[PATCH v3 5/5] crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspace
Baoquan he
bhe at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 18:08:41 AEDT 2025
On 11/10/25 at 10:01am, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Add a sysfs entry /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges to expose all
> CMA crashkernel ranges.
I am not against this way. While wondering if it's more appropriate to
export them into iomem_resource just like crashk_res and crashk_low_res
doing.
>
> 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
>
> Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Baoquan he <bhe at redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>
> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>
> Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
> - Add the missing hunk to export crash_cma_ranges sysfs
>
> ---
> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 10 ++++++++++
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
> index 00c00f380fea..f59051b5d96d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
> @@ -49,3 +49,13 @@ Description: read only
> is used by the user space utility kexec to support updating the
> in-kernel kdump image during hotplug operations.
> User: Kexec tools
> +
> +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges
> +Date: Nov 2025
> +Contact: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> +Description: read only
> + Provides information about the memory ranges reserved from
> + the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) area that are allocated
> + to the crash (kdump) kernel. It lists the start and end physical
> + addresses of CMA regions assigned for crashkernel use.
> +User: kdump service
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> index 7476a46de5d6..da6ff72b4669 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> @@ -1271,6 +1271,22 @@ static ssize_t crash_size_store(struct kobject *kobj,
> }
> static struct kobj_attribute crash_size_attr = __ATTR_RW(crash_size);
>
> +static ssize_t crash_cma_ranges_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +
> + ssize_t len = 0;
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
> + len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, "%08llx-%08llx\n",
> + crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
> + crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
> + }
> + return len;
> +}
> +static struct kobj_attribute crash_cma_ranges_attr = __ATTR_RO(crash_cma_ranges);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> static ssize_t crash_elfcorehdr_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> @@ -1289,6 +1305,7 @@ static struct attribute *kexec_attrs[] = {
> #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
> &crash_loaded_attr.attr,
> &crash_size_attr.attr,
> + &crash_cma_ranges_attr.attr,
> #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> &crash_elfcorehdr_size_attr.attr,
> #endif
> --
> 2.51.1
>
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