Re: [PATCH v6 10/10] crash_core: skip MEMBLOCK_NODUMP regions when building vmcore ELF header

From: Baoquan He

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 04:10:04 EST


On 09/02/26 at 03:31pm, Wandun Chen wrote:
> From: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reserve regions (for GPU, DSP, ...) carry no data useful for crash
> analysis. Exclude MEMBLOCK_NODUMP regions from the vmcore ELF header to
> reduce vmcore size and capture time. crash_should_skip_region() now also
> returns true for MEMBLOCK_NODUMP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/crash_core.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> index bd64cf585795..b0e618e13588 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> @@ -270,10 +270,10 @@ int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
> return 0;
> }
>
> -/* Exclude NOMAP regions from the vmcore. */
> +/* Exclude NOMAP and NODUMP regions from the vmcore. */
> static bool crash_should_skip_region(struct memblock_region *reg)
> {
> - return memblock_is_nomap(reg);
> + return memblock_is_nomap(reg) || memblock_is_nodump(reg);
> }
>
> static struct crash_mem *alloc_cmem(unsigned int nr_ranges)
> --
> 2.43.0
>