Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: kexec_file: add crash dump support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Jan 08 2020 - 12:48:52 EST


On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:12:47AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
> * prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
> using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
> * add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
> "linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
> to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h | 4 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c | 4 -
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> index 12a561a54128..d24b527e8c00 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> @@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
> struct kimage_arch {
> void *dtb;
> unsigned long dtb_mem;
> + /* Core ELF header buffer */
> + void *elf_headers;
> + unsigned long elf_headers_mem;
> + unsigned long elf_headers_sz;
> };

This conflicts with the cleanup work from Pavel. Please can you check my
resolution? [1]

Will

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/diff/?h=for-kernelci&id=aef73191765a88cadc0a627cdc070e5a0086b015