[PATCH v2 6/8] arm64: kdump: exclude non-dumpable reserved memory regions from vmcore
From: Wandun Chen
Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 05:22:00 EST
From: Wandun Chen <chenwandun1@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reserved memory regions are excluded from vmcore by default unless
marked dumpable. Honor the dumpable flag to filter out device firmware
regions (e.g., GPU, DSP, modem) reserved via device tree, since they
typically contain data not useful for kernel crash analysis and can
significantly increase vmcore size.
Use of_reserved_mem_kdump_exclude() to perform the exclusion, and
pre-size the crash_mem array via of_reserved_mem_kdump_nr_ranges().
Signed-off-by: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index e31fabed378a..1d65320c6ba4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
+#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
nr_ranges = 2; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
nr_ranges++;
+ nr_ranges += of_reserved_mem_kdump_nr_ranges();
cmem = kmalloc_flex(*cmem, ranges, nr_ranges);
if (!cmem)
@@ -75,6 +77,10 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
goto out;
}
+ ret = of_reserved_mem_kdump_exclude(cmem);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
out:
--
2.43.0