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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt index 6ae9d82d4c37..b5e39af4ddc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt @@ -52,3 +52,48 @@ This property is set (currently only on PowerPC, and only needed on book3e) by some versions of kexec-tools to tell the new kernel that it is being booted by kexec, as the booting environment may differ (e.g. a different secondary CPU release mechanism) + +linux,usable-memory-range +------------------------- + +This property (arm64 only) holds a base address and size, describing a +limited region in which memory may be considered available for use by +the kernel. Memory outside of this range is not available for use. + +This property describes a limitation: memory within this range is only +valid when also described through another mechanism that the kernel +would otherwise use to determine available memory (e.g. memory nodes +or the EFI memory map). Valid memory may be sparse within the range. +e.g. + +/ { + chosen { + linux,usable-memory-range = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>; + }; +}; + +The main usage is for crash dump kernel to identify its own usable +memory and exclude, at its boot time, any other memory areas that are +part of the panicked kernel's memory. + +While this property does not represent a real hardware, the address +and the size are expressed in #address-cells and #size-cells, +respectively, of the root node. + +linux,elfcorehdr +---------------- + +This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range, +the address and the size, of the elf core header which mainly describes +the panicked kernel's memory layout as PT_LOAD segments of elf format. +e.g. + +/ { + chosen { + linux,elfcorehdr = <0x9 0xfffff000 0x0 0x800>; + }; +}; + +While this property does not represent a real hardware, the address +and the size are expressed in #address-cells and #size-cells, +respectively, of the root node. |