linux/kernel
Sourabh Jain cf4340bdd9 kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
Patch series "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs", v6.

All existing kexec and kdump sysfs entries are moved to a new location,
/sys/kernel/kexec, to keep /sys/kernel/ clean and better organized.
Symlinks are created at the old locations for backward compatibility and
can be removed in the future [01/03].

While doing this cleanup, the old kexec and kdump sysfs entries are
marked as deprecated in the existing ABI documentation [02/03]. This
makes it clear that these older interfaces should no longer be used.
New ABI documentation is added to describe the reorganized interfaces
[03/03], so users and tools can rely on the updated sysfs interfaces
going forward.


This patch (of 3):

Several kexec and kdump sysfs entries are currently placed directly under
/sys/kernel/, which clutters the directory and makes it harder to identify
unrelated entries.  To improve organization and readability, these entries
are now moved under a dedicated directory, /sys/kernel/kexec.

The following sysfs moved under new kexec sysfs node
+------------------------------------+------------------+
|    Old sysfs name         |     New sysfs name        |
|  (under /sys/kernel)      | (under /sys/kernel/kexec) |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| kexec_loaded              | loaded                    |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| kexec_crash_loaded        | crash_loaded              |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| kexec_crash_size          | crash_size                |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| crash_elfcorehdr_size     | crash_elfcorehdr_size     |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| kexec_crash_cma_ranges    | crash_cma_ranges          |
+---------------------------+---------------------------+

For backward compatibility, symlinks are created at the old locations so
that existing tools and scripts continue to work.  These symlinks can be
removed in the future once users have switched to the new path.

While creating symlinks, entries are added in /sys/kernel/ that point to
their new locations under /sys/kernel/kexec/.  If an error occurs while
adding a symlink, it is logged but does not stop initialization of the
remaining kexec sysfs symlinks.

