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| author | Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> | 2025-11-17 09:21:53 +0530 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-11-20 14:03:44 -0800 |
| commit | fdd76c8d6327e616ee61ddd00db16753d722168c (patch) | |
| tree | 73b8e5a7b007ddf791450c32f219742072ec85d8 | |
| parent | b1b72ac25f89125d91ef3abd257c3b88ec169962 (diff) | |
Documentation/ABI: add kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Add an ABI document for following kexec and kdump sysfs interface:
- /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded
- /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded
- /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size
- /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251117035153.1199665-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 43 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..96b24565b68e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a new kernel image has been loaded + into memory using the kexec system call. It shows 1 if + a kexec image is present and ready to boot, or 0 if none + is loaded. +User: kexec tools, kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a crash (kdump) kernel is currently + loaded into memory. It shows 1 if a crash kernel has been + successfully loaded for panic handling, or 0 if no crash + kernel is present. +User: Kexec tools, Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size +Date: Dec 2009 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read/write + Shows the amount of memory reserved for loading the crash + (kdump) kernel. It reports the size, in bytes, of the + crash kernel area defined by the crashkernel= parameter. + This interface also allows reducing the crashkernel + reservation by writing a smaller value, and the reclaimed + space is added back to the system RAM. +User: Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size +Date: Aug 2023 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates the preferred size of the memory buffer for the + ELF core header used by the crash (kdump) kernel. It defines + how much space is needed to hold metadata about the crashed + system, including CPU and memory information. This information + is used by the user space utility kexec to support updating the + in-kernel kdump image during hotplug operations. +User: Kexec tools |