kdumpst-load/config: Add option to use crashkernel as pstore/ram memory
Currently kdumpst only allows a proper RAM buffer to be used as ramoops memory area - this is the proper way of doing that, but there are cases in which it's not trivial to have these buffers available: (a) In case it's not there by default (due to kernel alignment / device-tree) for example, there is no easy parameter to reserve such area right now (using mem= is the way to go, but a bit complex to gather the exact size). (b) The kernel parameter crashkernel= does something like this: reserve a piece of memory not to be used by the kernel. It's meant for kdump, but can be (ab)used for other purposes. So, we hereby add a way for kdumpst to make use of crash reserved area if the users wish so; the risks are exposed in the config file text. Also, since we're changing this code, take the opportunity to improve the sanitization of addresses from /proc/iomem and fix a corner case of empty RANGE in the iomem parsing routine. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
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# relies in having an available RAM buffer on /proc/iomem with at least
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# PSTORE_MEM_AMOUNT (decimal, in MB) in size. Also, kernel must be able to
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# allocate a contiguous memory amount of PSTORE_RECORD_SZ (decimal, MB).
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# If there is no such RAM buffer, there is a possibility to make use of
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# the crash kernel area for that. There are risks: such memory area could
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# have its address mapped differently across kernel updates; also if both
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# pstore and the kdump kernel are loaded, that memory region will be for
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# sure corrupted by the kexec panic load - so, kind of a last resource.
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USE_PSTORE_RAM=1
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PSTORE_MEM_AMOUNT=4194304
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PSTORE_RECORD_SZ=1048576
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PSTORE_RAM_USE_CRASH_MEM=0
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#
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#
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# Mount-related options
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