linux-kernel - [PATCH v5] crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspace

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Message-ID: <20251117041905.1277801-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:49:05 +0530
From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Aditya Gupta <adityag@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Baoquan he <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Pingfan Liu <piliu@...hat.com>,
        "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>,
        Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5] crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspace

Add a sysfs entry /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges to expose all
CMA crashkernel ranges.

This allows userspace tools configuring kdump to determine how much
memory is reserved for crashkernel. If CMA is used, tools can warn
users when attempting to capture user pages with CMA reservation.

The new sysfs hold the CMA ranges in below format:

cat /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges
100000000-10c7fffff

There are already four kexec and kdump sysfs entries under /sys/kernel.
Adding more entries there would clutter the directory. To avoid this,
the new crash_cma_ranges sysfs entry is placed in a new kexec node under
/sys/kernel/.

The reason for not including Crash CMA Ranges in /proc/iomem is to avoid
conflicts. It has been observed that contiguous memory ranges are sometimes
shown as two separate System RAM entries in /proc/iomem. If a CMA range
overlaps two System RAM ranges, adding crashk_res to /proc/iomem can create
a conflict. Reference [1] describes one such instance on the PowerPC
architecture.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251016142831.144515-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com/ [1]

Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@...hat.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>
---

Changelog:

v4 -> v5:
 https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251114152550.ac2dd5e23542f09c62defec7@linux-foundation.org/
 - Splitted patch from the above patch series.
 - Code to create kexec node under /sys/kernel is added, eariler it was
   done in [02/05] of the above patch series.

Note:
This patch is dependent on the below patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117035153.1199665-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com/

---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump      | 10 ++++
 kernel/kexec_core.c                           | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
index 96b24565b68e..320ec75a4903 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
@@ -41,3 +41,13 @@ Description:	read only
 		is used by the user space utility kexec to support updating the
 		in-kernel kdump image during hotplug operations.
 User:		Kexec tools
+
+What:		/sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges
+Date:		Nov 2025
+Contact:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
+Description:	read only
+		Provides information about the memory ranges reserved from
+		the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) area that are allocated
+		to the crash (kdump) kernel. It lists the start and end physical
+		addresses of CMA regions assigned for crashkernel use.
+User:		kdump service
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index fa00b239c5d9..51b1e0985eac 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <linux/objtool.h>
 #include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
 #include <linux/dma-map-ops.h>
+#include <linux/sysfs.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -1229,3 +1230,52 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
 	kexec_unlock();
 	return error;
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE
+static ssize_t crash_cma_ranges_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+				     struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+
+	ssize_t len = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < crashk_cma_cnt; ++i) {
+		len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, "%08llx-%08llx\n",
+				     crashk_cma_ranges[i].start,
+				     crashk_cma_ranges[i].end);
+	}
+	return len;
+}
+static struct kobj_attribute crash_cma_ranges_attr = __ATTR_RO(crash_cma_ranges);
+
+static struct attribute *kexec_attrs[] = {
+	&crash_cma_ranges_attr.attr,
+	NULL
+};
+
+static struct kobject *kexec_kobj;
+ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(kexec);
+
+static int __init init_kexec_sysctl(void)
+{
+	int error;
+
+	kexec_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("kexec", kernel_kobj);
+	if (!kexec_kobj) {
+		pr_err("failed to create kexec kobject\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	error = sysfs_create_groups(kexec_kobj, kexec_groups);
+	if (error)
+		goto kset_exit;
+
+	return 0;
+
+kset_exit:
+	kobject_put(kexec_kobj);
+	return error;
+}
+
+subsys_initcall(init_kexec_sysctl);
+#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE */
-- 
2.51.1