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2025-12-23kernel/kexec: change the prototype of kimage_map_segment()Pingfan Liu1-2/+2
The kexec segment index will be required to extract the corresponding information for that segment in kimage_map_segment(). Additionally, kexec_segment already holds the kexec relocation destination address and size. Therefore, the prototype of kimage_map_segment() can be changed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216014852.8737-1-piliu@redhat.com Fixes: 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13x86/kexec: carry forward the boot DTB on kexecBrian Mak1-1/+4
Currently, the kexec_file_load syscall on x86 does not support passing a device tree blob to the new kernel. Some embedded x86 systems use device trees. On these systems, failing to pass a device tree to the new kernel causes a boot failure. To add support for this, we copy the behavior of ARM64 and PowerPC and copy the current boot's device tree blob for use in the new kernel. We do this on x86 by passing the device tree blob as a setup_data entry in accordance with the x86 boot protocol. This behavior is gated behind the KEXEC_FILE_FORCE_DTB flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805211527.122367-3-makb@juniper.net Signed-off-by: Brian Mak <makb@juniper.net> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-27kexec: add KEXEC_FILE_NO_CMA as a legal flagBrian Mak1-1/+2
Commit 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") introduces logic to use CMA-based allocation in kexec by default. As part of the changes, it introduces a kexec_file_load flag to disable the use of CMA allocations from userspace. However, this flag is broken since it is missing from the list of legal flags for kexec_file_load. kexec_file_load returns EINVAL when attempting to use the flag. Fix this by adding the KEXEC_FILE_NO_CMA flag to the list of legal flags for kexec_file_load. Without this fix, kexec_file_load syscall will failed and return '-EINVAL' when KEXEC_FILE_NO_CMA is specified. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805211527.122367-2-makb@juniper.net Fixes: 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") Signed-off-by: Brian Mak <makb@juniper.net> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-02kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocationAlexander Graf1-0/+10
When booting a new kernel with kexec_file, the kernel picks a target location that the kernel should live at, then allocates random pages, checks whether any of those patches magically happens to coincide with a target address range and if so, uses them for that range. For every page allocated this way, it then creates a page list that the relocation code - code that executes while all CPUs are off and we are just about to jump into the new kernel - copies to their final memory location. We can not put them there before, because chances are pretty good that at least some page in the target range is already in use by the currently running Linux environment. Copying is happening from a single CPU at RAM rate, which takes around 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. All of this is inefficient and error prone. To successfully kexec, we need to quiesce all devices of the outgoing kernel so they don't scribble over the new kernel's memory. We have seen cases where that does not happen properly (*cough* GIC *cough*) and hence the new kernel was corrupted. This started a month long journey to root cause failing kexecs to eventually see memory corruption, because the new kernel was corrupted severely enough that it could not emit output to tell us about the fact that it was corrupted. By allocating memory for the next kernel from a memory range that is guaranteed scribbling free, we can boot the next kernel up to a point where it is at least able to detect corruption and maybe even stop it before it becomes severe. This increases the chance for successful kexecs. Since kexec got introduced, Linux has gained the CMA framework which can perform physically contiguous memory mappings, while keeping that memory available for movable memory when it is not needed for contiguous allocations. The default CMA allocator is for DMA allocations. This patch adds logic to the kexec file loader to attempt to place the target payload at a location allocated from CMA. If successful, it uses that memory range directly instead of creating copy instructions during the hot phase. To ensure that there is a safety net in case anything goes wrong with the CMA allocation, it also adds a flag for user space to force disable CMA allocations. Using CMA allocations has two advantages: 1) Faster by 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. There is no more need to copy in the hot phase. 2) More robust. Even if by accident some page is still in use for DMA, the new kernel image will be safe from that access because it resides in a memory region that is considered allocated in the old kernel and has a chance to reinitialize that component. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610085327.51817-1-graf@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-31Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+34
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector. The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump. When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in the series [0/N] cover letter - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb scripts * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits) llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off() scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux() kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK fork: check charging success before zeroing stack fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()" crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel ...
