[PATCH v2] arm: kdump: Add DT properties to crash dump kernel's DTB
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Wed Oct 20 03:11:44 PDT 2021
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 02:40:32PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Pass the following properties to the crash dump kernel, to provide a
> modern DT interface between kexec and the crash dump kernel:
>
> - linux,elfcorehdr: ELF core header segment, similar to the
> "elfcorehdr=" kernel parameter.
> - linux,usable-memory-range: Usable memory reserved for the crash dump
> kernel.
> This makes the memory reservation explicit, so Linux no longer needs
> to mask the program counter, and rely on the "mem=" kernel parameter
> to obtain the start and size of usable memory.
>
> For backwards compatibility, the "elfcorehdr=" and "mem=" kernel
> parameters are still appended to the kernel command line.
>
> Loosely based on the ARM64 version by Akashi Takahiro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
Thanks Geert, applied.
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