Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
     to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.

   - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.

   - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
     describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
     Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.

   - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.

   - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
     boot.

   - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.

   - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.

   - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.

  Protocols:

   - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).

   - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
     on socket by socket basis.

   - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.

   - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
     manager.

   - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
     collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).

   - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).

   - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.

   - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.

   - Remove static WEP support.

   - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
     reporting.

   - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).

  BPF:

   - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
     precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
     kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.

   - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
     timestamp metadata.

   - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
     better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
     metadata.

   - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.

   - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
     bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.

   - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
     kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.

   - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
     livepatch and BPF.

   - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
     programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
     different time intervals.

   - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.

   - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.

   - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.

   - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
     memory accounting for container environments.

  Netfilter:

   - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
     years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
     /proc interface installed by this target.

   - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
     existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
     referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.

  Driver API:

   - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
     IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.

   - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.

   - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.

   - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
     Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
     shared medium Ethernet.

   - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
     preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.

   - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.

   - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
     de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
     multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
     factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.

   - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).

   - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
     messages with notifications for debug.

   - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.

   - Add support for per action HW stats in TC.

   - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
     a specific point in the action chain).

   - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
     modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
     Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
     using nl80211 interface instead.

   - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
     error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
     including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
     CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
      - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
      - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
      - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
      - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
      - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux

   - WiFi:
      - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
      - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)

   - CAN:
      - Renesas R-Car V4H

  Drivers:

   - Bluetooth:
      - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (1G, igc):
         - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
         - multi-buffer XDP support
         - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
         - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
         - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
         - more efficient crypto key management method
         - multi-port eswitch support
      - Netronome/Corigine:
         - add DCB IEEE support
         - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
      - Freescale/NXP (enetc):
         - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
         - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
         - support MAC Merge layer
      - Other NICs:
         - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
         - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
         - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
         - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
         - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
         - cpts: support pulse-per-second output
         - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
         - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
         - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
         - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
         - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
         - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
         - tsnep: XDP support

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
         - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
           the implicit rules always active
         - add support for egress DSCP rewrite
         - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
         - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
           etc.)
         - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
         - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
           8.6.5.1)

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - add MAB (port auth) offload support
         - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
      - NXP (ocelot):
         - support MAC Merge layer
         - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
      - Microchip:
         - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
         - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
         - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
         - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
         - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
      - other:
         - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
         - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
      - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
        on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
        BIOS to the firmware.

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - IPQ5018 support
      - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
      - channel 177 support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - per-PHY LED support
      - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
      - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
      - switch to using page pool allocator

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance

   - Mobile:
      - rmnet: support TX aggregation"

* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
  page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
  net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
  ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
  xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
  sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
  selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
  net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
  net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
  net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
  net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
  net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
  net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
  net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
  sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
  sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
  net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
  net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
  net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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+================================================================
+Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution
+================================================================
+
+This document includes overview, setup, installation, and analysis
+information.
+
+Overview
+========
+
+Kdump uses kexec to quickly boot to a dump-capture kernel whenever a
+dump of the system kernel's memory needs to be taken (for example, when
+the system panics). The system kernel's memory image is preserved across
+the reboot and is accessible to the dump-capture kernel.
+
+You can use common commands, such as cp, scp or makedumpfile to copy
+the memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network
+to a remote system.
+
+Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, ia64,
+s390x, arm and arm64 architectures.
+
+When the system kernel boots, it reserves a small section of memory for
+the dump-capture kernel. This ensures that ongoing Direct Memory Access
+(DMA) from the system kernel does not corrupt the dump-capture kernel.
+The kexec -p command loads the dump-capture kernel into this reserved
+memory.
+
+On x86 machines, the first 640 KB of physical memory is needed for boot,
+regardless of where the kernel loads. For simpler handling, the whole
+low 1M is reserved to avoid any later kernel or device driver writing
+data into this area. Like this, the low 1M can be reused as system RAM
+by kdump kernel without extra handling.
+
+On PPC64 machines first 32KB of physical memory is needed for booting
+regardless of where the kernel is loaded and to support 64K page size
+kexec backs up the first 64KB memory.
+
+For s390x, when kdump is triggered, the crashkernel region is exchanged
+with the region [0, crashkernel region size] and then the kdump kernel
+runs in [0, crashkernel region size]. Therefore no relocatable kernel is
+needed for s390x.
+
+All of the necessary information about the system kernel's core image is
+encoded in the ELF format, and stored in a reserved area of memory
+before a crash. The physical address of the start of the ELF header is
+passed to the dump-capture kernel through the elfcorehdr= boot
+parameter. Optionally the size of the ELF header can also be passed
+when using the elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] syntax.
+
+With the dump-capture kernel, you can access the memory image through
+/proc/vmcore. This exports the dump as an ELF-format file that you can
+write out using file copy commands such as cp or scp. You can also use
+makedumpfile utility to analyze and write out filtered contents with
+options, e.g with '-d 31' it will only write out kernel data. Further,
+you can use analysis tools such as the GNU Debugger (GDB) and the Crash
+tool to debug the dump file. This method ensures that the dump pages are
+correctly ordered.
+
+Setup and Installation
+======================
+
+Install kexec-tools
+-------------------
+
+1) Login as the root user.
+
+2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL:
+
+http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.tar.gz
+
+This is a symlink to the latest version.
+
+The latest kexec-tools git tree is available at:
+
+- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
+- http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
+
+There is also a gitweb interface available at
+http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
+
+More information about kexec-tools can be found at
+http://horms.net/projects/kexec/
+
+3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows::
+
+	tar xvpzf kexec-tools.tar.gz
+
+4) Change to the kexec-tools directory, as follows::
+
+	cd kexec-tools-VERSION
+
+5) Configure the package, as follows::
+
+	./configure
+
+6) Compile the package, as follows::
+
+	make
+
+7) Install the package, as follows::
+
+	make install
+
+
+Build the system and dump-capture kernels
+-----------------------------------------
+There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
+
+1) Build a separate custom dump-capture kernel for capturing the
+   kernel core dump.
+
+2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
+   no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
+   only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
+   of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64, arm and arm64 architectures support
+   relocatable kernel.
+
+Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
+one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
+at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel
+suitable to his needs.
+
+Following are the configuration setting required for system and
+dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support.
+
+System kernel config options
+----------------------------
+
+1) Enable "kexec system call" or "kexec file based system call" in
+   "Processor type and features."::
+
+	CONFIG_KEXEC=y or CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
+
+   And both of them will select KEXEC_CORE::
+
+	CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
+
+   Subsequently, CRASH_CORE is selected by KEXEC_CORE::
+
+	CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
+
+2) Enable "sysfs file system support" in "Filesystem" -> "Pseudo
+   filesystems." This is usually enabled by default::
+
+	CONFIG_SYSFS=y
+
+   Note that "sysfs file system support" might not appear in the "Pseudo
+   filesystems" menu if "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
+   is not enabled in "General Setup." In this case, check the .config file
+   itself to ensure that sysfs is turned on, as follows::
+
+	grep 'CONFIG_SYSFS' .config
+
+3) Enable "Compile the kernel with debug info" in "Kernel hacking."::
+
+	CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=Y
+
+   This causes the kernel to be built with debug symbols. The dump
+   analysis tools require a vmlinux with debug symbols in order to read
+   and analyze a dump file.
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Independent)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+1) Enable "kernel crash dumps" support under "Processor type and
+   features"::
+
+	CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
+
+2) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" under "Filesystems" -> "Pseudo filesystems"::
+
+	CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
+
+   (CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is set by default when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected.)
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, i386 and x86_64)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+1) On i386, enable high memory support under "Processor type and
+   features"::
+
+	CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
+
+   or::
+
+	CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G
+
+2) With CONFIG_SMP=y, usually nr_cpus=1 need specified on the kernel
+   command line when loading the dump-capture kernel because one
+   CPU is enough for kdump kernel to dump vmcore on most of systems.
+
+   However, you can also specify nr_cpus=X to enable multiple processors
+   in kdump kernel. In this case, "disable_cpu_apicid=" is needed to
+   tell kdump kernel which cpu is 1st kernel's BSP. Please refer to
+   admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more details.
+
+   With CONFIG_SMP=n, the above things are not related.
+
+3) A relocatable kernel is suggested to be built by default. If not yet,
+   enable "Build a relocatable kernel" support under "Processor type and
+   features"::
+
+	CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
+
+4) Use a suitable value for "Physical address where the kernel is
+   loaded" (under "Processor type and features"). This only appears when
+   "kernel crash dumps" is enabled. A suitable value depends upon
+   whether kernel is relocatable or not.
+
+   If you are using a relocatable kernel use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
+   This will compile the kernel for physical address 1MB, but given the fact
+   kernel is relocatable, it can be run from any physical address hence
+   kexec boot loader will load it in memory region reserved for dump-capture
+   kernel.
+
+   Otherwise it should be the start of memory region reserved for
+   second kernel using boot parameter "crashkernel=Y@X". Here X is
+   start of memory region reserved for dump-capture kernel.
+   Generally X is 16MB (0x1000000). So you can set
+   CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
+
+5) Make and install the kernel and its modules. DO NOT add this kernel
+   to the boot loader configuration files.
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ppc64)
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+1) Enable "Build a kdump crash kernel" support under "Kernel" options::
+
+	CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
+
+2)   Enable "Build a relocatable kernel" support::
+
+	CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
+
+   Make and install the kernel and its modules.
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64)
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+- No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel
+  for ia64, other than those specified in the arch independent section
+  above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel
+  as a dump-capture kernel if desired.
+
+  The crashkernel region can be automatically placed by the system
+  kernel at runtime. This is done by specifying the base address as 0,
+  or omitting it all together::
+
+	crashkernel=256M@0
+
+  or::
+
+	crashkernel=256M
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm)
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+-   To use a relocatable kernel,
+    Enable "AUTO_ZRELADDR" support under "Boot" options::
+
+	AUTO_ZRELADDR=y
+
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm64)
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+- Please note that kvm of the dump-capture kernel will not be enabled
+  on non-VHE systems even if it is configured. This is because the CPU
+  will not be reset to EL2 on panic.
+
+crashkernel syntax
+===========================
+1) crashkernel=size@offset
+
+   Here 'size' specifies how much memory to reserve for the dump-capture kernel
+   and 'offset' specifies the beginning of this reserved memory. For example,
+   "crashkernel=64M@16M" tells the system kernel to reserve 64 MB of memory
