get_crash_memory_ranges(9)

💅 get_crash_memory_ranges(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to this lil page from the Kernel API Manual — it’s giving kernel-core realness and I’m obsessed. Let’s get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

get_crash_memory_ranges — gets the crash memory ranges. The list includes the first/crashing kernel’s memory regions that would be exported via an elfcore. 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int get_crash_memory_ranges (struct crash_mem **mem_ranges );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• mem_ranges — the range list you’re adding the memory ranges to. That’s the whole assignment, bestie 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

fr fr, it returns 0 on success and a negative errno on error. No cap. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file to check out: ./arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c

And the whole SEE ALSO friend group is:

• get_max_nr_ranges(9)
• get_mem_rngs_size(9)
• __add_mem_range(9)
• __merge_memory_ranges(9)
• sort_memory_ranges(9)
• realloc_mem_ranges(9)
• add_mem_range(9)
• add_tce_mem_ranges(9)
• add_initrd_mem_range(9)
• add_htab_mem_range(9)
• add_kernel_mem_range(9)
• add_rtas_mem_range(9)
• add_opal_mem_range(9)
• add_reserved_mem_ranges(9)
• get_reserved_memory_ranges(9)
• get_exclude_memory_ranges(9)
• get_usable_memory_ranges(9)

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okay that’s the whole vibe — this page is from ./arch/powerpc/kexec and it’s dated October 2026. bye bestie, slay your kernel debugging 🫶💖