load_elfcorehdr_segment(9)

💖 load_elfcorehdr_segment 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to load_elfcorehdr_segment(9) — yes that's the whole title, it's a lot, we love her anyway ✨ this is the section 9 kernel API manual page, and she's lowkey the moment kdump gets its act together 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

load_elfcorehdr_segment — sets up the crash memory ranges and initializes the elfcorehdr segment, which is literally what you need to load the kdump kernel. no cap, that's the whole job 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int load_elfcorehdr_segment (struct kimage *image , struct kexec_buf
*kbuf );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• image — the kexec image. that's her. main character 🎀
• kbuf — the buffer contents and the memory parameters. the whole vibe check for where stuff goes 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Returns 0 on success, and a negative errno on error. that's it, that's the contract, periodt 💀

fr fr, 0 means slay and anything negative means something went wrong — don't sleep on checking it 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c 👑
• check_realloc_usable_mem(9), add_usable_mem(9), kdump_setup_usable_lmb(9), add_usable_mem_property(9), update_usable_mem_fdt(9), load_backup_segment(9), load_crashdump_segments_ppc64(9), setup_purgatory_ppc64(9), cpu_node_size(9), kexec_extra_fdt_size_ppc64(9), setup_new_fdt_ppc64(9), arch_kexec_kernel_image_probe(9), arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(9) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🌈

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aaaand that's the page!! 🌸 she lives in ./arch/powerpc/kexec and this edition is dated October 2026 — go forth and load that elfcorehdr segment bestie, you're gonna eat 💅💖⭐