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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:34:27 +0100 Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.232]) by b06avi18626390.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x6GBYCRI38207766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:34:12 GMT Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4EE52052; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:34:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hbathini.in.ibm.com (unknown [9.184.183.117]) by d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C4452050; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:34:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [PATCH v4 20/25] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP From: Hari Bathini To: linuxppc-dev Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:04:23 +0530 In-Reply-To: <156327668777.27462.5297279227799429100.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> References: <156327668777.27462.5297279227799429100.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19071611-0028-0000-0000-00000384AD77 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19071611-0029-0000-0000-00002444CE89 Message-Id: <156327686361.27462.10217751878112140016.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-07-16_03:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=935 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1907160145 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Mahesh J Salgaonkar , Vasant Hegde , Oliver , Nicholas Piggin , Stewart Smith , Daniel Axtens Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Kernel config option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP is introduced to ensure crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. Update documentation with this details. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini --- Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt index cd48776..373a9fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt @@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ firmware versions on PSeries (PowerVM) platform and Power9 and above systems with recent firmware versions on PowerNV (OPAL) platform. +On OPAL based machines, system first boots into an intermittent +kernel (referred to as petitboot kernel) before booting into the +capture kernel. This kernel would have minimal kernel and/or +userspace support to process crash data. Such kernel needs to +preserve previously crash'ed kernel's memory for the subsequent +capture kernel boot to process this crash data. Kernel config +option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP has to be enabled on such kernel +to ensure that crash data is preserved to process later. + Implementation details: ----------------------