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Message-ID: <20251016142831.144515-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:58:31 +0530
From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Baoquan he <bhe@...hat.com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] crash: let architecture decide crash memory export to iomem_resource
With the generic crashkernel reservation, the kernel emits the following
warning on powerpc:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c:341 add_system_ram_resources+0xfc/0x180
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.17.0-auto-12607-g5472d60c129f #1 VOLUNTARY
Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected) 0x820200 0xf000007 of:IBM,FW1110.01 (NH1110_069) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP: c00000000201de3c LR: c00000000201de34 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000127cef8a0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.17.0-auto-12607-g5472d60c129f)
MSR: 8000000002029033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 84000840 XER: 20040010
CFAR: c00000000017eed0 IRQMASK: 0
GPR00: c00000000201de34 c000000127cefb40 c0000000016a8100 0000000000000001
GPR04: c00000012005aa00 0000000020000000 c000000002b705c8 0000000000000000
GPR08: 000000007fffffff fffffffffffffff0 c000000002db8100 000000011fffffff
GPR12: c00000000201dd40 c000000002ff0000 c0000000000112bc 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000015a3808
GPR24: c00000000200468c c000000001699888 0000000000000106 c0000000020d1950
GPR28: c0000000014683f8 0000000081000200 c0000000015c1868 c000000002b9f710
NIP [c00000000201de3c] add_system_ram_resources+0xfc/0x180
LR [c00000000201de34] add_system_ram_resources+0xf4/0x180
Call Trace:
add_system_ram_resources+0xf4/0x180 (unreliable)
do_one_initcall+0x60/0x36c
do_initcalls+0x120/0x220
kernel_init_freeable+0x23c/0x390
kernel_init+0x34/0x26c
ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
This warning occurs due to a conflict between crashkernel and System RAM
iomem resources.
The generic crashkernel reservation adds the crashkernel memory range to
/proc/iomem during early initialization. Later, all memblock ranges are
added to /proc/iomem as System RAM. If the crashkernel region overlaps
with any memblock range, it causes a conflict while adding those memblock
regions as iomem resources, triggering the above warning. The conflicting
memblock regions are then omitted from /proc/iomem.
For example, if the following crashkernel region is added to /proc/iomem:
20000000-11fffffff : Crash kernel
then the following memblock regions System RAM regions fail to be inserted:
00000000-7fffffff : System RAM
80000000-257fffffff : System RAM
Fix this by not adding the crashkernel memory to /proc/iomem on powerpc.
Introduce an architecture hook to let each architecture decide whether to
export the crashkernel region to /proc/iomem.
For more info checkout commit c40dd2f766440 ("powerpc: Add System RAM
to /proc/iomem") and commit bce074bdbc36 ("powerpc: insert System RAM
resource to prevent crashkernel conflict")
Note: Before switching to the generic crashkernel reservation, powerpc
never exported the crashkernel region to /proc/iomem.
Fixes: e3185ee438c2 ("powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation").
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/90937fe0-2e76-4c82-b27e-7b8a7fe3ac69@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/crash_reserve.h | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/crash_reserve.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/crash_reserve.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/crash_reserve.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
index 6467ce29b1fa..d1b570ddbf98 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
@@ -5,4 +5,12 @@
/* crash kernel regions are Page size agliged */
#define CRASH_ALIGN PAGE_SIZE
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION
+static inline bool arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+#define arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem
+#endif
+
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CRASH_RESERVE_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_reserve.h b/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
index 7b44b41d0a20..f0dc03d94ca2 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_reserve.h
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
void __init reserve_crashkernel_cma(unsigned long long cma_size);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION
+#ifndef arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem
+static inline bool arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem(void)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+#endif
#ifndef DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
#define DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE (128UL << 20)
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/crash_reserve.c b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
index 87bf4d41eabb..62e60e0223cf 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_reserve.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel_cma(unsigned long long cma_size)
#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_ADD_CRASH_RES_TO_IOMEM_EARLY
static __init int insert_crashkernel_resources(void)
{
+ if (!arch_add_crash_res_to_iomem())
+ return 0;
+
if (crashk_res.start < crashk_res.end)
insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
--
2.51.0
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