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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst | 10 |
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory index a95e0f17c35a..cec65827e602 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory @@ -115,6 +115,6 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug Date: Aug 2023 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: - (RO) indicates whether or not the kernel directly supports - modifying the crash elfcorehdr for memory hot un/plug and/or - on/offline changes. + (RO) indicates whether or not the kernel updates relevant kexec + segments on memory hot un/plug and/or on/offline events, avoiding the + need to reload kdump kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index de725ca3be82..206079d3bd5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -704,9 +704,9 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug Date: Aug 2023 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: - (RO) indicates whether or not the kernel directly supports - modifying the crash elfcorehdr for CPU hot un/plug and/or - on/offline changes. + (RO) indicates whether or not the kernel updates relevant kexec + segments on memory hot un/plug and/or on/offline events, avoiding the + need to reload kdump kernel. What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/enabled Date: Nov 2022 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 098f14d83e99..cb2c080f400c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -294,8 +294,9 @@ The following files are currently defined: ``crash_hotplug`` read-only: when changes to the system memory map occur due to hot un/plug of memory, this file contains '1' if the kernel updates the kdump capture kernel memory - map itself (via elfcorehdr), or '0' if userspace must update - the kdump capture kernel memory map. + map itself (via elfcorehdr and other relevant kexec + segments), or '0' if userspace must update the kdump + capture kernel memory map. Availability depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel configuration option. diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst b/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst index dcb0e379e5e8..a21dbf261be7 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst @@ -737,8 +737,9 @@ can process the event further. When changes to the CPUs in the system occur, the sysfs file /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug contains '1' if the kernel -updates the kdump capture kernel list of CPUs itself (via elfcorehdr), -or '0' if userspace must update the kdump capture kernel list of CPUs. +updates the kdump capture kernel list of CPUs itself (via elfcorehdr and +other relevant kexec segment), or '0' if userspace must update the kdump +capture kernel list of CPUs. The availability depends on the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU kernel configuration option. @@ -750,8 +751,9 @@ file can be used in a udev rule as follows: SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" For a CPU hot un/plug event, if the architecture supports kernel updates -of the elfcorehdr (which contains the list of CPUs), then the rule skips -the unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel. +of the elfcorehdr (which contains the list of CPUs) and other relevant +kexec segments, then the rule skips the unload-then-reload of the kdump +capture kernel. Kernel Inline Documentations Reference ====================================== |