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[v11,11/15] arm64: kexec_file: add crash dump support

Message ID 20180711074203.3019-12-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
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AKASHI Takahiro July 11, 2018, 7:41 a.m. UTC
Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
* prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
  using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
* add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
  "linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
  to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h         |   4 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c        |   9 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

James Morse July 18, 2018, 4:50 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Akashi,

On 11/07/18 08:41, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
> * prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
>   using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
> * add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
>   "linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
>   to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> index 69333694e3e2..eeb5766928b0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
>  struct kimage_arch {
>  	phys_addr_t dtb_mem;
>  	void *dtb_buf;
> +	/* Core ELF header buffer */

> +	void *elf_headers;

Shouldn't this be a phys_addr_t if it comes from kbuf.mem?
(dtb_mem is, and they type tells us which way round the runtime/kexec-time
pointers are)


> +	unsigned long elf_headers_sz;
> +	unsigned long elf_load_addr;
>  };
>  
>  /**


> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> index a0b44fe18b95..261564df7210 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> @@ -132,6 +173,45 @@ static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
> +{
> +	struct crash_mem *cmem;
> +	unsigned int nr_ranges;
> +	int ret;
> +	u64 i;
> +	phys_addr_t start, end;

> +	nr_ranges = 1; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
> +	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
> +							&start, &end, NULL)

Nit: flags = MEMBLOCK_NONE? Just to make it obvious this is how MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
regions are weeded out.

This is going to get interesting if we ever support hotpluggable memory... but
it works for now and implicitly removes the nomap regions.


> +		nr_ranges++;

> +
> +	cmem = kmalloc(sizeof(struct crash_mem) +
> +			sizeof(struct crash_mem_range) * nr_ranges, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!cmem)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
> +	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
> +	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
> +							&start, &end, NULL) {
> +		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
> +		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
> +		cmem->nr_ranges++;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
> +	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);


> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	ret =  crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
> +
> +out:

Nit: You could save the goto if you wrote this as:
|	if (!ret)
|		ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);


> +	kfree(cmem);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>  int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
>  			unsigned long kernel_load_addr,
>  			unsigned long kernel_size,
> @@ -139,11 +219,43 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
>  			char *cmdline, unsigned long cmdline_len)
>  {
>  	struct kexec_buf kbuf;
> +	void *hdrs_addr;
> +	unsigned long hdrs_sz;
>  	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0;
>  	char *dtb = NULL;
>  	unsigned long dtb_len = 0;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> +	/* load elf core header */
> +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
> +		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&hdrs_addr, &hdrs_sz);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
> +			goto out_err;
> +		}
> +
> +		kbuf.image = image;
> +		kbuf.buffer = hdrs_addr;
> +		kbuf.bufsz = hdrs_sz;
> +		kbuf.memsz = hdrs_sz;

> +		kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE;

Whose PAGE_SIZE?

Won't this break if the kdump kernel is 64K pages, but the first kernel uses 4K?
Should we change this to the largest supported PAGE_SIZE: SZ_64K?


> +		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
> +		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
> +		kbuf.top_down = true;
> +
> +		ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			vfree(hdrs_addr);
> +			goto out_err;
> +		}
> +		image->arch.elf_headers = hdrs_addr;
> +		image->arch.elf_headers_sz = hdrs_sz;
> +		image->arch.elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
> +
> +		pr_debug("Loaded elf core header at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
> +				 image->arch.elf_load_addr, hdrs_sz, hdrs_sz);
> +	}
> +
>  	kbuf.image = image;
>  	/* not allocate anything below the kernel */
>  	kbuf.buf_min = kernel_load_addr + kernel_size;


I think the initramfs can escape the crash kernel range because you add to the
buf_max region:
|	/* within 1GB-aligned window of up to 32GB in size */
|	kbuf.buf_max = round_down(kernel_load_addr, SZ_1G)
|				 + (unsigned long)SZ_1G * 32;


I think we need a helper to clamp these min/max ranges to within the crash
kernel range, as its needs doing in a few places.


Thanks,

James
AKASHI Takahiro July 23, 2018, 5:39 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi James,

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 05:50:22PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Akashi,
> 
> On 11/07/18 08:41, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
> > * prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
> >   using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
> > * add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
> >   "linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
> >   to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > index 69333694e3e2..eeb5766928b0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
> >  struct kimage_arch {
> >  	phys_addr_t dtb_mem;
> >  	void *dtb_buf;
> > +	/* Core ELF header buffer */
> 
> > +	void *elf_headers;
> 
> Shouldn't this be a phys_addr_t if it comes from kbuf.mem?

