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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -0800 |
| commit | 509d3f45847627f4c5cdce004c3ec79262b5239c (patch) | |
| tree | 3f5d650b393eeb0e560f78958bb20d6645ca55e0 /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | 09670b8c38b37bc2d6fc5d01fa7e02c38f7adf36 (diff) | |
| parent | aa514a297a0c175239f24a2e582ebd37f0727494 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
/sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
calibrate: update header inclusion
Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
test_kho: always print restore status
kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 71 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 61 |
2 files changed, 132 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ba26a6a1d2be --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +NOTE: all the ABIs listed in this file are deprecated and will be removed after 2028. + +Here are the alternative ABIs: ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| Deprecated | Alternative | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded | /sys/kernel/kexec/loaded | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_loaded | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_size | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_elfcorehdr_size | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_cma_ranges | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_cma_ranges | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ + + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a new kernel image has been loaded + into memory using the kexec system call. It shows 1 if + a kexec image is present and ready to boot, or 0 if none + is loaded. +User: kexec tools, kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a crash (kdump) kernel is currently + loaded into memory. It shows 1 if a crash kernel has been + successfully loaded for panic handling, or 0 if no crash + kernel is present. +User: Kexec tools, Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size +Date: Dec 2009 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read/write + Shows the amount of memory reserved for loading the crash + (kdump) kernel. It reports the size, in bytes, of the + crash kernel area defined by the crashkernel= parameter. + This interface also allows reducing the crashkernel + reservation by writing a smaller value, and the reclaimed + space is added back to the system RAM. +User: Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size +Date: Aug 2023 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates the preferred size of the memory buffer for the + ELF core header used by the crash (kdump) kernel. It defines + how much space is needed to hold metadata about the crashed + system, including CPU and memory information. This information + 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@lists.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/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f59051b5d96d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/* +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: + The /sys/kernel/kexec/* directory contains sysfs files + that provide information about the configuration status + of kexec and kdump. + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/loaded +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a new kernel image has been loaded + into memory using the kexec system call. It shows 1 if + a kexec image is present and ready to boot, or 0 if none + is loaded. +User: kexec tools, kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_loaded +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a crash (kdump) kernel is currently + loaded into memory. It shows 1 if a crash kernel has been + successfully loaded for panic handling, or 0 if no crash + kernel is present. +User: Kexec tools, Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_size +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read/write + Shows the amount of memory reserved for loading the crash + (kdump) kernel. It reports the size, in bytes, of the + crash kernel area defined by the crashkernel= parameter. + This interface also allows reducing the crashkernel + reservation by writing a smaller value, and the reclaimed + space is added back to the system RAM. +User: Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_elfcorehdr_size +Date: Nov 2025 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates the preferred size of the memory buffer for the + ELF core header used by the crash (kdump) kernel. It defines + how much space is needed to hold metadata about the crashed + system, including CPU and memory information. This information + 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@lists.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 |
