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From: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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	x86@kernel.org,  Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 17/17] Documentation: KHO: Add memblock bindings
Date: Fri,  9 May 2025 00:46:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250509074635.3187114-18-changyuanl@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250509074635.3187114-1-changyuanl@google.com>

From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>

We introduced KHO into Linux: A framework that allows Linux to pass
metadata and memory across kexec from Linux to Linux. KHO reuses fdt
as file format and shares a lot of the same properties of firmware-to-
Linux boot formats: It needs a stable, documented ABI that allows for
forward and backward compatibility as well as versioning.

As first user of KHO, we introduced memblock which can now preserve
memory ranges reserved with reserve_mem command line options contents
across kexec, so you can use the post-kexec kernel to read traces from
the pre-kexec kernel.

This patch adds memblock schemas similar to "device" device tree ones to
a new kho bindings directory. This allows us to force contributors to
document the data that moves across KHO kexecs and catch breaking change
during review.

Co-developed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
---
 .../kho/bindings/memblock/memblock.yaml       | 39 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../kho/bindings/memblock/reserve-mem.yaml    | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/memblock.yaml
 create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/reserve-mem.yaml

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/memblock.yaml b/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/memblock.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d388c28eb91d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/memblock.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+title: Memblock reserved memory
+
+maintainers:
+  - Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
+
+description: |
+  Memblock can serialize its current memory reservations created with
+  reserve_mem command line option across kexec through KHO.
+  The post-KHO kernel can then consume these reservations and they are
+  guaranteed to have the same physical address.
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    enum:
+      - reserve-mem-v1
+
+patternProperties:
+  "$[0-9a-f_]+^":
+    $ref: reserve-mem.yaml#
+    description: reserved memory regions
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    memblock {
+      compatible = "memblock-v1";
+      n1 {
+        compatible = "reserve-mem-v1";
+        start = <0xc06b 0x4000000>;
+        size = <0x04 0x00>;
+      };
+    };
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/reserve-mem.yaml b/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/reserve-mem.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..10282d3d1bcdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/reserve-mem.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+title: Memblock reserved memory regions
+
+maintainers:
+  - Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
+
+description: |
+  Memblock can serialize its current memory reservations created with
+  reserve_mem command line option across kexec through KHO.
+  This object describes each such region.
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    enum:
+      - reserve-mem-v1
+
+  start:
+    description: |
+      physical address (u64) of the reserved memory region.
+
+  size:
+    description: |
+      size (u64) of the reserved memory region.
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+  - start
+  - size
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    n1 {
+      compatible = "reserve-mem-v1";
+      start = <0xc06b 0x4000000>;
+      size = <0x04 0x00>;
+    };
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 72345ca65edda..d7bd49dae2e0c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15447,6 +15447,7 @@ M:	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/core-api/boot-time-mm.rst
+F:	Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/memblock/*
 F:	include/linux/memblock.h
 F:	mm/memblock.c
 F:	mm/mm_init.c
-- 
2.49.0.1015.ga840276032-goog



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-09  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-09  7:46 [PATCH v8 00/17] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 01/17] memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag Changyuan Lyu
2025-10-10  9:33   ` Breno Leitao
2025-10-13 14:59     ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-10-13 16:40       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-10-14  8:34         ` Breno Leitao
2025-10-14 13:10           ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-05 10:18             ` Breno Leitao
2025-11-06  8:24               ` Mike Rapoport
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 02/17] memblock: Add support for scratch memory Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 03/17] memblock: introduce memmap_init_kho_scratch() Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 04/17] kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 05/17] kexec: add KHO parsing support Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 06/17] kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 07/17] kexec: add KHO support to kexec file loads Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 08/17] kexec: add config option for KHO Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 09/17] arm64: add KHO support Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 10/17] x86/setup: use memblock_reserve_kern for memory used by kernel Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 11/17] x86/kexec: add support for passing kexec handover (KHO) data Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 12/17] x86/e820: temporarily enable KHO scratch for memory below 1M Changyuan Lyu
2025-11-24 19:24   ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25  0:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-11-25 12:23       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-25 13:53       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 13:15     ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-25 13:50       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 18:47         ` Usama Arif
2025-11-26  6:14           ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26  7:25             ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25 14:31       ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25 14:39         ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 13/17] x86/boot: make sure KASLR does not step over KHO preserved memory Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 14/17] x86/Kconfig: enable kexec handover for 64 bits Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 15/17] memblock: add KHO support for reserve_mem Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 16/17] Documentation: add documentation for KHO Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` Changyuan Lyu [this message]
2025-12-11  3:00   ` [PATCH v8 17/17] Documentation: KHO: Add memblock bindings Ricardo Neri

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