Do you mean elf_load_addr? You're right.
But kexec_buf defined mem as unsigned long and so I'd rather change
dtb_mem to unsigned long instead of elf_load_addr, which will also be
renamed to elf_headers_mem for clarification.

> (dtb_mem is, and they type tells us which way round the runtime/kexec-time
> pointers are)
> 
> 
> > +	unsigned long elf_headers_sz;
> > +	unsigned long elf_load_addr;
> >  };
> >  
> >  /**
> 
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> > index a0b44fe18b95..261564df7210 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> > @@ -132,6 +173,45 @@ static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
> > +{
> > +	struct crash_mem *cmem;
> > +	unsigned int nr_ranges;
> > +	int ret;
> > +	u64 i;
> > +	phys_addr_t start, end;
> 
> > +	nr_ranges = 1; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
> > +	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
> > +							&start, &end, NULL)
> 
> Nit: flags = MEMBLOCK_NONE? Just to make it obvious this is how MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
> regions are weeded out.

OK.

> This is going to get interesting if we ever support hotpluggable memory... but
> it works for now and implicitly removes the nomap regions.
> 
> 
> > +		nr_ranges++;
> 
> > +
> > +	cmem = kmalloc(sizeof(struct crash_mem) +
> > +			sizeof(struct crash_mem_range) * nr_ranges, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!cmem)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
> > +	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
> > +	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
> > +							&start, &end, NULL) {
> > +		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
> > +		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
> > +		cmem->nr_ranges++;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
> > +	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
> 
> 
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +	ret =  crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
> > +
> > +out:
> 
> Nit: You could save the goto if you wrote this as:
> |	if (!ret)
> |		ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);

OK.

> > +	kfree(cmem);
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> >  int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
> >  			unsigned long kernel_load_addr,
> >  			unsigned long kernel_size,
> > @@ -139,11 +219,43 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
> >  			char *cmdline, unsigned long cmdline_len)
> >  {
> >  	struct kexec_buf kbuf;
> > +	void *hdrs_addr;
> > +	unsigned long hdrs_sz;
> >  	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0;
> >  	char *dtb = NULL;
> >  	unsigned long dtb_len = 0;
> >  	int ret = 0;
> >  
> > +	/* load elf core header */
> > +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
> > +		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&hdrs_addr, &hdrs_sz);
> > +		if (ret) {
> > +			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
> > +			goto out_err;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		kbuf.image = image;
> > +		kbuf.buffer = hdrs_addr;
> > +		kbuf.bufsz = hdrs_sz;
> > +		kbuf.memsz = hdrs_sz;
> 
> > +		kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE;
> 
> Whose PAGE_SIZE?
> 
> Won't this break if the kdump kernel is 64K pages, but the first kernel uses 4K?
> Should we change this to the largest supported PAGE_SIZE: SZ_64K?

Ah, yes.

> > +		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
> > +		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
> > +		kbuf.top_down = true;
> > +
> > +		ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
> > +		if (ret) {
> > +			vfree(hdrs_addr);
> > +			goto out_err;
> > +		}
> > +		image->arch.elf_headers = hdrs_addr;
> > +		image->arch.elf_headers_sz = hdrs_sz;
> > +		image->arch.elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
> > +
> > +		pr_debug("Loaded elf core header at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
> > +				 image->arch.elf_load_addr, hdrs_sz, hdrs_sz);
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	kbuf.image = image;
> >  	/* not allocate anything below the kernel */
> >  	kbuf.buf_min = kernel_load_addr + kernel_size;
> 
> 
> I think the initramfs can escape the crash kernel range because you add to the
> buf_max region:
> |	/* within 1GB-aligned window of up to 32GB in size */
> |	kbuf.buf_max = round_down(kernel_load_addr, SZ_1G)
> |				 + (unsigned long)SZ_1G * 32;

No worries.
kexec_add_buffer() will limit the search only within crashk_res anyway.

On the other hand, the code:
> > +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
                (snip)
> > +		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
> > +		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
can be misleading. I will fix it as follows:
|		kbuf.buf_min = kernel_load_addr + kernel_size;
|		kbuf.buf_max = ULONG_MAX;
(and likewise, will fix image_load().)

