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2025-11-27Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interfaceSourabh Jain
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/kexec/crash_elfcorehdr_size - /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118114507.1769455-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.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>
2025-11-27Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecatedSourabh Jain
The previous commit ("kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec") moved all existing kexec sysfs entries to a new location. The ABI document is updated to include a note about the deprecation of the old kexec sysfs entries. The following kexec sysfs entries are deprecated: - /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded - /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded - /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size - /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size - /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_cma_ranges Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118114507.1769455-3-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.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>
2025-11-20crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspaceSourabh Jain
Add a sysfs entry /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_cma_ranges to expose all CMA crashkernel ranges. This allows userspace tools configuring kdump to determine how much memory is reserved for crashkernel. If CMA is used, tools can warn users when attempting to capture user pages with CMA reservation. The new sysfs hold the CMA ranges in below format: cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_cma_ranges 100000000-10c7fffff The reason for not including Crash CMA Ranges in /proc/iomem is to avoid conflicts. It has been observed that contiguous memory ranges are sometimes shown as two separate System RAM entries in /proc/iomem. If a CMA range overlaps two System RAM ranges, adding crashk_res to /proc/iomem can create a conflict. Reference [1] describes one such instance on the PowerPC architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118071023.1673329-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251016142831.144515-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.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>
2025-11-20Documentation/ABI: add kexec and kdump sysfs interfaceSourabh Jain
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>