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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:04:31 +0100 Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.62]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x7KC4Tmc46465038 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:04:29 GMT Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCC7AE05D; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:04:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3075EAE045; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:04:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hbathini.in.ibm.com (unknown [9.184.183.117]) by d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:04:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [PATCH v5 03/31] powerpc/fadump: Improve fadump documentation From: Hari Bathini To: linuxppc-dev Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:34:27 +0530 In-Reply-To: <156630261682.8896.3418665808003586786.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> References: <156630261682.8896.3418665808003586786.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19082012-0028-0000-0000-00000391AD6E X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19082012-0029-0000-0000-00002453D134 Message-Id: <156630266743.8896.6830034015936541230.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-08-20_04:, , 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=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=671 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1906280000 definitions=main-1908200128 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 , Daniel Axtens Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" The figures depicting FADump's (Firmware-Assisted Dump) memory layout are missing some finer details like different memory regions and what they represent. Improve the documentation by updating those details. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini --- Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst | 61 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst index 9ca1283..563c021 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst @@ -76,8 +76,9 @@ as follows: there is crash data available from a previous boot. During the early boot OS will reserve rest of the memory above boot memory size effectively booting with restricted memory - size. This will make sure that the second kernel will not - touch any of the dump memory area. + size. This will make sure that this kernel (also, referred + to as second kernel or capture kernel) will not touch any + of the dump memory area. - User-space tools will read /proc/vmcore to obtain the contents of memory, which holds the previous crashed kernel dump in ELF @@ -128,42 +129,46 @@ space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region:: o Memory Reservation during first kernel - 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 + Low memory Top of memory + 0 boot memory size |<--Reserved dump area --->| | + | | | (Permanent Reservation) | | + V V | | V + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | | + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+ + | ^ ^ + | | | + \ / | + ----------------------------------- FADump Header + Boot memory content gets transferred (meta area) + to reserved area by firmware at the + time of crash + Fig. 1 + o Memory Reservation during second kernel after crash - Low memory Top of memory - 0 boot memory size | - | |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->| - V V V - +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ - | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | | - +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ + Low memory Top of memory + 0 boot memory size | + | |<----------- Crash preserved area --------------->| + V V |<-- Reserved dump area -->| V + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | | + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+ | | V V Used by second /proc/vmcore kernel to boot Fig. 2 -Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a -a new file upon user intervention. The dump data available through -/proc/vmcore will be in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump -infrastructure (kdump scripts) to save the dump works fine with -minor modifications. +Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a new file upon +user intervention. The dump data available through /proc/vmcore will be +in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump infrastructure (kdump scripts) +to save the dump works fine with minor modifications. KDump scripts on +major Distro releases have already been modified to work seemlessly (no +user intervention in saving the dump) when FADump is used, instead of +KDump, as dump mechanism. The tools to examine the dump will be same as the ones used for kdump.