The /sys/kernel/<crash_elfcorehdr_size | kexec/crash_elfcorehdr_size>
entry is now controlled by CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP instead of
CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO, as CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP also enables CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118114507.1769455-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118114507.1769455-2-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
..
bpf bpf: Conditionally include dynptr copy kfuncs 2025-10-24 09:44:47 -07:00
cgroup cgroup: Fixes for v6.18-rc2 2025-10-20 09:41:27 -10:00
configs hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time 2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
debug kdb: remove redundant check for scancode 0xe0 2025-09-20 21:19:09 +01:00
dma dma-debug: don't report false positives with DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC 2025-10-15 13:24:33 -07:00
entry hyperv-next for v6.18 2025-10-07 08:40:15 -07:00
events perf/core: Fix system hang caused by cpu-clock usage 2025-11-03 11:04:19 +01:00
futex futex: Optimize per-cpu reference counting 2025-11-06 12:30:54 +01:00
gcov gcov: add support for GCC 15 2025-11-09 21:19:44 -08:00
irq genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to enable_irq() 2025-10-24 11:38:39 +02:00
kcsan Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) updates for v6.18 2025-10-02 08:31:44 -07:00
livepatch sched,livepatch: Untangle cond_resched() and live-patching 2025-05-14 13:16:24 +02:00
liveupdate kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() 2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
locking locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked(). 2025-09-29 09:42:35 +02:00
module taint/module: remove unnecessary taint_flag.module field 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
power PM: sleep: Allow pm_restrict_gfp_mask() stacking 2025-10-29 18:55:32 +01:00
printk printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
rcu hyperv-next for v6.18 2025-10-07 08:40:15 -07:00
sched sched/fair: Prevent cfs_rq from being unthrottled with zero runtime_remaining 2025-11-06 12:30:52 +01:00
time timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound 2025-10-20 19:56:12 +02:00
trace Fixes for tracing: 2025-11-07 08:07:11 -08:00
unwind unwind: Finish up unwind when a task exits 2025-07-31 10:20:11 -04:00
.gitignore kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when a file is modified within a minute 2025-06-24 20:30:37 +09:00
acct.c kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment 2025-09-27 20:13:56 -04:00
async.c
audit.c audit: fix skb leak when audit rate limit is exceeded 2025-09-10 19:55:00 -04:00
audit.h audit: create audit_stamp structure 2025-08-30 10:15:28 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit 2025-09-23 12:37:35 +02:00
audit_tree.c mount-related stuff for this cycle 2025-10-03 10:19:44 -07:00
audit_watch.c VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit 2025-09-23 12:37:35 +02:00
auditfilter.c audit/stable-6.18 PR 20250926 2025-09-30 08:22:16 -07:00
auditsc.c audit: add record for multiple object contexts 2025-08-30 10:15:30 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c capability: Remove unused has_capability 2025-03-07 22:03:09 -06:00
cfi.c cfi: Move BPF CFI types and helpers to generic code 2025-07-31 18:23:53 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning 2025-03-04 18:44:29 -08:00
cpu.c cpu: Remove obsolete comment from takedown_cpu() 2025-08-06 22:48:12 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c crash: fix crashkernel resource shrink 2025-11-15 10:52:01 -08:00
crash_core_test.c crash: add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range 2025-09-13 17:32:55 -07:00
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel 2025-05-21 10:48:21 -07:00
crash_reserve.c crash: let architecture decide crash memory export to iomem_resource 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
cred.c copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01 15:31:34 +02:00
delayacct.c delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation 2025-05-27 19:40:33 -07:00
dma.c
elfcorehdr.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c release_task: kill unnecessary rcu_read_lock() around dec_rlimit_ucounts() 2025-11-12 10:00:17 -08:00
exit.h
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c fork: stop ignoring NUMA while handling cached thread stacks 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
freezer.c mm/oom_kill: thaw the entire OOM victim process 2025-09-21 14:22:35 -07:00
gen_kheaders.sh kheaders: make it possible to override TAR 2025-08-06 10:23:36 +09:00
groups.c
hung_task.c hung_task: add hung_task_sys_info sysctl to dump sys info on task-hung 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
iomem.c mm/memremap: Pass down MEMREMAP_* flags to arch_memremap_wb() 2025-02-21 15:05:38 +01:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address(). 2025-03-10 11:54:46 +01:00
kallsyms.c bpf: Clean up individual BTF_ID code 2025-07-16 18:34:42 -07:00
kallsyms_internal.h
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() 2025-09-28 11:36:14 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kcmp.c kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons 2025-02-21 10:25:33 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: Fix "select" wording on HZ_250 description 2025-02-21 09:20:30 +01:00
Kconfig.kexec liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT 2025-09-17 16:25:41 +02:00
kcov.c kcov: use write memory barrier after memcpy() in kcov_move_area() 2025-09-13 17:32:44 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec 2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
kexec_elf.c kexec: initialize ELF lowest address to ULONG_MAX 2025-03-16 22:30:47 -07:00
kexec_file.c x86/kexec: carry forward the boot DTB on kexec 2025-09-13 17:32:43 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
kheaders.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Add missing kerneldoc for __get_insn_slot 2025-07-15 18:45:34 +09:00
kstack_erase.c stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth 2025-07-21 21:40:39 -07:00
ksyms_common.c
ksysfs.c kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec 2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
kthread.c ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinity 2025-08-13 08:34:33 +02:00
latencytop.c
Makefile liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c
nscommon.c ns: drop assert 2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
nsproxy.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
nstree.c ns: move ns type into struct ns_common 2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
padata.c padata: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users 2025-09-13 12:11:06 +08:00
panic.c panic: sys_info: align constant definition names with parameters 2025-11-20 14:03:40 -08:00
params.c params: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() and memcpy() 2025-08-16 21:47:25 +02:00
pid.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
pid_namespace.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
pid_sysctl.h
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request 2025-05-11 17:48:15 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
regset.c
relay.c relayfs: support a counter tracking if data is too big to write 2025-07-09 22:57:52 -07:00
resource.c resource: improve child resource handling in release_mem_region_adjustable() 2025-09-21 14:22:34 -07:00
resource_kunit.c
rseq.c rseq: Protect event mask against membarrier IPI 2025-09-13 19:51:59 +02:00
scftorture.c
scs.c scs: fix a wrong parameter in __scs_magic 2025-11-12 10:00:13 -08:00
seccomp.c Performance events updates for v6.18: 2025-09-30 11:11:21 -07:00
signal.c signal: Fix memory leak for PIDFD_SELF* sentinels 2025-08-19 13:51:28 +02:00
smp.c smp: Fix up and expand the smp_call_function_many() kerneldoc 2025-09-18 22:21:28 +02:00
smpboot.c sched/smp: Use the SMP version of idle_thread_set_boot_cpu() 2025-06-13 08:47:20 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT 2025-09-17 16:25:41 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c Modules changes for 6.15-rc1 2025-03-30 15:44:36 -07:00
stop_machine.c sched/core: Fix migrate_swap() vs. hotplug 2025-07-01 15:02:03 +02:00
sys.c Patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
sys_ni.c uprobes/x86: Add uprobe syscall to speed up uprobe 2025-08-21 20:09:20 +02:00
sysctl-test.c sysctl: move u8 register test to lib/test_sysctl.c 2025-04-14 14:13:41 +02:00
sysctl.c sysctl: rename kern_table -> sysctl_subsys_table 2025-07-23 11:56:02 +02:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
torture.c torture: Delay CPU-hotplug operations until boot completes 2025-08-14 15:26:30 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Print the function symbol when tracepoint_debug is set 2025-03-21 15:30:10 -04:00
tsacct.c pid: change bacct_add_tsk() to use task_ppid_nr_ns() 2025-08-19 13:38:20 +02:00
ucount.c ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below() 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c ns: move ns type into struct ns_common 2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
user_namespace.c ns: move ns type into struct ns_common 2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
utsname.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
vhost_task.c vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task. 2025-09-21 17:44:20 -04:00
vmcore_info.c crash: export PAGE_UNACCEPTED_MAPCOUNT_VALUE to vmcoreinfo 2025-05-11 17:54:04 -07:00
watch_queue.c vfs-6.15-rc1.pipe 2025-03-24 09:52:37 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: add sys_info sysctls to dump sys info on system lockup 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog: fix opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in watchdog_next_cpu() 2025-07-31 11:28:03 -04:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog: skip checks when panic is in progress 2025-09-13 17:32:53 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users 2025-09-16 10:33:53 -10:00
workqueue_internal.h