Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspace
From: Sourabh Jain <hidden>
Date: 2025-11-07 07:16:30
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kexec, lkml
On 06/11/25 10:21, Sourabh Jain wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Add a sysfs entry /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges to expose all CMA crashkernel ranges. This allows userspace tools configuring kdump to determine how much memory is reserved for crashkernel. If CMA is used, tools can warn users when attempting to capture user pages with CMA reservation. The new sysfs hold the CMA ranges in below format: cat /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges 100000000-10c7fffff Cc: Aditya Gupta <redacted> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baoquan he <redacted> Cc: Dave Young <redacted> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Bohac <redacted> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <redacted> Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <redacted> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <redacted> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump index 00c00f380fea..f59051b5d96d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump@@ -49,3 +49,13 @@ Description: read only is used by the user space utility kexec to support updating the in-kernel kdump image during hotplug operations. User: Kexec tools + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Provides information about the memory ranges reserved from + the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) area that are allocated + to the crash (kdump) kernel. It lists the start and end physical + addresses of CMA regions assigned for crashkernel use. +User: kdump service
While rebasing the v1 patches, the hunk that adds the show function didn't get picked up. I will send v3 with a show function to export the crashkernel CMA reservation. - Sourabh Jain