1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2 #include <linux/kernel.h>
3 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
4 #include <linux/init.h>
5 #include <linux/errno.h>
6 #include <linux/export.h>
9 * If we have booted due to a crash, max_pfn will be a very low value. We need
10 * to know the amount of memory that the previous kernel used.
12 unsigned long saved_max_pfn;
15 * stores the physical address of elf header of crash image
17 * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
18 * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence put
19 * it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
21 unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
22 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(elfcorehdr_addr);
25 * stores the size of elf header of crash image
27 unsigned long long elfcorehdr_size;
30 * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed
31 * kernel. This option will be passed by kexec loader to the capture kernel.
33 * Syntax: elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]
35 static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
40 elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end);
42 elfcorehdr_size = elfcorehdr_addr;
43 elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(end + 1, &end);
45 return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL;
47 early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);