2025-05-31Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide this. - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up and better prepare us for future work. - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory block size. - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's memory consumption was dramatic. - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to this part of our swap handling code. - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...
2025-05-21crash_dump: store dm crypt keys in kdump reserved memoryCoiby Xu1-0/+4
When the kdump kernel image and initrd are loaded, the dm crypts keys will be read from keyring and then stored in kdump reserved memory. Assume a key won't exceed 256 bytes thus MAX_KEY_SIZE=256 according to "cryptsetup benchmark". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250502011246.99238-4-coxu@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@redhat.com> Cc: Liu Pingfan <kernelfans@gmail.com> Cc: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-21kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomlyCoiby Xu1-0/+30
Patch series "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys", v9. LUKS is the standard for Linux disk encryption, widely adopted by users, and in some cases, such as Confidential VMs, it is a requirement. With kdump enabled, when the first kernel crashes, the system can boot into the kdump/crash kernel to dump the memory image (i.e., /proc/vmcore) to a specified target. However, there are two challenges when dumping vmcore to a LUKS-encrypted device: - Kdump kernel may not be able to decrypt the LUKS partition. For some machines, a system administrator may not have a chance to enter the password to decrypt the device in kdump initramfs after the 1st kernel crashes; For cloud confidential VMs, depending on the policy the kdump kernel may not be able to unseal the keys with TPM and the console virtual keyboard is untrusted. - LUKS2 by default use the memory-hard Argon2 key derivation function which is quite memory-consuming compared to the limited memory reserved for kdump. Take Fedora example, by default, only 256M is reserved for systems having memory between 4G-64G. With LUKS enabled, ~1300M needs to be reserved for kdump. Note if the memory reserved for kdump can't be used by 1st kernel i.e. an user sees ~1300M memory missing in the 1st kernel. Besides users (at least for Fedora) usually expect kdump to work out of the box i.e. no manual password input or custom crashkernel value is needed. And it doesn't make sense to derivate the keys again in kdump kernel which seems to be redundant work. This patchset addresses the above issues by making the LUKS volume keys persistent for kdump kernel with the help of cryptsetup's new APIs (--link-vk-to-keyring/--volume-key-keyring). Here is the life cycle of the kdump copies of LUKS volume keys, 1. After the 1st kernel loads the initramfs during boot, systemd use an user-input passphrase to de-crypt the LUKS volume keys or TPM-sealed key and then save the volume keys to specified keyring (using the --link-vk-to-keyring API) and the key will expire within specified time. 2. A user space tool (kdump initramfs loader like kdump-utils) create key items inside /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys to inform the 1st kernel which keys are needed. 3. When the kdump initramfs is loaded by the kexec_file_load syscall, the 1st kernel will iterate created key items, save the keys to kdump reserved memory. 4. When the 1st kernel crashes and the kdump initramfs is booted, the kdump initramfs asks the kdump kernel to create a user key using the key stored in kdump reserved memory by writing yes to /sys/kernel/crash_dm_crypt_keys/restore. Then the LUKS encrypted device is unlocked with libcryptsetup's --volume-key-keyring API. 5. The system gets rebooted to the 1st kernel after dumping vmcore to the LUKS encrypted device is finished After libcryptsetup saving the LUKS volume keys to specified keyring, whoever takes this should be responsible for the safety of these copies of keys. The keys will be saved in the memory area exclusively reserved for kdump where even the 1st kernel has no direct access. And further more, two additional protections are added, - save the copy randomly in kdump reserved memory as suggested by Jan - clear the _PAGE_PRESENT flag of the page that stores the copy as suggested by Pingfan This patchset only supports x86. There will be patches to support other architectures once this patch set gets merged. This patch (of 9): Currently, kexec_buf is placed in order which means for the same machine, the info in the kexec_buf is always located at the same position each time the machine is booted. This may cause a risk for sensitive information like LUKS volume key. Now struct kexec_buf has a new field random which indicates it's supposed to be placed in a random position. Note this feature is enabled only when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled. So it only takes effect for kdump and won't impact kexec reboot. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250502011246.99238-1-coxu@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250502011246.99238-2-coxu@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Liu Pingfan <kernelfans@gmail.com> Cc: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12kexec: add KHO support to kexec file loadsAlexander Graf1-0/+5
