[PATCH v25] 9/9] Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump
From: AKASHI Takahiro <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-30 06:54:31
Also in:
kexec, linux-devicetree
Subsystem:
open firmware and flattened device tree bindings, the rest · Maintainers:
Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Linus Torvalds
From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Add documentation for
linux,crashkernel-base and crashkernel-size,
linux,usable-memory-range, and
linux,elfcorehdr
used by arm64 kexec/kdump to decribe the kdump reserved area, and
the elfcorehdr's location within it.
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[takahiro.akashi at linaro.org:
renamed "usable-memory" to "usable-memory-range",
added "linux,crashkernel-base" and "-size" ]
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
index 6ae9d82..236188a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt@@ -52,3 +52,53 @@ This property is set (currently only on PowerPC, and only needed on book3e) by some versions of kexec-tools to tell the new kernel that it is being booted by kexec, as the booting environment may differ (e.g. a different secondary CPU release mechanism) + +linux,crashkernel-base +linux,crashkernel-size +---------------------- +These properties (currently used on PowerPC and arm64) indicates +the base address and the size, respectively, of the reserved memory +range for crash dump kernel. +e.g. + +/ { + chosen { + linux,crashkernel-base = <0x9 0xf0000000>; + linux,crashkernel-size = <0x0 0x10000000>; + }; +}; + +linux,usable-memory-range +------------------------- + +This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range, +the base address and the size, which can be used as system ram on +the *current* kernel. Note that, if this property is present, any memory +regions under "memory" nodes in DT blob or ones marked as "conventional +memory" in EFI memory map should be ignored. +e.g. + +/ { + chosen { + linux,usable-memory-range = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>; + }; +}; + +The main usage is for crash dump kernel to identify its own usable +memory and exclude, at its boot time, any other memory areas that are +part of the panicked kernel's memory. + +linux,elfcorehdr +---------------- + +This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range, +the address and the size, of the elf core header which mainly describes +the panicked kernel's memory layout in elf format. +e.g. + +/ { + chosen { + linux,usable-memory-range = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>; + linux,elfcorehdr = <0x9 0xfffff000 0x0 0x800>; + }; +};
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2.9.0