[PATCH 0/2] kexec-tools: Fix split crash kernel reservations
Simon Horman
horms at kernel.org
Mon Aug 24 08:27:14 PDT 2026
On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 08:35:05PM +0800, Rui Qi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series fixes two kexec-tools issues seen with split crash kernel
> reservations.
>
> The first patch makes --print-ckr-size prefer
> /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size. This restores the option's original
> user-visible contract: report the same crash kernel reserved size and
> unit as the kernel sysfs attribute when that attribute is available.
> The existing arch load-range based calculation is kept as a fallback for
> older kernels.
>
> The second patch fixes the RISC-V kexec_load crash path. RISC-V records
> all Crash kernel ranges from /proc/iomem, but it currently writes only
> the selected load range to linux,usable-memory-range. On systems with
> high/low crash kernel reservations, that prevents the crash kernel from
> seeing the low reservation after boot.
>
> Keep placing the crash image segments in the selected load range, but
> pass all crash kernel ranges to the crash kernel through
> linux,usable-memory-range. This follows the split-reservation handoff
> model already used by arm64 kexec-tools, where
> linux,usable-memory-range = <BASE1 SIZE1 BASE2 SIZE2> advertises both
> high and low crash kernel ranges to the crash dump kernel.
>
> Tested on riscv64 with:
>
> /proc/iomem:
> f7e00000-ffdfffff : Crash kernel (128 MiB low)
> 1f88c00000-1ff6bfffff : Crash kernel (1760 MiB high)
>
> /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size:
> 1979711488
>
> With the patched kexec binary:
>
> kexec --print-ckr-size
> 1979711488
>
> kexec -c -p ... followed by a panic completed kdump successfully.
> The crash kernel reported both ranges as System RAM in /proc/iomem:
>
> f7e00000-ffdfffff : System RAM
> 1f88c00000-1ff6bfffff : System RAM
>
> The vmcore was saved successfully.
>
> Rui Qi (2):
> kexec: Print crash kernel reserved size from sysfs
> RISC-V: Pass all crash kernel ranges to crash kernel
Thanks, applied.
- RISC-V: Pass all crash kernel ranges to crash kernel
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=6b8b27fbe5cc
- kexec: Print crash kernel reserved size from sysfs
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=97061549e25f
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