Kexec has 2 modes: A user space driven mode and a kernel driven mode. For the kernel driven mode, kernel code determines the physical addresses of all target buffers that the payload gets copied into. With KHO, we can only safely copy payloads into the "scratch area". Teach the kexec file loader about it, so it only allocates for that area. In addition, enlighten it with support to ask the KHO subsystem for its respective payloads to copy into target memory. Also teach the KHO subsystem how to fill the images for file loads. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-8-changyuanl@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com> Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Gowans <jgowans@amazon.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Cc: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-29ima: kexec: skip IMA segment validation after kexec soft rebootSteven Chen1-0/+3
Currently, the function kexec_calculate_store_digests() calculates and stores the digest of the segment during the kexec_file_load syscall, where the IMA segment is also allocated. Later, the IMA segment will be updated with the measurement log at the kexec execute stage when a kexec reboot is initiated. Therefore, the digests should be updated for the IMA segment in the normal case. The problem is that the content of memory segments carried over to the new kernel during the kexec systemcall can be changed at kexec 'execute' stage, but the size and the location of the memory segments cannot be changed at kexec 'execute' stage. To address this, skip the calculation and storage of the digest for the IMA segment in kexec_calculate_store_digests() so that it is not added to the purgatory_sha_regions. With this change, the IMA segment is not included in the digest calculation, storage, and verification. Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> # ppc64/kvm [zohar@linux.ibm.com: Fixed Signed-off-by tag to match author's email ] Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2025-04-29kexec: define functions to map and unmap segmentsSteven Chen1-0/+6
Implement kimage_map_segment() to enable IMA to map the measurement log list to the kimage structure during the kexec 'load' stage. This function gathers the source pages within the specified address range, and maps them to a contiguous virtual address range. This is a preparation for later usage. Implement kimage_unmap_segment() for unmapping segments using vunmap(). Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> # ppc64/kvm Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...
2025-03-16crash: let arch decide usable memory range in reserved areaSourabh Jain1-0/+9
Although the crashkernel area is reserved, on architectures like PowerPC, it is possible for the crashkernel reserved area to contain components like RTAS, TCE, OPAL, etc. To avoid placing kexec segments over these components, PowerPC has its own set of APIs to locate holes in the crashkernel reserved area. Add an arch hook in the generic locate mem hole APIs so that architectures can handle such special regions in the crashkernel area while locating memory holes for kexec segments using generic APIs. With this, a lot of redundant arch-specific code can be removed, as it performs the exact same job as the generic APIs. To keep the generic and arch-specific changes separate, the changes related to moving PowerPC to use the generic APIs and the removal of PowerPC-specific APIs for memory hole allocation are done in a subsequent patch titled "powerpc/crash: Use generic APIs to locate memory hole for kdump. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-02-10crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAMEAkihiko Odaki1-2/+0
KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115-elf-v5-6-0f9e55bbb2fc@daynix.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2024-05-19Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. Notable series include: - Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high". - Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes exposed by fstests". - kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo: Clean up kfifo.h". - GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb: Fixes for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu". - After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over macros. The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like macro"" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (62 commits) fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore nilfs2: convert BUG_ON() in nilfs_finish_roll_forward() to WARN_ON() scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate parameters nilfs2: use __field_struct() for a bitwise field selftests/kcmp: remove unused open mode nilfs2: remove calls to folio_set_error() and folio_clear_error() kernel/watchdog_perf.c: tidy up kerneldoc watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event watchdog: handle comma separated nmi_watchdog command line nilfs2: make superblock data array index computation sparse friendly squashfs: remove calls to set the folio error flag squashfs: convert squashfs_symlink_read_folio to use folio APIs scripts/gdb: fix detection of current CPU in KGDB scripts/gdb: make get_thread_info accept pointers scripts/gdb: fix parameter handling in $lx_per_cpu scripts/gdb: fix failing KGDB detection during probe kfifo: don't use "proxy" headers media: stih-cec: add missing io.h media: rc: add missing io.h ...
