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When CPU or memory is hot un/plugged, or off/onlined, the crash elfcorehdr, which describes the CPUs and memory in the system, must also be updated. A new elfcorehdr is generated from the available CPUs and memory and replaces the existing elfcorehdr. The segment containing the elfcorehdr is identified at run-time in crash_core:crash_handle_hotplug_event(). No modifications to purgatory (see 'kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest') or boot_params (as the elfcorehdr= capture kernel command line parameter pointer remains unchanged and correct) are needed, just elfcorehdr. For kexec_file_load(), the elfcorehdr segment size is based on NR_CPUS and CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES in order to accommodate a growing number of CPU and memory resources. For kexec_load(), the userspace kexec utility needs to size the elfcorehdr segment in the same/similar manner. To accommodate kexec_load() syscall in the absence of kexec_file_load() syscall support, prepare_elf_headers() and dependents are moved outside of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. [eric.devolder@oracle.com: correct unused function build error] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821182644.2143-1-eric.devolder@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-6-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.