History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# bec53196 11-Sep-2019 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel

Add a new kernel config option, CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP that ensures
that crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. This
helps in cases where FADump is not enabled but the subsequent memory
preserving kernel boot is likely to process this crash data. One
typical usecase for this config option is petitboot kernel.

As OPAL allows registering address with it in the first kernel and
retrieving it after MPIPL, use it to store the top of boot memory.
A kernel that intends to preserve crash data retrieves it and avoids
using memory beyond this address.

Move arch_reserved_kernel_pages() function as it is needed for both
FA_DUMP and PRESERVE_FA_DUMP configurations.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821375751.5656.11459483669542541602.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com


# 0226e552 11-Sep-2019 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: move rtas specific definitions to platform code

Currently, FADump is only supported on pSeries but that is going to
change soon with FADump support being added on PowerNV platform. So,
move rtas specific definitions to platform code to allow FADump
to have multiple platforms support.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821328494.5656.16219929140866195511.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com


# ca986d7f 11-Sep-2019 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: move internal macros/definitions to a new header

Though asm/fadump.h is meant to be used by other components dealing
with FADump, it also has macros/definitions internal to FADump code.
Move them to a new header file used within FADump code. This also
makes way for refactoring platform specific FADump code.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821313134.5656.6597770626574392140.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com


# 1a59d1b8 27-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 9c1d38b3 22-Mar-2019 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

powerpc/fadump: define an empty fadump_cleanup()

To avoid #ifdefs, define an static inline fadump_cleanup() function
when CONFIG_FADUMP is not selected

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 0db6896f 20-Aug-2018 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: Do not allow hot-remove memory from fadump reserved area.

For fadump to work successfully there should not be any holes in reserved
memory ranges where kernel has asked firmware to move the content of old
kernel memory in event of crash. Now that fadump uses CMA for reserved
area, this memory area is now not protected from hot-remove operations
unless it is cma allocated. Hence, fadump service can fail to re-register
after the hot-remove operation, if hot-removed memory belongs to fadump
reserved region. To avoid this make sure that memory from fadump reserved
area is not hot-removable if fadump is registered.

However, if user still wants to remove that memory, he can do so by
manually stopping fadump service before hot-remove operation.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# a4e92ce8 20-Aug-2018 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dump

One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.

In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.

In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".

We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.

Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able
to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory
except the user pages that were present in CMA region.

Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7557 193 6822 12 541 6725
Swap: 4095 0 4095

With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8133 194 7464 12 475 7338
Swap: 4095 0 4095

Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.

Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.

TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 1bd6a1c4 06-Aug-2018 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow

Crash memory ranges is an array of memory ranges of the crashing kernel
to be exported as a dump via /proc/vmcore file. The size of the array
is set based on INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS, which works alright in most cases
where memblock memory regions count is less than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS
value. But this count can grow beyond INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value since
commit 142b45a72e22 ("memblock: Add array resizing support").

On large memory systems with a few DLPAR operations, the memblock memory
regions count could be larger than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. On such
systems, registering fadump results in crash or other system failures
like below:

task: c00007f39a290010 ti: c00000000b738000 task.ti: c00000000b738000
NIP: c000000000047df4 LR: c0000000000f9e58 CTR: c00000000010f180
REGS: c00000000b73b570 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G L X (4.4.140+)
MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22004484 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000008500 DAR: 000007a450000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0
...
NIP [c000000000047df4] smp_send_reschedule+0x24/0x80
LR [c0000000000f9e58] resched_curr+0x138/0x160
Call Trace:
resched_curr+0x138/0x160 (unreliable)
check_preempt_curr+0xc8/0xf0
ttwu_do_wakeup+0x38/0x150
try_to_wake_up+0x224/0x4d0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
ep_poll_callback+0xac/0x1c0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
__wake_up_sync_key+0x70/0xa0
sock_def_readable+0x58/0xa0
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2dc/0x4c0
sock_sendmsg+0x68/0xa0
___sys_sendmsg+0x2cc/0x2e0
__sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xc0
SyS_socketcall+0x36c/0x3f0
system_call+0x3c/0x100

as array index overflow is not checked for while setting up crash memory
ranges causing memory corruption. To resolve this issue, dynamically
allocate memory for crash memory ranges and resize it incrementally,
in units of pagesize, on hitting array size limit.