+   starting at physical address 0x01000000 (16MB) for the dump-capture kernel.
+
+   The crashkernel region can be automatically placed by the system
+   kernel at run time. This is done by specifying the base address as 0,
+   or omitting it all together::
+
+         crashkernel=256M@0
+
+   or::
+
+         crashkernel=256M
+
+   If the start address is specified, note that the start address of the
+   kernel will be aligned to a value (which is Arch dependent), so if the
+   start address is not then any space below the alignment point will be
+   wasted.
+
+2) range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
+
+   While the "crashkernel=size[@offset]" syntax is sufficient for most
+   configurations, sometimes it's handy to have the reserved memory dependent
+   on the value of System RAM -- that's mostly for distributors that pre-setup
+   the kernel command line to avoid a unbootable system after some memory has
+   been removed from the machine.
+
+   The syntax is::
+
+       crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
+       range=start-[end]
+
+   For example::
+
+       crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
+
+   This would mean:
+
+       1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
+          (this is the "rescue" case)
+       2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
+       3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
+
+3) crashkernel=size,high and crashkernel=size,low
+
+   If memory above 4G is preferred, crashkernel=size,high can be used to
+   fulfill that. With it, physical memory is allowed to be allocated from top,
+   so could be above 4G if system has more than 4G RAM installed. Otherwise,
+   memory region will be allocated below 4G if available.
+
+   When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory
+   region above 4G, low memory under 4G is needed in this case. There are
+   three ways to get low memory:
+
+      1) Kernel will allocate at least 256M memory below 4G automatically
+         if crashkernel=Y,low is not specified.
+      2) Let user specify low memory size instead.
+      3) Specified value 0 will disable low memory allocation::
+
+            crashkernel=0,low
+
+Boot into System Kernel
+-----------------------
+1) Update the boot loader (such as grub, yaboot, or lilo) configuration
+   files as necessary.
+
+2) Boot the system kernel with the boot parameter "crashkernel=Y@X".
+
+   On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]". Most of the time, the
+   start address 'X' is not necessary, kernel will search a suitable
+   area. Unless an explicit start address is expected.
+
+   On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M@32M".
+
+   On ia64, 256M@256M is a generous value that typically works.
+   The region may be automatically placed on ia64, see the
+   dump-capture kernel config option notes above.
+   If use sparse memory, the size should be rounded to GRANULE boundaries.
+
+   On s390x, typically use "crashkernel=xxM". The value of xx is dependent
+   on the memory consumption of the kdump system. In general this is not
+   dependent on the memory size of the production system.
+
+   On arm, the use of "crashkernel=Y@X" is no longer necessary; the
+   kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the
+   first 512MB of RAM if X is not given.
+
+   On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]".  Note that the start address of
+   the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000).
+
+Load the Dump-capture Kernel
+============================
+
+After booting to the system kernel, dump-capture kernel needs to be
+loaded.
+
+Based on the architecture and type of image (relocatable or not), one
+can choose to load the uncompressed vmlinux or compressed bzImage/vmlinuz
+of dump-capture kernel. Following is the summary.
+
+For i386 and x86_64:
+
+	- Use bzImage/vmlinuz if kernel is relocatable.
+	- Use vmlinux if kernel is not relocatable.
+
+For ppc64:
+
+	- Use vmlinux
+
+For ia64:
+
+	- Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz
+
+For s390x:
+
+	- Use image or bzImage
+
+For arm:
+
+	- Use zImage
+
+For arm64:
+
+	- Use vmlinux or Image
+
+If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
+to load dump-capture kernel::
+
+   kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \
+   --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \
+   --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+
+If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command
+to load dump-capture kernel::
+
+   kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \
+   --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
+   --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+
+If you are using a compressed zImage, then use following command
+to load dump-capture kernel::
+
+   kexec --type zImage -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \
+   --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
+   --dtb=<dtb-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
+   --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+
+If you are using an uncompressed Image, then use following command
+to load dump-capture kernel::
+
+   kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-Image> \
+   --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
+   --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+
+Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64.
+It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now
+it should be omitted
+
+Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
+loading dump-capture kernel.
+
+For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
+
+	"1 irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices"
+
+For ppc64:
+
+	"1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices"
