RISC-V: Add crash kernel support
This patch allows Linux to act as a crash kernel for use with
kdump. Userspace will let the crash kernel know about the
memory region it can use through linux,usable-memory property
on the /memory node (overriding its reg property), and about the
memory region where the elf core header of the previous kernel
is saved, through a reserved-memory node with a compatible string
of "linux,elfcorehdr". This approach is the least invasive and
re-uses functionality already present.
I tested this on riscv64 qemu and it works as expected, you
may test it by retrieving the dmesg of the previous kernel
through /proc/vmcore, using the vmcore-dmesg utility from
kexec-tools.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index e38bd04..61514e0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -405,6 +405,16 @@
The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call.
+config CRASH_DUMP
+ bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
+ help
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should
+ be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are
+ loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially
+ reserved region and then later executed after a crash by
+ kdump/kexec.
+
+ For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
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