Fixes: 2df173d9e85d ("fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Just use PAGE_SIZE directly, fixup variable placement]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 6fcd6baa 19-Jul-2017 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/powernv: Use kernel crash path for machine checks

There are quite a few machine check exceptions that can be caused by
kernel bugs. To make debugging easier, use the kernel crash path in
cases of synchronous machine checks that occur in kernel mode, if that
would not result in the machine going straight to panic or crash dump.

There is a downside here that die()ing the process in kernel mode can
still leave the system unstable. panic_on_oops will always force the
system to fail-stop, so systems where that behaviour is important will
still do the right thing.

As a test, when triggering an i-side 0111b error (ifetch from foreign
address) in kernel mode process context on POWER9, the kernel currently
dies quickly like this:

Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
Initiator: CPU
Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
[ 127.426651616,0] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error.
Effective[ 127.426693712,3] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. address: ffff000000000000
opal: Reboot type 1 not supported
Kernel panic - not syncing: PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check
CPU: 56 PID: 4425 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #35
Call Trace:
[ 128.017988928,4] IPMI: BUG: Dropping ESEL on the floor due to
buggy/mising code in OPAL for this BMC
Rebooting in 10 seconds..
Trying to free IRQ 496 from IRQ context!

After this patch, the process is killed and the kernel continues with
this message, which gives enough information to identify the offending
branch (i.e., with CFAR):

Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
Initiator: CPU
Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
Effective address: ffff000000000000
Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=2048
NUMA
PowerNV
Modules linked in: iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ...
CPU: 22 PID: 4436 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #36
task: c000000932300000 task.stack: c000000932380000
NIP: ffff000000000000 LR: 00000000217706a4 CTR: ffff000000000000
REGS: c00000000fc8fd80 TRAP: 0200 Tainted: G M (4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty)
MSR: 90000000001c1003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE>
CR: 24000484 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000004c80 DAR: 0000000021770a90 DSISR: 0a000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: 0000000000001ebe 00007fffce4818b0 0000000021797f00 0000000000000000
GPR04: 00007fff8007ac24 0000000044000484 0000000000004000 00007fff801405e8
GPR08: 900000000280f033 0000000024000484 0000000000000000 0000000000000030
GPR12: 9000000000001003 00007fff801bc370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR28: 00007fff801b0000 0000000000000000 00000000217707a0 00007fffce481918
NIP [ffff000000000000] 0xffff000000000000
LR [00000000217706a4] 0x217706a4
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# eae0dfcc 01-Jun-2017 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: avoid holes in boot memory area when fadump is registered

To register fadump, boot memory area - the size of low memory chunk that
is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted
memory, is assumed to have no holes. But this memory area is currently
not protected from hot-remove operations. So, fadump could fail to
re-register after a memory hot-remove operation, if memory is removed
from boot memory area. To avoid this, ensure that memory from boot
memory area is not hot-removed when fadump is registered.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 48a316e3 02-Jun-2017 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: Set an upper limit for boot memory size

By default, 5% of system RAM is reserved for preserving boot memory.
Alternatively, a user can specify the amount of memory to reserve.
See Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt for details. In
addition to the memory reserved for preserving boot memory, some more
memory is reserved, to save HPTE region, CPU state data and ELF core
headers.

Memory Reservation during first kernel looks like below:

Low memory Top of memory
0 boot memory size |
| | |<--Reserved dump area -->|
V V | Permanent Reservation V
+-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF |
+-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
| ^
| |
\ /
-------------------------------------------
Boot memory content gets transferred to
reserved area by firmware at the time of
crash

This implicitly means that the sum of the sizes of boot memory, CPU
state data, HPTE region, DUMP preserving area and ELF core headers
can't be greater than the total memory size. But currently, a user is
allowed to specify any value as boot memory size. So, the above rule
is violated when a boot memory size around 50% of the total available
memory is specified. As the kernel is not handling this currently, it
may lead to undefined behavior. Fix it by setting an upper limit for
boot memory size to 25% of the total available memory. Also, instead
of using memblock_end_of_DRAM(), which doesn't take the holes, if any,
in the memory layout into account, use memblock_phys_mem_size() to
calculate the percentage of total available memory.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 22bd0177 08-May-2017 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC

Now that crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related code is
moved under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, remove
dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for CONFIG_FA_DUMP. While here, get rid of
definitions of fadump_append_elf_note() & fadump_final_note() functions
to reuse similar functions compiled under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035343956.6881.1536459326017709354.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d8bced27 05-Sep-2016 Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

powerpc/fadump: Set core e_flags using kernel's ELF ABI version

Firmware Assisted Dump is a facility to dump kernel core with assistance
from firmware. As part of this process the kernel ELF ABI version is
stored in the core file.

