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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:32:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Wandun Chen To: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, chenhuacai@kernel.org, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, saravanak@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, baoquan.he@linux.dev, rppt@kernel.org, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, kernel@xen0n.name, alex@ghiti.fr, hpa@zytor.com, 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 v6 06/10] memblock: introduce MEMBLOCK_NODUMP flag Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:31:12 +0800 Message-ID: <20260902073116.802752-7-chenwandun1@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260902073116.802752-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com> References: <20260902073116.802752-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: loongarch@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Wandun Chen Add MEMBLOCK_NODUMP to mark regions that should be excluded from kdump vmcores. The flag is meant for reserved memory that carries no data useful for crash analysis. Reusable reserved regions such as CMA may hold useful data, so these regions must not be marked MEMBLOCK_NODUMP. Subsequent patches wire this up for /reserved-memory and /memreserve/ entries. Suggested-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Wandun Chen Tested-by: Meijing Zhao --- include/linux/memblock.h | 9 +++++++++ mm/memblock.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h index d62db9e776cf..b2fcf11fba2b 100644 --- a/include/linux/memblock.h +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ extern unsigned long long max_possible_pfn; * kernel that we know is good to use. It is the only memory that * allocations may happen from in this phase. * @MEMBLOCK_RSRV_HUGETLB: memory is reserved for hugetlb pages + * @MEMBLOCK_NODUMP: exclude from kdump vmcore. It carries no data useful + * for crash analysis (e.g. firmware carveouts). */ enum memblock_flags { MEMBLOCK_NONE = 0x0, /* No special request */ @@ -63,6 +65,7 @@ enum memblock_flags { MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN = 0x20, /* memory reserved for kernel use */ MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH = 0x40, /* scratch memory for kexec handover */ MEMBLOCK_RSRV_HUGETLB = 0x80, /* memory reserved for hugetlb pages */ + MEMBLOCK_NODUMP = 0x100,/* exclude from kdump vmcore */ }; /** @@ -160,6 +163,7 @@ int memblock_reserved_mark_noinit(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_reserved_mark_kern(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_mark_kho_scratch(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_clear_kho_scratch(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); +int memblock_mark_nodump(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); void memblock_free(void *ptr, size_t size); void reset_all_zones_managed_pages(void); @@ -306,6 +310,11 @@ static inline bool memblock_is_kho_scratch(struct memblock_region *m) return m->flags & MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH; } +static inline bool memblock_is_nodump(struct memblock_region *m) +{ + return m->flags & MEMBLOCK_NODUMP; +} + int memblock_search_pfn_nid(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long *start_pfn, unsigned long *end_pfn); void __next_mem_pfn_range(int *idx, int nid, unsigned long *out_start_pfn, diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c index f2952d725c10..2e87f39826dd 100644 --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -1204,6 +1204,21 @@ __init int memblock_clear_kho_scratch(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size) MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH); } +/** + * memblock_mark_nodump - Mark a memory region with flag MEMBLOCK_NODUMP. + * @base: the base phys addr of the region + * @size: the size of the region + * + * Mark the region as not to be included in crash dumps. + * + * Return: 0 on success, -errno on failure. + */ +int __init_memblock memblock_mark_nodump(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size) +{ + return memblock_setclr_flag(&memblock.memory, base, size, 1, + MEMBLOCK_NODUMP); +} + static bool should_skip_region(struct memblock_type *type, struct memblock_region *m, int nid, int flags) @@ -2887,6 +2902,7 @@ static const char * const flagname[] = { [ilog2(MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN)] = "RSV_KERN", [ilog2(MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH)] = "KHO_SCRATCH", [ilog2(MEMBLOCK_RSRV_HUGETLB)] = "RSV_HUGETLB", + [ilog2(MEMBLOCK_NODUMP)] = "NODUMP", }; static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private) -- 2.43.0