[RFC v4 PATCH 2/5] powerpc/crash hp: introduce a new config option CRASH_HOTPLUG
From: Sourabh Jain <hidden>
Date: 2022-04-11 08:45:42
Also in:
kexec
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
The option CRASH_HOTPLUG enables, in kernel update to kexec segments on hotplug events. All the updates needed on the capture kernel load path in the kernel for both kexec_load and kexec_file_load system will be kept under this config. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <redacted> Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b779603978e1..777db33f75b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig@@ -623,6 +623,17 @@ config FA_DUMP If unsure, say "y". Only special kernels like petitboot may need to say "N" here. +config CRASH_HOTPLUG + bool "kernel updates of crash kexec segments" + depends on CRASH_DUMP && (HOTPLUG_CPU) && KEXEC_FILE + help + An efficient way to keep the capture kernel up-to-date with CPU + hotplug events. On CPU hotplug event the kexec segments of capture + kernel becomes stale and need to be updated with latest CPU data. + In this method the kernel performs minimal update to only relevant + kexec segments on CPU hotplug event, instead of triggering full + capture kernel reload from userspace using udev rule. + config PRESERVE_FA_DUMP bool "Preserve Firmware-assisted dump" depends on PPC64 && PPC_POWERNV && !FA_DUMP
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