Currently fadump.h defines this to 0 if it is not already defined. This
clashes with a define in elf.h which sets it based on the current task -
not based on the kernel's ELF ABI version.

Use the compiler-provided #define _CALL_ELF which tells us the ELF ABI
version of the kernel to set e_flags, this matches what binutils does.

Remove the definition in fadump.h, which becomes unused.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# a0512164 20-Jan-2016 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

powerpc/fadump: rename cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header

The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed
readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask. But they are
also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions
set_cpu_xyz. There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which
iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access
go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless
indirection.

It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of
indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a
problem. In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see
4/6).

Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a
struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask
becomes a macro later in the series. The next four patches eliminate the
cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after
renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through
cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as
they used to have.

After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be
out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or
false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one
or two instructions.

For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes.
We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte
smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount). Mostly because, when
iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask
into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each
find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate
address into %rdi before each call.

[1] See Rusty's kind explanation
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for
some historic context.

This patch (of 6):

As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global
cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the
cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply
online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 408cddd9 30-Sep-2014 Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handling

Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The
below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel.
Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore.

# crash vmlinux vmcore
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

KERNEL: vmlinux
DUMPFILE: vmcore
CPUS: 16
DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
UPTIME: 00:03:28
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41
TASKS: 268
NODENAME: linux-dhr2
RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default
VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014
MACHINE: ppc64le (4116 Mhz)
MEMORY: 40 GB
PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details)
PID: 6223
COMMAND: "bash"
TASK: c0000009661b2500 [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000]
CPU: 2
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 82e0703b 07-Apr-2014 Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>

include/linux/crash_dump.h: add vmcore_cleanup() prototype

Eliminate the following warning in proc/vmcore.c:

fs/proc/vmcore.c:1088:6: warning: no previous prototype for `vmcore_cleanup' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up powerpc, remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b500afff 15-Feb-2012 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.

This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to
invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release
the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump.
Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool
can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of
echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'.

Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required
for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump
doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# ebaeb5ae 15-Feb-2012 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fadump: Convert firmware-assisted cpu state dump data into elf notes.

When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves
the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads
the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for
crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program
header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to
fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read
during second kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 2df173d9 15-Feb-2012 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.

Build the crash memory range list by traversing through system memory during
the first kernel before we register for firmware-assisted dump. After the
successful dump registration, initialize the elfcore header and populate
PT_LOAD program headers with crash memory ranges. The elfcore header is
saved in the scratch area within the reserved memory. The scratch area starts
at the end of the memory reserved for saving RMR region contents. The
scratch area contains fadump crash info structure that contains magic number
for fadump validation and physical address where the eflcore header can be
found. This structure will also be used to pass some important crash info
data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core
header with correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. Since
the firmware preserves the entire partition memory at the time of crash the
contents of the scratch area will be preserved till second kernel boot.

Since the memory dump exported through /proc/vmcore is in ELF format similar
to kdump, it will help us to reuse the kdump infrastructure for dump capture
and filtering. Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any
sysfs interface while reading /proc/vmcore.

NOTE: The current design implementation does not address a possibility of
introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting
compatibility. It's on TODO list to come up with better approach to
address this.

Reserved dump area start => +-------------------------------------+
| CPU state dump data |
+-------------------------------------+
| HPTE region data |
+-------------------------------------+
| RMR region data |
Scratch area start => +-------------------------------------+
| fadump crash info structure { |
| magic nummber |
+------|---- elfcorehdr_addr |
| | } |
+----> +-------------------------------------+
| ELF core header |
Reserved dump area end => +-------------------------------------+

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 3ccc00a7 19-Feb-2012 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.

On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line. The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition. It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled. In other words you should probably add
>
> if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.

The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.

Thanks,
-Mahesh.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# eb39c880 15-Feb-2012 Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump.

Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region
and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of
crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move
RMA region data to the reserved memory area.

If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback
to existing kexec-based kdump.

Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been
adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas
and Manish Ahuja

This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware
assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>