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Re: [PATCH v17 06/10] riscv: kexec_file: Use crash_prepare_headers() helper to simplify code

From: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-29 11:28:45
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM Jinjie Ruan [off-list ref] wrote:
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Use the newly introduced crash_prepare_headers() function to replace
the existing prepare_elf_headers(), allocate cmem and exclude crash kernel
memory in the crash core, which reduce code duplication.

Only the following two architecture functions need to be implemented:
- arch_get_system_nr_ranges(). Call get_nr_ram_ranges_callback()
  to pre-counts the max number of memory ranges.

- arch_crash_populate_cmem(). Use prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback()
  to collects the memory ranges and fills them into cmem.

Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 47 +++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index fa2946aa9b8f..1dfb1d9eb691 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ 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;
@@ -56,41 +65,9 @@ static int prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(struct resource *res, void *arg)
        return 0;
 }

-static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
I agree to make arch_crash_populate_cmem more generic, and leave
arch_crash_populate_cmem & prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback here as
callbacks.

Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+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,
@@ -282,7 +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;
--
2.34.1

-- 
Best Regards
 Guo Ren
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