[PATCH 2/2] riscv: export kaslr offset and satp in VMCOREINFO ELF notes

Paul Walmsley pjw at kernel.org
Thu Feb 12 16:45:13 PST 2026


On Wed, 11 Feb 2026, Austin Kim wrote:

> From: Austin Kim <austin.kim at lge.com>
> 
> The following options are required by the kdump crash utility for RISC-V
> based vmcore file:
> 
> - kaslr: If the vmcore is generated from a KASLR-enabled Linux kernel,
>          the KASLR offset is required for the crash utility to load
>          the vmcore. Without the proper kaslr option, the crash utility
>          fails to load the vmcore file.
> - satp: The exact root page table address helps determine the correct base
>         PGD address.
> 
> With this patch, RISC-V VMCOREINFO ELF notes now include both kaslr
> and satp information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austin.kim at lge.com>

Thanks, queued for v7.0-rc.


- Paul



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