From: Sourabh Jain Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:51:53 +0000 (+0530) Subject: Documentation/ABI: add kexec and kdump sysfs interface X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~70^2~65 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fdd76c8d6327e616ee61ddd00db16753d722168c;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git Documentation/ABI: add kexec and kdump sysfs interface Add an ABI document for following kexec and kdump sysfs interface: - /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded - /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded - /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size - /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251117035153.1199665-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Cc: Aditya Gupta Cc: Baoquan he Cc: Dave Young Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Jiri Bohac Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar Cc: Pingfan Liu Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: Shivang Upadhyay Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..96b24565b68e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a new kernel image has been loaded + into memory using the kexec system call. It shows 1 if + a kexec image is present and ready to boot, or 0 if none + is loaded. +User: kexec tools, kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded +Date: Jun 2006 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates whether a crash (kdump) kernel is currently + loaded into memory. It shows 1 if a crash kernel has been + successfully loaded for panic handling, or 0 if no crash + kernel is present. +User: Kexec tools, Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size +Date: Dec 2009 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read/write + Shows the amount of memory reserved for loading the crash + (kdump) kernel. It reports the size, in bytes, of the + crash kernel area defined by the crashkernel= parameter. + This interface also allows reducing the crashkernel + reservation by writing a smaller value, and the reclaimed + space is added back to the system RAM. +User: Kdump service + +What: /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size +Date: Aug 2023 +Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org +Description: read only + Indicates the preferred size of the memory buffer for the + ELF core header used by the crash (kdump) kernel. It defines + how much space is needed to hold metadata about the crashed + system, including CPU and memory information. This information + is used by the user space utility kexec to support updating the + in-kernel kdump image during hotplug operations. +User: Kexec tools