Thank you again for your valuable comments.
Are you reviewing other patches in my v11?
If not, I will post v12 tomorrow.

-Takahiro AKASHI

> 
> I think we need a helper to clamp these min/max ranges to within the crash
> kernel range, as its needs doing in a few places.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
James Morse July 23, 2018, 5:04 p.m. UTC | #3
Hi Akashi,

On 23/07/18 06:39, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 05:50:22PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
>> On 11/07/18 08:41, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>>> Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
>>> * prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
>>>   using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
>>> * add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
>>>   "linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
>>>   to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>> index 69333694e3e2..eeb5766928b0 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>> @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
>>>  struct kimage_arch {
>>>  	phys_addr_t dtb_mem;
>>>  	void *dtb_buf;
>>> +	/* Core ELF header buffer */
>>
>>> +	void *elf_headers;
>>
>> Shouldn't this be a phys_addr_t if it comes from kbuf.mem?
> 
> Do you mean elf_load_addr? You're right.
> But kexec_buf defined mem as unsigned long and so I'd rather change
> dtb_mem to unsigned long instead of elf_load_addr, which will also be
> renamed to elf_headers_mem for clarification.

>> (dtb_mem is, and they type tells us which way round the runtime/kexec-time
>> pointers are)

My preference would be for physical addresses to always be phys_addr_t, but as
long as we can easily spot the difference kexec-time versus runtime addresses,
it will save bugs where we use the wrong one.


>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>>> index a0b44fe18b95..261564df7210 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>>> @@ -132,6 +173,45 @@ static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,

>>> +		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
>>> +		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
>>> +		kbuf.top_down = true;
>>> +
>>> +		ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
>>> +		if (ret) {
>>> +			vfree(hdrs_addr);
>>> +			goto out_err;
>>> +		}
>>> +		image->arch.elf_headers = hdrs_addr;
>>> +		image->arch.elf_headers_sz = hdrs_sz;
>>> +		image->arch.elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
>>> +
>>> +		pr_debug("Loaded elf core header at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
>>> +				 image->arch.elf_load_addr, hdrs_sz, hdrs_sz);
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>>  	kbuf.image = image;
>>>  	/* not allocate anything below the kernel */
>>>  	kbuf.buf_min = kernel_load_addr + kernel_size;

>> I think the initramfs can escape the crash kernel range because you add to the
>> buf_max region:
>> |	/* within 1GB-aligned window of up to 32GB in size */
>> |	kbuf.buf_max = round_down(kernel_load_addr, SZ_1G)
>> |				 + (unsigned long)SZ_1G * 32;
> 
> No worries.
> kexec_add_buffer() will limit the search only within crashk_res anyway.

via arch_kexec_walk_mem()? Got it.

But strangely the buf_min and buf_max still matter because
locate_mem_hole_callback() uses them.


> Are you reviewing other patches in my v11?
> If not, I will post v12 tomorrow.

No, (I try to batch replies to avoid that happening).
I'm reading up on Secure-boot and trying to test the pe_verification stuff...


Thanks,

James
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
index 69333694e3e2..eeb5766928b0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@  static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
 struct kimage_arch {
 	phys_addr_t dtb_mem;
 	void *dtb_buf;
+	/* Core ELF header buffer */
+	void *elf_headers;
+	unsigned long elf_headers_sz;
+	unsigned long elf_load_addr;
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
index a47cf9bc699e..df1e341d3a28 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
@@ -67,8 +67,13 @@  static void *image_load(struct kimage *image,
 
 	/* Load the kernel */
 	kbuf.image = image;
-	kbuf.buf_min = 0;
-	kbuf.buf_max = ULONG_MAX;
+	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
+		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
+		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
+	} else {
+		kbuf.buf_min = 0;
+		kbuf.buf_max = ULONG_MAX;
+	}
 	kbuf.top_down = false;
 
 	kbuf.buffer = kernel;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index a0b44fe18b95..261564df7210 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ 
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 
 const struct kexec_file_ops * const kexec_file_loaders[] = {
@@ -29,6 +31,10 @@  int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
 	vfree(image->arch.dtb_buf);
 	image->arch.dtb_buf = NULL;
 
+	vfree(image->arch.elf_headers);
+	image->arch.elf_headers = NULL;
+	image->arch.elf_headers_sz = 0;
+
 	return kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default(image);
 }
 
@@ -38,13 +44,31 @@  static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
 		char **dtb_buf, size_t *dtb_buf_len)
 {
 	char *buf = NULL;
-	size_t buf_size;
+	size_t buf_size, range_size;
 	int nodeoffset;
 	u64 value;
 	int ret;
 
+	/* check ranges against root's #address-cells and #size-cells */
+	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH &&
+		(!of_fdt_cells_size_fitted(image->arch.elf_load_addr,
+				image->arch.elf_headers_sz) ||
+		 !of_fdt_cells_size_fitted(crashk_res.start,
+				crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1))) {
+		pr_err("Crash memory region doesn't fit into DT's root cell sizes.\n");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_err;
+	}
+
 	/* duplicate dt blob */
 	buf_size = fdt_totalsize(initial_boot_params);
+	range_size = of_fdt_reg_cells_size();
+
+	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
+		buf_size += fdt_prop_len("linux,elfcorehdr", range_size);
+		buf_size += fdt_prop_len("linux,usable-memory-range",
+								range_size);
+	}
 
 	if (initrd_load_addr) {
 		/* can be redundant, but trimmed at the end */
@@ -74,6 +98,23 @@  static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 
+	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
+		/* add linux,elfcorehdr */
+		ret = fdt_setprop_reg(buf, nodeoffset, "linux,elfcorehdr",
+				image->arch.elf_load_addr,
+				image->arch.elf_headers_sz);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_err;
+
+		/* add linux,usable-memory-range */
+		ret = fdt_setprop_reg(buf, nodeoffset,
+				"linux,usable-memory-range",
+				crashk_res.start,
+				crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_err;
+	}
+
 	/* add bootargs */
 	if (cmdline) {
 		ret = fdt_setprop_string(buf, nodeoffset, "bootargs", cmdline);
@@ -132,6 +173,45 @@  static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
+{
+	struct crash_mem *cmem;
+	unsigned int nr_ranges;
+	int ret;
+	u64 i;
+	phys_addr_t start, end;
+
+	nr_ranges = 1; /* for exclusion of crashkernel region */
+	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
+							&start, &end, NULL)
+		nr_ranges++;
+
+	cmem = kmalloc(sizeof(struct crash_mem) +
+			sizeof(struct crash_mem_range) * nr_ranges, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!cmem)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	cmem->max_nr_ranges = nr_ranges;
+	cmem->nr_ranges = 0;
+	for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0,
+							&start, &end, NULL) {
+		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].start = start;
+		cmem->ranges[cmem->nr_ranges].end = end - 1;
+		cmem->nr_ranges++;
+	}
+
+	/* Exclude crashkernel region */
+	ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	ret =  crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
+
+out:
+	kfree(cmem);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 			unsigned long kernel_load_addr,
 			unsigned long kernel_size,
@@ -139,11 +219,43 @@  int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 			char *cmdline, unsigned long cmdline_len)
 {
 	struct kexec_buf kbuf;
+	void *hdrs_addr;
+	unsigned long hdrs_sz;
 	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0;
 	char *dtb = NULL;
 	unsigned long dtb_len = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	/* load elf core header */
+	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
+		ret = prepare_elf_headers(&hdrs_addr, &hdrs_sz);
+		if (ret) {
+			pr_err("Preparing elf core header failed\n");
+			goto out_err;
+		}
+
+		kbuf.image = image;
+		kbuf.buffer = hdrs_addr;
+		kbuf.bufsz = hdrs_sz;
+		kbuf.memsz = hdrs_sz;
+		kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE;
+		kbuf.buf_min = crashk_res.start;
+		kbuf.buf_max = crashk_res.end + 1;
+		kbuf.top_down = true;
+
+		ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
+		if (ret) {
+			vfree(hdrs_addr);
+			goto out_err;
+		}
+		image->arch.elf_headers = hdrs_addr;
+		image->arch.elf_headers_sz = hdrs_sz;
+		image->arch.elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
+
+		pr_debug("Loaded elf core header at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
+				 image->arch.elf_load_addr, hdrs_sz, hdrs_sz);
+	}
+
 	kbuf.image = image;
 	/* not allocate anything below the kernel */
 	kbuf.buf_min = kernel_load_addr + kernel_size;