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Hari Bathini
ced1bf52f4 powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segements
With dynamic memory allocation support for crash memory ranges array,
there is no hard limit on the no. of crash memory ranges kernel could
export, but program headers count could overflow in the /proc/vmcore
ELF file while exporting each memory range as PT_LOAD segment. Reduce
the likelihood of a such scenario, by folding adjacent crash memory
ranges which minimizes the total number of PT_LOAD segments.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-10 22:12:34 +10:00
Hari Bathini
1bd6a1c4b8 powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
Crash memory ranges is an array of memory ranges of the crashing kernel
to be exported as a dump via /proc/vmcore file. The size of the array
is set based on INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS, which works alright in most cases
where memblock memory regions count is less than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS
value. But this count can grow beyond INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value since
commit 142b45a72e ("memblock: Add array resizing support").

On large memory systems with a few DLPAR operations, the memblock memory
regions count could be larger than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. On such
systems, registering fadump results in crash or other system failures
like below:

  task: c00007f39a290010 ti: c00000000b738000 task.ti: c00000000b738000
  NIP: c000000000047df4 LR: c0000000000f9e58 CTR: c00000000010f180
  REGS: c00000000b73b570 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G          L   X  (4.4.140+)
  MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 22004484  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c000000000008500 DAR: 000007a450000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0
  ...
  NIP [c000000000047df4] smp_send_reschedule+0x24/0x80
  LR [c0000000000f9e58] resched_curr+0x138/0x160
  Call Trace:
    resched_curr+0x138/0x160 (unreliable)
    check_preempt_curr+0xc8/0xf0
    ttwu_do_wakeup+0x38/0x150
    try_to_wake_up+0x224/0x4d0
    __wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
    ep_poll_callback+0xac/0x1c0
    __wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
    __wake_up_sync_key+0x70/0xa0
    sock_def_readable+0x58/0xa0
    unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2dc/0x4c0
    sock_sendmsg+0x68/0xa0
    ___sys_sendmsg+0x2cc/0x2e0
    __sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xc0
    SyS_socketcall+0x36c/0x3f0
    system_call+0x3c/0x100

as array index overflow is not checked for while setting up crash memory
ranges causing memory corruption. To resolve this issue, dynamically
allocate memory for crash memory ranges and resize it incrementally,
in units of pagesize, on hitting array size limit.

Fixes: 2df173d9e8 ("fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Just use PAGE_SIZE directly, fixup variable placement]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-10 22:12:34 +10:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
722cde76d6 powerpc/fadump: Unregister fadump on kexec down path.
Unregister fadump on kexec down path otherwise the fadump registration
in new kexec-ed kernel complains that fadump is already registered.
This makes new kernel to continue using fadump registered by previous
kernel which may lead to invalid vmcore generation. Hence this patch
fixes this issue by un-registering fadump in fadump_cleanup() which is
called during kexec path so that new kernel can register fadump with
new valid values.

Fixes: b500afff11 ("fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03 23:19:30 +10:00
Hari Bathini
8597538712 powerpc/fadump: Do not use hugepages when fadump is active
FADump capture kernel boots in restricted memory environment preserving
the context of previous kernel to save vmcore. Supporting hugepages in
such environment makes things unnecessarily complicated, as hugepages
need memory set aside for them. This means most of the capture kernel's
memory is used in supporting hugepages. In most cases, this results in
out-of-memory issues while booting FADump capture kernel. But hugepages
are not of much use in capture kernel whose only job is to save vmcore.
So, disabling hugepages support, when fadump is active, is a reliable
solution for the out of memory issues. Introducing a flag variable to
disable HugeTLB support when fadump is active.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03 23:09:25 +10:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
b71a693d3d powerpc/fadump: exclude memory holes while reserving memory in second kernel
The second kernel, during early boot after the crash, reserves rest of
the memory above boot memory size to make sure it does not touch any of the
dump memory area. It uses memblock_reserve() that reserves the specified
memory region irrespective of memory holes present within that region.
There are chances where previous kernel would have hot removed some of
its memory leaving memory holes behind. In such cases fadump kernel reports
incorrect number of reserved pages through arch_reserved_kernel_pages()
hook causing kernel to hang or panic.

Fix this by excluding memory holes while reserving rest of the memory
above boot memory size during second kernel boot after crash.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03 23:09:24 +10:00
David Gibson
ab9dbf771f Revert "powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier"
This reverts commit a3b2cb30f2.

That commit tried to fix problems with panic on powerpc in certain
circumstances, where some output from the generic panic code was being
dropped.

Unfortunately, it breaks things worse in other circumstances. In
particular when running a PAPR guest, it will now attempt to reboot
instead of informing the hypervisor (KVM or PowerVM) that the guest
has crashed. The crash notification is important to some
virtualization management layers.

Revert it for now until we can come up with a better solution.

