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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.ibm.com>,
	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.ibm.com>,
	Oliver <oohall@gmail.com>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: [PATCH v6 34/36] powernv/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:27:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <156821382786.5656.13173494907671241231.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156821308145.5656.2233728784001623843.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>

With /sys/firmware/opal/core support available on OPAL based machines
and an option to the release memory used by kernel in exporting this
core file, update FADump documentation with these details.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
---

* No changes in v6.


 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
index 08a9b5e..0455a78 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ 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.
 
+-- On OPAL based machines (PowerNV), if the kernel is build with
+   CONFIG_OPAL_CORE=y, OPAL memory at the time of crash is also
+   exported as /sys/firmware/opal/core file. This procfs file is
+   helpful in debugging OPAL crashes with GDB. The kernel memory
+   used for exporting this procfs file can be released by echo'ing
+   '1' to /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore node.
+
+   e.g.
+     # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
 Implementation details:
 -----------------------
 
@@ -273,6 +283,15 @@ Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs:
     enhanced to use this interface to release the memory reserved for
     dump and continue without 2nd reboot.
 
+ /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
+    This file is available only on OPAL based machines when FADump is
+    active during capture kernel. This is used to release the memory
+    used by the kernel to export /sys/firmware/opal/core file. To
+    release this memory, echo '1' to it:
+
+    echo 1  > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
 Here is the list of files under powerpc debugfs:
 (Assuming debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug directory.)
 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 14:45 [PATCH v6 00/36] Add FADump support on PowerNV platform Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:46 ` [PATCH v6 01/36] powerpc/fadump: move internal macros/definitions to a new header Hari Bathini
2019-09-19 10:25   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-11 14:46 ` [PATCH v6 02/36] powerpc/fadump: add helper functions Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:46 ` [PATCH v6 03/36] powerpc/fadump: declare helper functions in internal header file Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:47 ` [PATCH v6 04/36] powerpc/fadump: Improve fadump documentation Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:47 ` [PATCH v6 05/36] powerpc/fadump: use helper functions to reserve/release cpu notes buffer Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:48 ` [PATCH v6 06/36] pseries/fadump: move rtas specific definitions to platform code Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:48 ` [PATCH v6 07/36] pseries/fadump: introduce callbacks for platform specific operations Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:48 ` [PATCH v6 08/36] pseries/fadump: define RTAS register/un-register callback functions Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:49 ` [PATCH v6 09/36] pseries/fadump: add source info while displaying region contents Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:49 ` [PATCH v6 10/36] powerpc/fadump: release all the memory above boot memory size Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:49 ` [PATCH v6 11/36] pseries/fadump: move out platform specific support from generic code Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:49 ` [PATCH v6 12/36] powerpc/fadump: use FADump instead of fadump for how it is pronounced Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:50 ` [PATCH v6 13/36] opal: add MPIPL interface definitions Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:50 ` [PATCH v6 14/36] powernv/fadump: add fadump support on powernv Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:50 ` [PATCH v6 15/36] powerpc/fadump: improve fadump_reserve_mem() Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:50 ` [PATCH v6 16/36] powernv/fadump: register kernel metadata address with opal Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v6 17/36] powernv/fadump: reset metadata address during clean up Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v6 18/36] powernv/fadump: define OPAL register/un-register callback functions Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v6 19/36] powernv/fadump: support copying multiple kernel boot memory regions Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v6 20/36] powernv/fadump: process the crashdump by exporting it as /proc/vmcore Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 21/36] powernv/fadump: Warn before processing partial crashdump Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:53 ` [PATCH v6 22/36] powernv/fadump: handle invalidation of crashdump and re-registraion Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:53 ` [PATCH v6 23/36] powerpc/fadump: Update documentation about OPAL platform support Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:54 ` [PATCH v6 24/36] powerpc/fadump: make use of memblock's bottom up allocation mode Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:54 ` [PATCH v6 25/36] powernv/fadump: process architected register state data provided by firmware Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:55 ` [PATCH v6 26/36] powerpc/fadump: make crash memory ranges array allocation generic Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:55 ` [PATCH v6 27/36] powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:55 ` [PATCH v6 28/36] powerpc/fadump: improve how crashed kernel's memory is reserved Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:56 ` [PATCH v6 29/36] powernv/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:56 ` [PATCH v6 30/36] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:56 ` [PATCH v6 31/36] powernv/opalcore: export /sys/firmware/opal/core for analysing opal crashes Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:56 ` [PATCH v6 32/36] powernv/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /sys/firmware/opal/core file Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:56 ` [PATCH v6 33/36] powerpc/fadump: consider f/w load area Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:57 ` Hari Bathini [this message]
2019-09-11 14:57 ` [PATCH v6 35/36] powerpc/fadump: remove RMA_START and RMA_END macros Hari Bathini
2019-09-11 14:57 ` [PATCH v6 36/36] powernv/fadump: support holes in kernel boot memory area Hari Bathini

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