+
+For s390x:
+
+	"1 nr_cpus=1 cgroup_disable=memory"
+
+For arm:
+
+	"1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices"
+
+For arm64:
+
+	"1 nr_cpus=1 reset_devices"
+
+Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
+
+* By default, the ELF headers are stored in ELF64 format to support
+  systems with more than 4GB memory. On i386, kexec automatically checks if
+  the physical RAM size exceeds the 4 GB limit and if not, uses ELF32.
+  So, on non-PAE systems, ELF32 is always used.
+
+  The --elf32-core-headers option can be used to force the generation of ELF32
+  headers. This is necessary because GDB currently cannot open vmcore files
+  with ELF64 headers on 32-bit systems.
+
+* The "irqpoll" boot parameter reduces driver initialization failures
+  due to shared interrupts in the dump-capture kernel.
+
+* You must specify <root-dev> in the format corresponding to the root
+  device name in the output of mount command.
+
+* Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
+  mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".
+
+* We generally don't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
+  dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
+  kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel.
+  Note, though maxcpus always works, you had better replace it with
+  nr_cpus to save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86.
+
+* You should enable multi-cpu support in dump-capture kernel if you intend
+  to use multi-thread programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
+  makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-thread program may have a great
+  performance degradation. To enable multi-cpu support, you should bring up an
+  SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apicid=[X]
+  options while loading it.
+
+* For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with
+  the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it
+  is done on all other architectures. If no elfcorehdr= kernel parameter is
+  specified, the s390x kdump kernel dynamically creates the header. The
+  second mode has the advantage that for CPU and memory hotplug, kdump has
+  not to be reloaded with kexec_load().
+
+* For s390x systems with many attached devices the "cio_ignore" kernel
+  parameter should be used for the kdump kernel in order to prevent allocation
+  of kernel memory for devices that are not relevant for kdump. The same
+  applies to systems that use SCSI/FCP devices. In that case the
+  "allow_lun_scan" zfcp module parameter should be set to zero before
+  setting FCP devices online.
+
+Kernel Panic
+============
+
+After successfully loading the dump-capture kernel as previously
+described, the system will reboot into the dump-capture kernel if a
+system crash is triggered.  Trigger points are located in panic(),
+die(), die_nmi() and in the sysrq handler (ALT-SysRq-c).
+
+The following conditions will execute a crash trigger point:
+
+If a hard lockup is detected and "NMI watchdog" is configured, the system
+will boot into the dump-capture kernel ( die_nmi() ).
+
+If die() is called, and it happens to be a thread with pid 0 or 1, or die()
+is called inside interrupt context or die() is called and panic_on_oops is set,
+the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
+
+On powerpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus
+and the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
+
+For testing purposes, you can trigger a crash by using "ALT-SysRq-c",
+"echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" or write a module to force the panic.
+
+Write Out the Dump File
+=======================
+
+After the dump-capture kernel is booted, write out the dump file with
+the following command::
+
+   cp /proc/vmcore <dump-file>
+
+or use scp to write out the dump file between hosts on a network, e.g::
+
+   scp /proc/vmcore remote_username@remote_ip:<dump-file>
+
+You can also use makedumpfile utility to write out the dump file
+with specified options to filter out unwanted contents, e.g::
+
+   makedumpfile -l --message-level 1 -d 31 /proc/vmcore <dump-file>
+
+Analysis
+========
+
+Before analyzing the dump image, you should reboot into a stable kernel.
+
+You can do limited analysis using GDB on the dump file copied out of
+/proc/vmcore. Use the debug vmlinux built with -g and run the following
+command::
+
+   gdb vmlinux <dump-file>
+
+Stack trace for the task on processor 0, register display, and memory
+display work fine.
+
+Note: GDB cannot analyze core files generated in ELF64 format for x86.
+On systems with a maximum of 4GB of memory, you can generate
+ELF32-format headers using the --elf32-core-headers kernel option on the
+dump kernel.
+
+You can also use the Crash utility to analyze dump files in Kdump
+format. Crash is available at the following URL:
+
+   https://github.com/crash-utility/crash
+
+Crash document can be found at:
+   https://crash-utility.github.io/
+
+Trigger Kdump on WARN()
+=======================
+
+The kernel parameter, panic_on_warn, calls panic() in all WARN() paths.  This
+will cause a kdump to occur at the panic() call.  In cases where a user wants
+to specify this during runtime, /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn can be set to 1
+to achieve the same behaviour.
+
+Trigger Kdump on add_taint()
+============================
+
+The kernel parameter panic_on_taint facilitates a conditional call to panic()
+from within add_taint() whenever the value set in this bitmask matches with the
+bit flag being set by add_taint().
+This will cause a kdump to occur at the add_taint()->panic() call.
+
+Contact
+=======
+
+- kexec@lists.infradead.org
+
+GDB macros
+==========
+
+.. include:: gdbmacros.txt
+   :literal: