[PATCH v5 4/8] of: reserved_mem: mark /memreserve/ entries as MEMBLOCK_NODUMP
Wandun Chen
chenwandun1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 02:35:15 PDT 2026
From: Wandun Chen <chenwandun at lixiang.com>
The /memreserve/ entries are memory reservations made by the bootloader
or firmware, their contents are not needed for kernel crash analysis,
so mark them MEMBLOCK_NODUMP to have kdump omit them from the vmcore.
Entries that overlap a dumpable region (such as CMA) are left unmarked,
because the pages of a dumpable region may carry crash-relevant data.
Signed-off-by: Wandun Chen <chenwandun at lixiang.com>
Tested-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing at lixiang.com>
---
drivers/of/fdt.c | 2 ++
drivers/of/of_private.h | 1 +
drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index a64afc3ded3d..2aa888997e9b 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -1286,6 +1286,8 @@ void __init unflatten_device_tree(void)
/* Save the statically-placed regions in the reserved_mem array */
fdt_scan_reserved_mem_late();
+ fdt_mark_memreserve_nodump();
+
/* Populate an empty root node when bootloader doesn't provide one */
if (!fdt) {
fdt = (void *) __dtb_empty_root_begin;
diff --git a/drivers/of/of_private.h b/drivers/of/of_private.h
index 0ae16da066e2..667ce9e46aab 100644
--- a/drivers/of/of_private.h
+++ b/drivers/of/of_private.h
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ static inline struct device_node *__of_get_dma_parent(const struct device_node *
int fdt_scan_reserved_mem(void);
void __init fdt_scan_reserved_mem_late(void);
+void __init fdt_mark_memreserve_nodump(void);
bool of_fdt_device_is_available(const void *blob, unsigned long node);
diff --git a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
index f38d11df6f15..f0683b5d77b3 100644
--- a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
@@ -251,6 +251,38 @@ static void __init __rmem_check_for_overlap(void)
}
}
+void __init fdt_mark_memreserve_nodump(void)
+{
+ u64 base, size;
+ int n;
+ const void *fdt = initial_boot_params;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP))
+ return;
+
+ if (!fdt)
+ return;
+
+ for (n = 0; ; n++) {
+ int i;
+
+ if (fdt_get_mem_rsv(fdt, n, &base, &size))
+ break;
+ if (!size)
+ break;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < reserved_mem_count; i++) {
+ struct reserved_mem *rmem = &reserved_mem[i];
+
+ if (rmem->dumpable && base < rmem->base + rmem->size &&
+ rmem->base < base + size)
+ break;
+ }
+ if (i == reserved_mem_count)
+ memblock_mark_nodump(base, size);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* fdt_scan_reserved_mem_late() - Scan FDT and initialize remaining reserved
* memory regions.
--
2.43.0
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