Fixes: a3b2cb30f2 ("powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[mpe: Tweak change log a bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-12-05 23:21:46 +11:00
Michal Suchanek
dcdc46794b powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
Currently sysfs store handlers in fadump use if buf[0] == 'char'.

This means input "100foo" is interpreted as '1' and "01" as '0'.

Change to kstrtoint so leading zeroes and the like is handled in
expected way.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:msuchanek@suse.de">&lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;</a></pre>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-13 10:51:38 +11:00
Nicholas Piggin
6fcd6baa90 powerpc/powernv: Use kernel crash path for machine checks
There are quite a few machine check exceptions that can be caused by
kernel bugs. To make debugging easier, use the kernel crash path in
cases of synchronous machine checks that occur in kernel mode, if that
would not result in the machine going straight to panic or crash dump.

There is a downside here that die()ing the process in kernel mode can
still leave the system unstable. panic_on_oops will always force the
system to fail-stop, so systems where that behaviour is important will
still do the right thing.

As a test, when triggering an i-side 0111b error (ifetch from foreign
address) in kernel mode process context on POWER9, the kernel currently
dies quickly like this:

  Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
    NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
    Initiator: CPU
    Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
  [  127.426651616,0] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error.
      Effective[  127.426693712,3] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. address: ffff000000000000
  opal: Reboot type 1 not supported
  Kernel panic - not syncing: PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check
  CPU: 56 PID: 4425 Comm: syscall Tainted: G   M            4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #35
  Call Trace:
  [  128.017988928,4] IPMI: BUG: Dropping ESEL on the floor due to
    buggy/mising code in OPAL for this BMC
    Rebooting in 10 seconds..
  Trying to free IRQ 496 from IRQ context!

After this patch, the process is killed and the kernel continues with
this message, which gives enough information to identify the offending
branch (i.e., with CFAR):

  Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
    NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
    Initiator: CPU
    Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
      Effective address: ffff000000000000
  Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
  SMP NR_CPUS=2048
  NUMA
  PowerNV
  Modules linked in: iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ...
  CPU: 22 PID: 4436 Comm: syscall Tainted: G   M            4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #36
  task: c000000932300000 task.stack: c000000932380000
  NIP: ffff000000000000 LR: 00000000217706a4 CTR: ffff000000000000
  REGS: c00000000fc8fd80 TRAP: 0200   Tainted: G   M             (4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty)
  MSR: 90000000001c1003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE>
    CR: 24000484  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c000000000004c80 DAR: 0000000021770a90 DSISR: 0a000000 SOFTE: 1
  GPR00: 0000000000001ebe 00007fffce4818b0 0000000021797f00 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 00007fff8007ac24 0000000044000484 0000000000004000 00007fff801405e8
  GPR08: 900000000280f033 0000000024000484 0000000000000000 0000000000000030
  GPR12: 9000000000001003 00007fff801bc370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR28: 00007fff801b0000 0000000000000000 00000000217707a0 00007fffce481918
  NIP [ffff000000000000] 0xffff000000000000
  LR [00000000217706a4] 0x217706a4
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-08-31 14:26:04 +10:00
Nicholas Piggin
a3b2cb30f2 powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier
If fadump is not registered, and no other crash or debug handlers are
registered, the powerpc panic handler stops the guest before the
generic panic code can push out debug information to the console.

Currently, system reset injection causes the guest to silently stop.

Stop calling ppc_md.panic in the panic notifier. crash_fadump already
does rtas_os_term() to terminate the guest if fadump is registered.

Remove ppc_md.panic. Move fadump panic notifier into fadump code.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-08-31 14:26:01 +10:00
Xunlei Pang
5203f4995d powerpc/fadump: use the correct VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE for phdr
vmcoreinfo_max_size stands for the vmcoreinfo_data, the correct one we
should use is vmcoreinfo_note whose total size is VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE.

Like explained in commit 77019967f0 ("kdump: fix exported size of
vmcoreinfo note"), it should not affect the actual function, but we
better fix it, also this change should be safe and backward compatible.

After this, we can get rid of variable vmcoreinfo_max_size, let's use
the corresponding macros directly, fewer variables means more safety for
vmcoreinfo operation.

[xlpang@redhat.com: fix build warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494830606-27736-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-2-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12 16:25:59 -07:00
Hari Bathini
68fa6478e3 powerpc/fadump: add reschedule point while releasing memory
Around 95% of memory is reserved by fadump/capture kernel. All this
memory is freed, one page at a time, on writing '1' to the node
/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem. On systems with large memory, this
can take a long time to complete, leading to soft lockup warning
messages. To avoid this, add reschedule points at regular intervals.

