The powerpc kernel doesn't export the memory limit enforced by 'mem='
kernel parameter. This is required for building the ELF header in
kexec-tools to limit the vmcore to capture only the used memory. On
powerpc the kexec-tools depends on the device-tree for memory related
information, unlike /proc/iomem on the x86.
Without this information, the kexec-tools assumes the entire System
RAM and vmcore creates an unnecessarily larger dump.
This patch exports the memory limit, if present, via chosen/linux,memory-limit
property, so that the vmcore can be limited to the memory limit.
The prom_init seems to export this value in the same node. But doesn't really
appear there. Also the memory_limit gets adjusted with the processing of
crashkernel= parameter. This patch makes sure we get the actual limit.
The kexec-tools will use the value to limit the 'end' of the memory
regions.
Tested this patch on ppc64 and ppc32(ppc440) with a kexec-tools
patch by Mahesh.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suz...@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mahesh J. Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index c957b12..0c9695d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ static struct property crashk_size_prop = {
.value = &crashk_size,
};
+static struct property memory_limit_prop = {
+ .name = "linux,memory-limit",
+ .length = sizeof(phys_addr_t),
+ .value = &memory_limit,
+};
+
static void __init export_crashk_values(struct device_node *node)
{
struct property *prop;
@@ -226,6 +232,15 @@ static void __init export_crashk_values(struct device_node
*node)
crashk_size = resource_size(&crashk_res);
prom_add_property(node, &crashk_size_prop);
}
+
+ /* memory-limit is needed for constructing the crash regions */
+ prop = of_find_property(node, memory_limit_prop.name, NULL);
+ if (prop)
+ prom_remove_property(node, prop);
+
+ if (memory_limit)
+ prom_add_property(node, &memory_limit_prop);
+
}
static int __init kexec_setup(void)
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