[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/fadump: remove old sysfs symlink

Sourabh Jain sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Thu Nov 13 04:13:27 AEDT 2025


Commit d418b19f34ed ("powerpc/fadump: Reorganize /sys/kernel/fadump_*
sysfs files") and commit 3f5f1f22ef10 ("Documentation/ABI: Mark
/sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated") moved the
/sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files to /sys/kernel/fadump/ and deprecated
the old files in 2019.

To maintain backward compatibility, symlinks were added at the old
locations so existing tools could still work. References [1][2] now use
the new sysfs interface, so we can safely remove the old symlinks.

Link: https://github.com/rhkdump/kdump-utils/commit/fc7c65312a5bef115ce40818bf43ddd3b01b8958 [1]
Link: https://github.com/openSUSE/kdump/commit/c274a22ff5f326c8afaa7bba60bd1b86abfc4fab [2]

Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 36 ------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index 4ebc333dd786..4348466260cf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -1604,43 +1604,7 @@ static void __init fadump_init_files(void)
 		pr_err("sysfs group creation failed (%d), unregistering FADump",
 		       rc);
 		unregister_fadump();
-		return;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * The FADump sysfs are moved from kernel_kobj to fadump_kobj need to
-	 * create symlink at old location to maintain backward compatibility.
-	 *
-	 *      - fadump_enabled -> fadump/enabled
-	 *      - fadump_registered -> fadump/registered
-	 *      - fadump_release_mem -> fadump/release_mem
-	 */
-	rc = compat_only_sysfs_link_entry_to_kobj(kernel_kobj, fadump_kobj,
-						  "enabled", "fadump_enabled");
-	if (rc) {
-		pr_err("unable to create fadump_enabled symlink (%d)", rc);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	rc = compat_only_sysfs_link_entry_to_kobj(kernel_kobj, fadump_kobj,
-						  "registered",
-						  "fadump_registered");
-	if (rc) {
-		pr_err("unable to create fadump_registered symlink (%d)", rc);
-		sysfs_remove_link(kernel_kobj, "fadump_enabled");
-		return;
 	}
-
-	if (fw_dump.dump_active) {
-		rc = compat_only_sysfs_link_entry_to_kobj(kernel_kobj,
-							  fadump_kobj,
-							  "release_mem",
-							  "fadump_release_mem");
-		if (rc)
-			pr_err("unable to create fadump_release_mem symlink (%d)",
-			       rc);
-	}
-	return;
 }
 
 static int __init fadump_setup_elfcorehdr_buf(void)
-- 
2.51.1



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