linear mapping, while MEMBLOCK_NODUMP can filter regions that are linearly mapped. Reserved regions are marked MEMBLOCK_NODUMP by default so kdump omits them; reusable CMA regions are different because their pages are handed back to the buddy allocator and may carry crash-relevant data. Since the reserved memory regions are filtered out, the vmcore is smaller in size and faster to produce. The series is based on linux-next and is organized as follows: Patches 1-3: Preparation and bugfixes: switch riscv crash_mem to memblock, fold the duplicated per-arch memblock walks into the weak defaults, and serialize crash header preparation against memory hotplug. Patches 4-7: NODUMP infrastructure: switch crash_core to for_each_mem_region(), introduce the MEMBLOCK_NODUMP flag, add a dumpable flag to struct reserved_mem, and mark /reserved-memory entries with MEMBLOCK_NODUMP. Patch 8: Skip MEMBLOCK_NODUMP regions when building the vmcore ELF header. v8 --> v9: 1. Patch 7: Avoid a potential boot panic on SH when NODUMP marking requires memblock resizing before it is allowed, found by Sashiko in [1]. SH supports neither CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE nor CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG, so skip marking when both are disabled. v6 --> v8 (v7 mainly tried to fix the initrd issue on release in v6, that approach is superseded here): 1. Stop marking /memreserve/ regions with NODUMP. v6 marked /memreserve/ regions with NODUMP. But a bootloader may specify a /memreserve/ entry for memory that the kernel later frees (e.g. the initrd), and those pages would then be wrongly filtered out of the vmcore after being reused as normal memory. The v7 fix (clearing the flag in free_reserved_area()) caused a lockless runtime mutation of memblock.memory [2]. Better solutions exist but need extra preparation, so temporarily dropped the patch that introduced the problem to keep this series simple in v8. 2. Fix a build failure in patch 2 with both ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK and MEMORY_HOTPLUG are unset. There the memblock arrays live in .init.data, and the weak defaults referencing them create section mismatches, which turn into build errors when SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY is also unset. 3. RISCV recently gained crash hotplug support, so adapt its handler like x86 in patch 3: use __crash_prepare_headers() instead of crash_prepare_headers() to avoid self-deadlock. 4. Update the cover letter per review feedback: describe how ACPI systems filter reserved memory and why a new flag is needed instead of reusing NOMAP. v6 --> v7: 1. Fix a stale MEMBLOCK_NODUMP flag issue [3]. Memory reserved and marked as NODUMP may later be freed (the initrd, for example), so the NODUMP flag must be cleared accordingly. Since the fix is part of the NODUMP infrastructure introduced by patch 5, it has been folded into that patch. 2. Drop the "generic" related description in the cover letter. 3. Collect the Acked-by and Reviewed-by tags received during the v6 review (thanks to Baoquan, Mike, Rob and Marek). Patch 5 is the only one without a tag, as its Reviewed-by was dropped when the fix was folded in. 4. Drop patch 1 of v6, which has been merged separately. v5 --> v6: 1. Serialize crash header preparation against memory hotplug to avoid out-of-bounds or use-after-free issues. 2. MEMBLOCK_NODUMP marking is now done after memblock allows resizing, avoiding a panic from too few regions before resize is permitted. 3. Reordered the patches, put pre-existing bugfixes earlier in the series. [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261016061549.4181390-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com?part=7 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260922090252.B01541F000FF@smtp.kernel.org/ [3] https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260917220750.GA4013814-robh%40kernel.org v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260806093519.2907771-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com/ v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260630074715.4126796-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com/ Wandun Chen (8): riscv: build crash_mem ranges from memblock instead of resource tree crash_core: fold duplicated memblock arch hooks into the weak default crash_core: serialize crash header preparation against hotplug crash_core: replace for_each_mem_range() with for_each_mem_region() memblock: introduce MEMBLOCK_NODUMP flag of: reserved_mem: add dumpable flag to opt-in vmcore of: reserved_mem: mark /reserved-memory entries with MEMBLOCK_NODUMP crash_core: skip MEMBLOCK_NODUMP regions when building vmcore ELF header arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 29 ------------ arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 27 ----------- arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/riscv/kernel/crash.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 33 -------------- arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 2 +- drivers/of/fdt.c | 1 + drivers/of/of_private.h | 1 + drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 18 ++++++++ include/linux/crash_core.h | 2 + include/linux/memblock.h | 9 ++++ include/linux/of_reserved_mem.h | 1 + kernel/crash_core.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 1 + mm/memblock.c | 16 +++++++ 15 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0