2024-05-08kexec: fix the unexpected kexec_dprintk() macroBaoquan He1-4/+2
Jiri reported that the current kexec_dprintk() always prints out debugging message whenever kexec/kdmmp loading is triggered. That is not wanted. The debugging message is supposed to be printed out when 'kexec -s -d' is specified for kexec/kdump loading. After investigating, the reason is the current kexec_dprintk() takes printk(KERN_INFO) or printk(KERN_DEBUG) depending on whether '-d' is specified. However, distros usually have defaulg log level like below: [~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk 7 4 1 7 So, even though '-d' is not specified, printk(KERN_DEBUG) also always prints out. I thought printk(KERN_DEBUG) is equal to pr_debug(), it's not. Fix it by changing to use pr_info() instead which are expected to work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240409042238.1240462-1-bhe@redhat.com Fixes: cbc2fe9d9cb2 ("kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to control debug printing") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4c775fca-5def-4a2d-8437-7130b02722a2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-23crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug supportSourabh Jain1-4/+7
Commit a72bbec70da2 ("crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()") introduced a new kexec flag, `KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR`. Kexec tool uses this flag to indicate to the kernel that it is safe to modify the elfcorehdr of the kdump image loaded using the kexec_load system call. However, it is possible that architectures may need to update kexec segments other then elfcorehdr. For example, FDT (Flatten Device Tree) on PowerPC. Introducing a new kexec flag for every new kexec segment may not be a good solution. Hence, a generic kexec flag bit, `KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT`, is introduced to share the CPU/Memory hotplug support intent between the kexec tool and the kernel for the kexec_load system call. Now we have two kexec flags that enables crash hotplug support for kexec_load system call. First is KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR (only used in x86), and second is KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT (for all architectures). To simplify the process of finding and reporting the crash hotplug support the following changes are introduced. 1. Define arch specific function to process the kexec flags and determine crash hotplug support 2. Rename the @update_elfcorehdr member of struct kimage to @hotplug_support and populate it for both kexec_load and kexec_file_load syscalls, because architecture can update more than one kexec segment 3. Let generic function crash_check_hotplug_support report hotplug support for loaded kdump image based on value of @hotplug_support To bring the x86 crash hotplug support in line with the above points, the following changes have been made: - Introduce the arch_crash_hotplug_support function to process kexec flags and determine crash hotplug support - Remove the arch_crash_hotplug_[cpu|memory]_support functions Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20240326055413.186534-3-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
2024-02-23crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.cBaoquan He1-44/+1
Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code even though the crash dumping functionality is not enabled. E.g -------------------- CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y --------------------- After splitting out crashkernel reservation code and vmcoreinfo exporting code, there's only crash related code left in kernel/crash_core.c. Now move crash related codes from kexec_core.c to crash_core.c and only build it in when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y. And also wrap up crash codes inside CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdeffery scope, or replace inappropriate CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE ifdef with CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdef in generic kernel files. With these changes, crash_core codes are abstracted from kexec codes and can be disabled at all if only kexec reboot feature is wanted. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-5-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-23crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.cBaoquan He1-0/+1
Now move the relevant codes into separate files: kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h. And add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling. And also update the old ifdeffery of CONFIG_CRASH_CORE, including of <linux/crash_core.h> and config item dependency on CRASH_CORE accordingly. And also do renaming as follows: - arch/xxx/kernel/{crash_core.c => vmcore_info.c} because they are only related to vmcoreinfo exporting on x86, arm64, riscv. And also Remove config item CRASH_CORE, and rely on CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to decide if build in crash_core.c. [yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com: remove duplicated include in vmcore_info.c] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126005744.16561-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-23kexec: split crashkernel reservation code out from crash_core.cBaoquan He1-0/+1
