With commit f6e6bedb77 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset
closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at
the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change
them appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
With commit 11550dc0a0 ("powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter
for fadump memory reservation"), 'fadump_reserve_mem=' parameter is
deprecated in favor of 'crashkernel=' parameter. Add a warning if
'fadump_reserve_mem=' is still used.
Fixes: 11550dc0a0 ("powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation")
Suggested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Unsplit long printk strings]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
- log an error message when registration fails and no error code listed
in the switch is returned
- translate the hv error code to posix error code and return it from
fw_register
- return the posix error code from fw_register to the process writing
to sysfs
- return EEXIST on re-registration
- return success on deregistration when fadump is not registered
- return ENODEV when no memory is reserved for fadump
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Tested-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Use pr_err() to shrink the error print]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
fadump supports specifying memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel
with fadump_reserve_mem kernel parameter. This parameter currently
supports passing a fixed memory size, like fadump_reserve_mem=<size>
only. This patch aims to add support for other syntaxes like
range-based memory size
<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,<range3>:<size3>,...] which allows
using the same parameter to boot the kernel with different system RAM
sizes.
As crashkernel parameter already supports the above mentioned syntaxes,
this patch deprecates fadump_reserve_mem parameter and reuses
crashkernel parameter instead, to specify memory for fadump's crash
kernel memory reservation as well. If any offset is provided in
crashkernel parameter, it will be ignored in case of fadump, as fadump
reserves memory at end of RAM.
Advantages using crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem
parameter are one less kernel parameter overall, code reuse and support
for multiple syntaxes to specify memory.
Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035346749.6881.911095631212975718.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>
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>
These files don't seem to have any need for asm/debug.h, now that all it
includes are the debugger hooks and breakpoint definitions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
powerpc_debugfs_root is the dentry representing the root of the
"powerpc" directory tree in debugfs.
Currently it sits in asm/debug.h, a long with some other things that
have "debug" in the name, but are otherwise unrelated.
Pull it out into a separate header, which also includes linux/debugfs.h,
and convert all the users to include debugfs.h instead of debug.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Currently, the area to preserve boot memory is reserved at the top of
RAM. This leaves fadump vulnerable to memory hot-remove operations. As
memory for fadump has to be reserved early in the boot process, fadump
can't be registered after a memory hot-remove operation. Though this
problem can't be eleminated completely, the impact can be minimized by
reserving memory at an offset closer to bottom of the RAM. The offset
for fadump memory reservation can be any value greater than fadump boot
memory size.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
There are chances that multiple CPUs can call crash_fadump() simultaneously
and would start duplicating same info to vmcoreinfo ELF note section. This
causes makedumpfile to fail during kdump capture. One example is,
triggering dumprestart from HMC which sends system reset to all the CPUs at
once.
makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore
read_vmcoreinfo_basic_info: Invalid data in /tmp/vmcoreinfoyjgxlL: CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971
makedumpfile Failed.
Running makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore failed (1).
makedumpfile -d 31 -l /proc/vmcore
read_vmcoreinfo_basic_info: Invalid data in /tmp/vmcoreinfo1mmVdO: CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971
makedumpfile Failed.
Running makedumpfile -d 31 -l /proc/vmcore failed (1).
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- fsnotify updates
- ocfs2 updates
- all of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (127 commits)
console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
mailmap: add Johan Hovold
.gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns
proc: relax /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns capability requirements
meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
proc: faster /proc/*/status
...
Currently significant amount of memory is reserved only in kernel booted
to capture kernel dump using the fa_dump method.
Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialize
only certain size memory per node. The certain size takes into account
the dentry and inode cache sizes. Currently the cache sizes are
calculated based on the total system memory including the reserved
memory. However such a kernel when booting the same kernel as fadump
kernel will not be able to allocate the required amount of memory to
suffice for the dentry and inode caches. This results in crashes like
Hence only implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages() for CONFIG_FA_DUMP
configurations. The amount reserved will be reduced while calculating
the large caches and will avoid crashes like the below on large systems
such as 32 TB systems.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912 (order: 16, 4294967296 bytes)
vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 4097114112 of 17179934720 bytes
swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x2080020(GFP_ATOMIC)
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6-master+ #3
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160
__vmalloc_node_range+0x304/0x340
__vmalloc+0x6c/0x90
alloc_large_system_hash+0x1b8/0x2c0
inode_init+0x94/0xe4
vfs_caches_init+0x8c/0x13c
start_kernel+0x50c/0x578
start_here_common+0x20/0xa8
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
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>
The fadump code calls vmcore_cleanup() which only exists if
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y. We don't want to depend on CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE,
because it's user selectable, so just wrap the call in an #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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>
We spent so much time bike-shedding the printk() we missed that the next
line was missing a semi-colon. And it seems none of our defconfigs turn
on CONFIG_FA_DUMP.
Fixes: 4a03749f14 ("powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fix trivial spelling mistake "rgistration". Also use pr_err()
instead of printk() and unsplit the string to keep it all on one
line.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
[mpe: Keep rc on the same line, splitting it doesn't help]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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>
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window. It got
a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
ack in it. Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.
There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
still want to sort through and test.
The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
with our new v2 ABI. We previously supported v2 userspace but the
kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack. This is now sorted mostly
thanks to Anton and Rusty.
We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper. This was made harder by the fact that
traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it. This
meant more churn that just endian fixes.
This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.
There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
*will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).
Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
P8 by Michael. This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
(the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).
And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."
[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
Google knows. ]
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
...
Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks.
There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop
call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return
value const and the property length ptr type an int.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers <schivers@csc.com>
Function early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump() is called to scan the device
tree for fdump properties under node "rtas". Any one of them is
invalid, we can stop scanning the device tree early by returning
"1". It would save a bit time during boot.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use common help functions to free reserved pages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are some device-tree nodes, whose values are of type phys_addr_t.
The phys_addr_t is variable sized based on the CONFIG_PHSY_T_64BIT.
Change these to a fixed unsigned long long for consistency.
This patch does the change only for memory_limit.
The following is a list of such variables which need the change:
1) kernel_end, crashk_size - in arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
2) (struct resource *)crashk_res.start - We could export a local static
variable from machine_kexec.c.
Changing the above values might break the kexec-tools. So, I will
fix kexec-tools first to handle the different sized values and then change
the above.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>
Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
crash.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
