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From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com,
	kernel@gpiccoli.net, gpiccoli@igalia.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/memblock: Add reserve_mem debugfs info
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:45:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260217195816.861684-3-gpiccoli@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260217195816.861684-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com>

When using the "reserve_mem" parameter, users aim at having an
area that (hopefully) persists across boots, so pstore infrastructure
(like ramoops module) can make use of that to save oops/ftrace logs,
for example.

There is no easy way to determine if this kernel parameter is properly
set though; the kernel doesn't show information about this memory in
memblock debugfs, neither in /proc/iomem (like unused memory "set" using
"mem=") nor in the kernel log (like the "crashkernel" parameter does).

Add here a new file under memblock debugfs showing properly set memory
reservations, with name, address and size as passed to "reserve_mem".

Notice this addition makes the memblock folder *always available* under
debugfs, regardless of ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK and even if there is no
"reserve_mem=" setting in the command-line.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
---
 mm/memblock.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 2d2646f7a120..58439de0a59b 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 #include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
@@ -2711,7 +2715,7 @@ static int __init reserve_mem(char *p)
 }
 __setup("reserve_mem=", reserve_mem);
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) && defined(CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 static const char * const flagname[] = {
 	[ilog2(MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG)] = "HOTPLUG",
 	[ilog2(MEMBLOCK_MIRROR)] = "MIRROR",
@@ -2722,7 +2726,8 @@ static const char * const flagname[] = {
 	[ilog2(MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH)] = "KHO_SCRATCH",
 };
 
-static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
+static void memblock_debugfs_files(struct seq_file *m)
 {
 	struct memblock_type *type = m->private;
 	struct memblock_region *reg;
@@ -2754,6 +2759,30 @@ static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private)
 			seq_printf(m, "%s\n", "NONE");
 		}
 	}
+}
+#else
+static void memblock_debugfs_files(struct seq_file *m) {}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK */
+
+static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private)
+{
+	if (m->private == &reserved_mem_table[0]) {
+		struct reserve_mem_table *map;
+		char txtsz[16];
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < reserved_mem_count; i++) {
+			map = &reserved_mem_table[i];
+			if (!map->size)
+				continue;
+
+			memset(txtsz, 0, 16);
+			string_get_size((u64)(map->size), 1, STRING_UNITS_2, txtsz, 16);
+			seq_printf(m, "%s\t\t%pa\t(%s)\n",
+				map->name, &map->start, txtsz);
+		}
+	} else
+		memblock_debugfs_files(m);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(memblock_debug);
@@ -2762,6 +2791,9 @@ static int __init memblock_init_debugfs(void)
 {
 	struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("memblock", NULL);
 
+	debugfs_create_file("reserve_mem_param", 0444, root,
+			    &reserved_mem_table[0], &memblock_debug_fops);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
 	debugfs_create_file("memory", 0444, root,
 			    &memblock.memory, &memblock_debug_fops);
 	debugfs_create_file("reserved", 0444, root,
@@ -2771,6 +2803,7 @@ static int __init memblock_init_debugfs(void)
 			    &memblock_debug_fops);
 #endif
 
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK */
 	return 0;
 }
 __initcall(memblock_init_debugfs);
-- 
2.50.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-17 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-17 19:45 [PATCH 0/2] Some small improvements to reserve_mem Guilherme G. Piccoli
2026-02-17 19:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/memblock: Print out errors on reserve_mem parser Guilherme G. Piccoli
2026-02-17 19:45 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli [this message]
2026-02-18  0:15   ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/memblock: Add reserve_mem debugfs info kernel test robot
2026-02-18  0:26   ` kernel test robot
2026-02-21  8:52   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-21  8:29 ` [PATCH 0/2] Some small improvements to reserve_mem Mike Rapoport

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