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