[PATCH] kexec: Enable CMA based contiguous allocation

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat May 24 03:16:03 PDT 2025


On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 22:57 +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #define KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH	0x00000002
>  #define KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS	0x00000004
>  #define KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG	0x00000008
> +#define KEXEC_FILE_NO_CMA	0x00000010
>  

Gives me EINVAL when I try to use it. This helps (but should it be
permitted only on architectures which implement it?):

--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ extern int kexec_load_disabled;
 /* List of defined/legal kexec file flags */
 #define KEXEC_FILE_FLAGS       (KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD | KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH | \
                                 KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS | \
-                                KEXEC_FILE_COOPERATIVE)
+                                KEXEC_FILE_COOPERATIVE | KEXEC_FILE_NO_CMA)
 
 /* Location of a reserved region to hold the crash kernel.
  */

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