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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>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/16] powerpc/fadump: Update documentation about OPAL platform support
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:04:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <155541086407.812.16892616275938068505.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155541065470.812.7120798773144842076.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>

With FADump support now available on both pseries and OPAL platforms,
update FADump documentation with these details.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt |   90 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
index 62e75ef..844a229 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ as follows:
    normal.
 
 -- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new
-   node (ibm,dump-kernel) in the device tree, indicating that
+   node (ibm,dump-kernel on PSeries or ibm,opal/dump/result-table
+   on OPAL platform) in the device tree, indicating that
    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
@@ -93,7 +94,9 @@ as follows:
 
 Please note that the firmware-assisted dump feature
 is only available on Power6 and above systems with recent
-firmware versions.
+firmware versions on PSeries (PowerVM) platform and Power9
+and above systems with recent firmware versions on PowerNV
+(OPAL) platform.
 
 Implementation details:
 ----------------------
@@ -108,57 +111,66 @@ that are run. If there is dump data, then the
 /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem file is created, and the reserved
 memory is held.
 
-If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required
-to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore
-header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot memory
-size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region will
-be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle
-for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state
-and HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur. Since this reserved
-memory area is used only after the system crash, there is no point in
-blocking this significant chunk of memory from production kernel.
-Hence, the implementation uses the Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory
-Allocator (CMA) for memory reservation if CMA is configured for kernel.
-With CMA reservation this memory will be available for applications to
-use it, while kernel is prevented from using 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.
+If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required to
+hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump, FADump header and
+elfcore header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot
+memory size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region
+will be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle
+for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state and
+HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur.
+
+Since this reserved memory area is used only after the system crash,
+there is no point in blocking this significant chunk of memory from
+production kernel. Hence, the implementation uses the Linux kernel's
+Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) for memory reservation if CMA is
+configured for kernel. With CMA reservation this memory will be
+available for applications to use it, while kernel is prevented from
+using 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.
 
   o Memory Reservation during first kernel
 
-  Low memory                                                Top of memory
-  0      boot memory size      |<--Reserved dump area --->|      |
-  |           |                |   Permanent Reservation  |      |
-  V           V                |   (Preserve area)        |      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
-
+  Low memory                                                 Top of memory
+  0      boot memory size    |<--- Reserved dump area --->|       |
+  |           |              |    Permanent Reservatio    |       |
+  V           V              |       (Preserve area)      |       V
+  +-----------+--------/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+
+  |           |              |///|////|  DUMP | HDR | ELF |       |
+  +-----------+--------/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+
+        |                      ^    ^     ^      ^
+        |                      |    |     |      |
+        \                     CPU  HPTE   /      |
+         ---------------------------------       |
+      Boot memory content gets transferred       |
+      to reserved area by firmware at the        |
+      time of crash.                             |
+                                             FADump Header
+                                              (meta area)
                    Fig. 1
 
 
   o Memory Reservation during second kernel after crash
 
-  Low memory                                                Top of memory
-  0      boot memory size                                        |
-  |           |<------------- Reserved dump area --------------->|
-  V           V                |<---- Preserve area ----->|      V
-  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
-  |           |                |CPU|HPTE|  DUMP  |HDR|ELF |      |
-  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
+  Low memory                                                 Top of memory
+  0      boot memory size                                         |
+  |           |<--------------- Reserved dump area -------------->|
+  V           V              |<---- Preserve area ------->|       |
+  +-----------+--------/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+
+  |           |              |///|////|  DUMP | HDR | ELF |       |
+  +-----------+--------/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+
         |                                              |
         V                                              V
    Used by second                                /proc/vmcore
    kernel to boot
                    Fig. 2
 
+        +---+
+        |///| -> Regions (CPU & HPTE) marked like this in the above figures
+        +---+    are not always present. For example, OPAL platform does not
+                 have CPU & HPTE regions.
+
+
 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)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-16 10:32 [PATCH v2 00/16] Add FADump support on PowerNV platform Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:33 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] powerpc/fadump: move internal fadump code to a new file Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:33 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] powerpc/fadump: Improve fadump documentation Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:33 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] pseries/fadump: move out platform specific support from generic code Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:33 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] powerpc/fadump: use FADump instead of fadump for how it is pronounced Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] powerpc/fadump: enable fadump support on OPAL based POWER platform Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:34 ` Hari Bathini [this message]
2019-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while reserving memory Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] powernv/fadump: process architected register state data provided by firmware Hari Bathini
2019-05-07 14:13   ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2019-05-07 16:00     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-09  4:42       ` Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] powernv/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] powerpc/powernv: export /proc/opalcore for analysing opal crashes Hari Bathini
2019-05-08  0:25   ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-05-09  4:46     ` Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] powernv/fadump: Skip processing /proc/vmcore when only OPAL core exists Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] powernv/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /proc/opalcore file Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] powernv/fadump: consider f/w load area Hari Bathini
2019-05-07 17:13   ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2019-05-09  4:50     ` Hari Bathini
2019-04-16 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] powernv/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore Hari Bathini

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