E820 reserved ranges is useful in kdump kernel, we have added this in kexec-tools code.
One reason is PCI mmconf (extended mode) requires reserved region otherwise it falls back to legacy mode. Furthermore, when AMD SME kdump support, it needs to map dmi table area as unencrypted. For normal boot these ranges sit in e820 reserved ranges thus the early ioremap code naturally map them as unencrypted. So if we have same e820 reserve setup in kdump kernel then it will just work like normal kernel. Kdump use walk_iomem_res_desc to iterate resources then add matched desc to e820 table for the kdump kernel. But IORES_DESC_NONE resource type includes several different e820 types, we need add exact e820 type to the kdump kernel e820 table thus need an extra checking in memmap_entry_callback to match the e820 type and resource name. NOTE: Before verifying this patches, you need to merge the following patch, which uses to fix an upstream bug. For more information, you can refer to the link below. https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/986979/ Lianbo Jiang (2): x86/kexec_file: add e820 entry in case e820 type string matches to io resource name x86/kexec_file: add reserved e820 ranges to 2nd kernel e820 table arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 12 +++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 2 +- kernel/resource.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1