Revision v10 of 13 in this series; 3 review trailers (1 from subsystem maintainers).

[PATCH v10 4/8] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core

From: Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-25 02:57:38
Also in: kexec, linux-devicetree, linux-doc, linux-riscv, lkml, loongarch
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kdump, loongarch, risc-v architecture, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Andrew Morton, Baoquan He, Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin, Pratyush Yadav, Huacai Chen, Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt, Albert Ou, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

The crash memory alloc, and the exclude of crashk_res, crashk_low_res
and crashk_cma memory are almost identical across different architectures,
handling them in the crash core would eliminate a lot of duplication, so
do them in the common code.

To achieve the above goal, three architecture-specific functions are
introduced:

- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Pre-counts the max number of memory ranges.

- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Collects the memory ranges and fills them
  into cmem.

- arch_crash_exclude_ranges(). Architecture's additional crash memory
  ranges exclusion, defaulting to empty.

Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <redacted>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <redacted>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c     | 39 +++-------
 arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 39 +++-------
 arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c     | 46 +++--------
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c                    | 89 +++-------------------
 include/linux/crash_core.h                 |  5 ++
 kernel/crash_core.c                        | 82 +++++++++++++++++++-
 6 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index fba260ad87a9..c338506a580b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c

@@ -40,23 +40,23 @@ int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
 {
-	struct crash_mem *cmem;
-	unsigned int nr_ranges;
-	int ret;
-	u64 i;
+	unsigned int nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
 	phys_addr_t start, end;
+	u64 i;
 
-	nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
 		nr_ranges++;
 
-	cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
-	if (!cmem)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	return nr_ranges;
+}
+
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+	phys_addr_t start, end;
+	u64 i;
 
-	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
 	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
 		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;

@@ -64,22 +64,7 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
 		cmem->nr_ranges++;
 	}
 
-	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
-	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	if (crashk_low_res.end) {
-		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
-		if (ret)
-			goto out;
-	}
-
-	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
-	kfree(cmem);
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif

@@ -109,7 +94,7 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 	void *headers;
 	unsigned long headers_sz;
 	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
-		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+		ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
 		if (ret) {
 			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
 			goto out_err;

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 5584b798ba46..4b318a94b564 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c

@@ -56,23 +56,23 @@ static void cmdline_add_initrd(struct kimage *image, unsigned long *cmdline_tmpl
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
-
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
 {
-	int ret, nr_ranges;
-	uint64_t i;
+	int nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
 	phys_addr_t start, end;
-	struct crash_mem *cmem;
+	uint64_t i;
 
-	nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
 		nr_ranges++;
 
-	cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
-	if (!cmem)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	return nr_ranges;
+}
+
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+	phys_addr_t start, end;
+	uint64_t i;
 
-	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
 	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
 		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;

@@ -80,22 +80,7 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
 		cmem->nr_ranges++;
 	}
 
-	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
-	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out;
-
-	if (crashk_low_res.end) {
-		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			goto out;
-	}
-
-	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
-	kfree(cmem);
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*

@@ -163,7 +148,7 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 		void *headers;
 		unsigned long headers_sz;
 
-		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+		ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
 			goto out_err;

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 3f7766057cac..5a91bdfae162 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c

@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ static int get_nr_ram_ranges_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
+{
+	unsigned int nr_ranges = 2; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
+
+	walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
+
+	return nr_ranges;
+}
+
 static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
 {
 	struct crash_mem *cmem = arg;

@@ -55,41 +64,10 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
 {
-	struct crash_mem *cmem;
-	unsigned int nr_ranges;
-	int ret;
-
-	nr_ranges = 2; /* For exclusion of crashkernel region */
-	walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
-
-	cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
-	if (!cmem)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
 	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
-	ret = walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
-	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	if (crashk_low_res.end) {
-		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
-		if (ret)
-			goto out;
-	}
-
-	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
-
-out:
-	kfree(cmem);
-	return ret;
+	return walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
 }
 
 static char *setup_kdump_cmdline(struct kimage *image, char *cmdline,

@@ -281,7 +259,7 @@ int load_extra_segments(struct kimage *image, unsigned long kernel_start,
 	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
 		void *headers;
 		unsigned long headers_sz;
-		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&headers, &headers_sz);
+		ret = crash_prepare_headers(true, &headers, &headers_sz, NULL);
 		if (ret) {
 			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
 			goto out;

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 335fd2ee9766..3ad3f8b758a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c

@@ -152,16 +152,8 @@ static int get_nr_ram_ranges_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/* Gather all the required information to prepare elf headers for ram regions */
-static struct crash_mem *fill_up_crash_elf_data(void)
+unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void)
 {
-	unsigned int nr_ranges = 0;
-	struct crash_mem *cmem;
-
-	walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
-	if (!nr_ranges)
-		return NULL;
-
 	/*
 	 * Exclusion of crash region, crashk_low_res and/or crashk_cma_ranges
 	 * may cause range splits. So add extra slots here.

@@ -176,49 +168,16 @@ static struct crash_mem *fill_up_crash_elf_data(void)
 	 * But in order to lest the low 1M could be changed in the future,
 	 * (e.g. [start, 1M]), add a extra slot.
 	 */
-	nr_ranges += 3 + crashk_cma_cnt;
-	cmem = vzalloc(struct_size(cmem, ranges, nr_ranges));
-	if (!cmem)
-		return NULL;
-
-	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
+	unsigned int nr_ranges = 3 + crashk_cma_cnt;
 
-	return cmem;
+	walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, &nr_ranges, get_nr_ram_ranges_callback);
+	return nr_ranges;
 }
 
-/*
- * Look for any unwanted ranges between mstart, mend and remove them. This
- * might lead to split and split ranges are put in cmem->ranges[] array
- */
-static int elf_header_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+int arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-	int i;
-
 	/* Exclude the low 1M because it is always reserved */
-	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, 0, SZ_1M - 1);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
-	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	if (crashk_low_res.end)
-		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start,
-					      crashk_low_res.end);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
-		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
-					      crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
+	return crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, 0, SZ_1M - 1);
 }
 
 static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)

@@ -232,35 +191,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/* Prepare elf headers. Return addr and size */
-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz,
-			       unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges)
+int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem)
 {
-	struct crash_mem *cmem;
-	int ret;
-
-	cmem = fill_up_crash_elf_data();
-	if (!cmem)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	ret = walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Exclude unwanted mem ranges */
-	ret = elf_header_exclude_ranges(cmem);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Return the computed number of memory ranges, for hotplug usage */
-	*nr_mem_ranges = cmem->nr_ranges;
-
-	/* By default prepare 64bit headers */
-	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), addr, sz);
-
-out:
-	vfree(cmem);
-	return ret;
+	return walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, cmem, prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback);
 }
 #endif

@@ -418,7 +351,8 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
 				  .buf_max = ULONG_MAX, .top_down = false };
 
 	/* Prepare elf headers and add a segment */
-	ret = prepare_elf_headers(&kbuf.buffer, &kbuf.bufsz, &pnum);
+	ret = crash_prepare_headers(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), &kbuf.buffer,
+				    &kbuf.bufsz, &pnum);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;

@@ -529,7 +463,8 @@ void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg)
 	 * Create the new elfcorehdr reflecting the changes to CPU and/or
 	 * memory resources.
 	 */
-	if (prepare_elf_headers(&elfbuf, &elfsz, &nr_mem_ranges)) {
+	if (crash_prepare_headers(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64), &elfbuf, &elfsz,
+				  &nr_mem_ranges)) {
 		pr_err("unable to create new elfcorehdr");
 		goto out;
 	}

diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index d35726d6a415..033b20204aca 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ extern int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem,
 				   unsigned long long mend);
 extern int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
 				       void **addr, unsigned long *sz);
+extern int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr,
+				 unsigned long *sz, unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges);
 
 struct kimage;
 struct kexec_segment;

@@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p);
 int kexec_crash_loaded(void);
 void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu);
 extern int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image);
+extern unsigned int arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void);
+extern int arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem);
+extern int arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem);
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP*/
 struct pt_regs;

diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 2c1a3791e410..96a96e511f5a 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c

@@ -170,9 +170,6 @@ static inline resource_size_t crash_resource_size(const struct resource *res)
 	return !res->end ? 0 : resource_size(res);
 }
 
-
-
-
 int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
 			  void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
 {

@@ -274,6 +271,85 @@ int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static struct crash_mem *alloc_cmem(unsigned int nr_ranges)
+{
+	struct crash_mem *cmem;
+
+	cmem = kvzalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
+	if (!cmem)
+		return NULL;
+
+	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
+	return cmem;
+}
+
+unsigned int __weak arch_get_system_nr_ranges(void) { return 0; }
+int __weak arch_crash_populate_cmem(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return -1; }
+int __weak arch_crash_exclude_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem) { return 0; }
+
+static int crash_exclude_core_ranges(struct crash_mem *cmem)
+{
+	int ret, i;
+
+	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
+	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	if (crashk_low_res.end) {
+		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
+		ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
+					      crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int crash_prepare_headers(int need_kernel_map, void **addr, unsigned long *sz,
+			  unsigned long *nr_mem_ranges)
+{
+	unsigned int max_nr_ranges;
+	struct crash_mem *cmem;
+	int ret;
+
+	max_nr_ranges = arch_get_system_nr_ranges();
+	if (!max_nr_ranges)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	cmem = alloc_cmem(max_nr_ranges);
+	if (!cmem)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ret = arch_crash_populate_cmem(cmem);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	ret = crash_exclude_core_ranges(cmem);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	ret = arch_crash_exclude_ranges(cmem);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* Return the computed number of memory ranges, for hotplug usage */
+	if (nr_mem_ranges)
+		*nr_mem_ranges = cmem->nr_ranges;
+
+	ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, need_kernel_map, addr, sz);
+
+out:
+	kvfree(cmem);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * crash_exclude_mem_range - exclude a mem range for existing ranges
  * @mem: mem->range contains an array of ranges sorted in ascending order

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