Patch series "Split crash out from kexec and clean up related config items", v3. Motivation: ============= Previously, LKP reported a building error. When investigating, it can't be resolved reasonablly with the present messy kdump config items. https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312182200.Ka7MzifQ-lkp@intel.com/ The kdump (crash dumping) related config items could causes confusions: Firstly, CRASH_CORE enables codes including - crashkernel reservation; - elfcorehdr updating; - vmcoreinfo exporting; - crash hotplug handling; Now fadump of powerpc, kcore dynamic debugging and kdump all selects CRASH_CORE, while fadump - fadump needs crashkernel parsing, vmcoreinfo exporting, and accessing global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr'; - kcore only needs vmcoreinfo exporting; - kdump needs all of the current kernel/crash_core.c. So only enabling PROC_CORE or FA_DUMP will enable CRASH_CORE, this mislead people that we enable crash dumping, actual it's not. Secondly, It's not reasonable to allow KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE. Because KEXEC_CORE enables codes which allocate control pages, copy kexec/kdump segments, and prepare for switching. These codes are shared by both kexec reboot and kdump. We could want kexec reboot, but disable kdump. In that case, CRASH_CORE should not be selected. -------------------- CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y --------------------- Thirdly, It's not reasonable to allow CRASH_DUMP select KEXEC_CORE. That could make KEXEC_CORE, CRASH_DUMP are enabled independently from KEXEC or KEXEC_FILE. However, w/o KEXEC or KEXEC_FILE, the KEXEC_CORE code built in doesn't make any sense because no kernel loading or switching will happen to utilize the KEXEC_CORE code. --------------------- CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y --------------------- In this case, what is worse, on arch sh and arm, KEXEC relies on MMU, while CRASH_DUMP can still be enabled when !MMU, then compiling error is seen as the lkp test robot reported in above link. ------arch/sh/Kconfig------ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC def_bool MMU config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP def_bool BROKEN_ON_SMP --------------------------- Changes: =========== 1, split out crash_reserve.c from crash_core.c; 2, split out vmcore_infoc. from crash_core.c; 3, move crash related codes in kexec_core.c into crash_core.c; 4, remove dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP; 5, clean up kdump related config items; 6, wrap up crash codes in crash related ifdefs on all 8 arch-es which support crash dumping, except of ppc; Achievement: =========== With above changes, I can rearrange the config item logic as below (the right item depends on or is selected by the left item): PROC_KCORE -----------> VMCORE_INFO |----------> VMCORE_INFO FA_DUMP----| |----------> CRASH_RESERVE ---->VMCORE_INFO / |---->CRASH_RESERVE KEXEC --| /| |--> KEXEC_CORE--> CRASH_DUMP-->/-|---->PROC_VMCORE KEXEC_FILE --| \ | \---->CRASH_HOTPLUG KEXEC --| |--> KEXEC_CORE (for kexec reboot only) KEXEC_FILE --| Test ======== On all 8 architectures, including x86_64, arm64, s390x, sh, arm, mips, riscv, loongarch, I did below three cases of config item setting and building all passed. Take configs on x86_64 as exampmle here: (1) Both CONFIG_KEXEC and KEXEC_FILE is unset, then all kexec/kdump items are unset automatically: # Kexec and crash features # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set # CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is not set # end of Kexec and crash features (2) set CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE and 'make olddefconfig': --------------- # Kexec and crash features CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE=y CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO=y CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES=8192 # end of Kexec and crash features --------------- (3) unset CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP in case 2 and execute 'make olddefconfig': ------------------------ # Kexec and crash features CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y # end of Kexec and crash features ------------------------ Note: For ppc, it needs investigation to make clear how to split out crash code in arch folder. Hope Hari and Pingfan can help have a look, see if it's doable. Now, I make it either have both kexec and crash enabled, or disable both of them altogether. This patch (of 14): Both kdump and fa_dump of ppc rely on crashkernel reservation. Move the relevant codes into separate files: crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h. And also add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling of the codes. And update config items which has relationship with crashkernel reservation. And also change ifdeffery from CONFIG_CRASH_CORE to CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE when those scopes are only crashkernel reservation related. And also rename arch/XXX/include/asm/{crash_core.h => crash_reserve.h} on arm64, x86 and risc-v because those architectures' crash_core.h is only related to crashkernel reservation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CRASH_RESEERVE/CRASH_RESERVE/, per Klara Modin] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-1-bhe@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-2-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-20kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to control debug printingBaoquan He1-1/+8
Patch series "kexec_file: print out debugging message if required", v4. Currently, specifying '-d' on kexec command will print a lot of debugging informationabout kexec/kdump loading with kexec_load interface. However, kexec_file_load prints nothing even though '-d' is specified. It's very inconvenient to debug or analyze the kexec/kdump loading when something wrong happened with kexec/kdump itself or develper want to check the kexec/kdump loading. In this patchset, a kexec_file flag is KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG added and checked in code. If it's passed in, debugging message of kexec_file code will be printed out and can be seen from console and dmesg. Otherwise, the debugging message is printed like beofre when pr_debug() is taken. Note: **** ===== 1) The code in kexec-tools utility also need be changed to support passing KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG to kernel when 'kexec -s -d' is specified. The patch link is here: ========= [PATCH] kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to support debug printing http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2023-November/028505.html 2) s390 also has kexec_file code, while I am not sure what debugging information is necessary. So leave it to s390 developer. Test: **** ==== Testing was done in v1 on x86_64 and arm64. For v4, tested on x86_64 again. And on x86_64, the printed messages look like below: -------------------------------------------------------------- kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x207fffe000. Loaded purgatory at 0x207fff9000 Loaded boot_param, command line and misc at 0x207fff3000 bufsz=0x1180 memsz=0x1180 Loaded 64bit kernel at 0x207c000000 bufsz=0xc88200 memsz=0x3c4a000 Loaded initrd at 0x2079e79000 bufsz=0x2186280 memsz=0x2186280 Final command line is: root=/dev/mapper/fedora_intel--knightslanding--lb--02-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora_intel-knightslanding-lb-02/root console=ttyS0,115200N81 crashkernel=256M E820 memmap: 0000000000000000-000000000009a3ff (1) 000000000009a400-000000000009ffff (2) 00000000000e0000-00000000000fffff (2) 0000000000100000-000000006ff83fff (1) 000000006ff84000-000000007ac50fff (2) ...... 000000207fff6150-000000207fff615f (128) 000000207fff6160-000000207fff714f (1) 000000207fff7150-000000207fff715f (128) 000000207fff7160-000000207fff814f (1) 000000207fff8150-000000207fff815f (128) 000000207fff8160-000000207fffffff (1) nr_segments = 5 segment[0]: buf=0x000000004e5ece74 bufsz=0x211 mem=0x207fffe000 memsz=0x1000 segment[1]: buf=0x000000009e871498 bufsz=0x4000 mem=0x207fff9000 memsz=0x5000 segment[2]: buf=0x00000000d879f1fe bufsz=0x1180 mem=0x207fff3000 memsz=0x2000 segment[3]: buf=0x000000001101cd86 bufsz=0xc88200 mem=0x207c000000 memsz=0x3c4a000 segment[4]: buf=0x00000000c6e38ac7 bufsz=0x2186280 mem=0x2079e79000 memsz=0x2187000 kexec_file_load: type:0, start:0x207fff91a0 head:0x109e004002 flags:0x8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This patch (of 7): When specifying 'kexec -c -d', kexec_load interface will print loading information, e.g the regions where kernel/initrd/purgatory/cmdline are put, the memmap passed to 2nd kernel taken as system RAM ranges, and printing all contents of struct kexec_segment, etc. These are very helpful for analyzing or positioning what's happening when kexec/kdump itself failed. The debugging printing for kexec_load interface is made in user space utility kexec-tools. Whereas, with kexec_file_load interface, 'kexec -s -d' print nothing. Because kexec_file code is mostly implemented in kernel space, and the debugging printing functionality is missed. It's not convenient when debugging kexec/kdump loading and jumping with kexec_file_load interface. Now add KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG to kexec_file flag to control the debugging message printing. And add global varia