[PATCH v3 3/3] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation

Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Wed Feb 4 01:37:28 PST 2026


Commit 35c18f2933c5 ("Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the
crashkernel= command line option") and commit ab475510e042 ("kdump:
implement reserve_crashkernel_cma") added CMA support for kdump
crashkernel reservation. This allows the kernel to dynamically allocate
contiguous memory for crash dumping when needed, rather than permanently
reserving a fixed region at boot time.

So extend crashkernel CMA reservation support to riscv. The following
changes are made to enable CMA reservation:

- Parse and obtain the CMA reservation size along with other crashkernel
  parameters.
- Call reserve_crashkernel_cma() to allocate the CMA region for kdump.
- Include the CMA-reserved ranges for kdump kernel to use.
- Exclude the CMA-reserved ranges from the crash kernel memory to
  prevent them from being exported through /proc/vmcore, which is already
  done in the crash core.

Update kernel-parameters.txt to document CMA support for crashkernel on
riscv architecture.

Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++++++++--------
 arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c          | 10 ++++++++--
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c                            |  5 +++--
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 36bb642a7edd..3b92324d3a03 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1119,14 +1119,14 @@ Kernel parameters
 			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
 			or memory reserved is below 4G.
 	crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
-			[KNL, X86, ARM64, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
-			CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
-			userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
-			balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
-			will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
-			be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
-			it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
-			may be missing from the dump.
+			[KNL, X86, ARM64, RISCV, ppc] Reserve additional crash
+			kernel memory from CMA. This reservation is usable by
+			the first system's userspace memory and kernel movable
+			allocations (memory balloon, zswap). Pages allocated
+			from this memory range will not be included in the vmcore
+			so this should not be used if dumping of userspace memory
+			is intended and it has to be expected that some movable
+			kernel pages may be missing from the dump.
 
 			A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
 			is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index fec3622a13c9..0e4ac70d5a9a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
 {
 	struct crash_mem *cmem;
 	unsigned int nr_ranges;
-	int ret;
+	int ret, i;
 
-	nr_ranges = 1; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
+	nr_ranges = 1 + crashk_cma_cnt; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
 	walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
 
 	cmem = kmalloc(struct_size(cmem, ranges, nr_ranges), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+	for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; i++) {
+		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = crashk_cma_ranges[i].start;
+		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = crashk_cma_ranges[i].end;
+		cmem->nr_ranges++;
+	}
+
 	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
 
 out:
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index addb8a9305be..074d2d5f79ee 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ static inline void setup_vm_final(void)
  */
 static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
 {
-	unsigned long long low_size = 0;
+	unsigned long long low_size = 0, cma_size = 0;
 	unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
 	bool high = false;
 	int ret;
@@ -1414,11 +1414,12 @@ static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
 
 	ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
 				&crash_size, &crash_base,
-				&low_size, NULL, &high);
+				&low_size, &cma_size, &high);
 	if (ret)
 		return;
 
 	reserve_crashkernel_generic(crash_size, crash_base, low_size, high);
+	reserve_crashkernel_cma(cma_size);
 }
 
 void __init paging_init(void)
-- 
2.34.1




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