Also, while memblock_reserve() implicitly takes care of holes in the
given memory range while reserving memory, those holes need to be
taken care of while releasing memory as memory is freed one page at
a time. Add support to skip holes while releasing memory.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28 13:08:11 +10:00
Hari Bathini
a5a05b91c7 powerpc/fadump: provide a helpful error message
fadump fails to register when there are holes in boot memory area.
Provide a helpful error message to the user in such case.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28 13:08:10 +10:00
Hari Bathini
eae0dfcc44 powerpc/fadump: avoid holes in boot memory area when fadump is registered
To register fadump, boot memory area - the size of low memory chunk that
is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted
memory, is assumed to have no holes. But this memory area is currently
not protected from hot-remove operations. So, fadump could fail to
re-register after a memory hot-remove operation, if memory is removed
from boot memory area. To avoid this, ensure that memory from boot
memory area is not hot-removed when fadump is registered.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28 13:08:09 +10:00
Hari Bathini
a77af552cc powerpc/fadump: avoid duplicates in crash memory ranges
fadump sets up crash memory ranges to be used for creating PT_LOAD
program headers in elfcore header. Memory chunk RMA_START through
boot memory area size is added as the first memory range because
firmware, at the time of crash, moves this memory chunk to different
location specified during fadump registration making it necessary to
create a separate program header for it with the correct offset.
This memory chunk is skipped while setting up the remaining memory
ranges. But currently, there is possibility that some of this memory
may have duplicate entries like when it is hot-removed and added
again. Ensure that no two memory ranges represent the same memory.

When 5 lmbs are hot-removed and then hot-plugged before registering
fadump, here is how the program headers in /proc/vmcore exported by
fadump look like

without this change:

  Program Headers:
    Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                   FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
    NOTE           0x0000000000010000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                   0x0000000000001894 0x0000000000001894         0
    LOAD           0x0000000000021020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                   0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000  RWE    0
    LOAD           0x0000000040031020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                   0x0000000010000000 0x0000000010000000  RWE    0
    LOAD           0x0000000050040000 0xc000000010000000 0x0000000010000000
                   0x0000000050000000 0x0000000050000000  RWE    0
    LOAD           0x00000000a0040000 0xc000000060000000 0x0000000060000000
                   0x000000019ffe0000 0x000000019ffe0000  RWE    0

and with this change:

  Program Headers:
    Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                   FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
    NOTE           0x0000000000010000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                   0x0000000000001894 0x0000000000001894         0
    LOAD           0x0000000000021020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                   0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000  RWE    0
    LOAD           0x0000000040030000 0xc000000040000000 0x0000000040000000
                   0x0000000020000000 0x0000000020000000  RWE    0
    LOAD           0x0000000060030000 0xc000000060000000 0x0000000060000000
                   0x000000019ffe0000 0x000000019ffe0000  RWE    0

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28 13:08:09 +10:00
Hari Bathini
48a316e350 powerpc/fadump: Set an upper limit for boot memory size
By default, 5% of system RAM is reserved for preserving boot memory.
Alternatively, a user can specify the amount of memory to reserve.
See Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt for details. In
addition to the memory reserved for preserving boot memory, some more
memory is reserved, to save HPTE region, CPU state data and ELF core
headers.

Memory Reservation during first kernel looks like below:

  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

This implicitly means that the sum of the sizes of boot memory, CPU
state data, HPTE region, DUMP preserving area and ELF core headers
can't be greater than the total memory size. But currently, a user is
allowed to specify any value as boot memory size. So, the above rule
is violated when a boot memory size around 50% of the total available
memory is specified. As the kernel is not handling this currently, it
may lead to undefined behavior. Fix it by setting an upper limit for
boot memory size to 25% of the total available memory. Also, instead
of using memblock_end_of_DRAM(), which doesn't take the holes, if any,
in the memory layout into account, use memblock_phys_mem_size() to
calculate the percentage of total available memory.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-02 20:16:50 +10:00
Hari Bathini
e7467dc694 powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved
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>
2017-06-02 20:16:49 +10:00
Hari Bathini
81d9eca502 powerpc/fadump: Add a warning when 'fadump_reserve_mem=' is used
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>
2017-06-02 20:16:35 +10:00
Michal Suchanek
98b8cd7f75 powerpc/fadump: Return error when fadump registration fails
- 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>
2017-06-02 19:23:57 +10:00
Hari Bathini
11550dc0a0 powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation
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>
2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
Hari Bathini
22bd0177bd powerpc/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC
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>
2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
3ae05fb3cc powerpc: Remove unnecessary includes of asm/debug.h
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>
2017-04-11 07:46:04 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
7644d5819c powerpc: Create asm/debugfs.h and move powerpc_debugfs_root there
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>
2017-04-11 07:46:03 +10:00
Hari Bathini
f6e6bedb77 powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset closer to bottom of RAM
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>
2017-03-31 22:34:29 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
f2a5e8f002 powerpc/fadump: Fix the race in crash_fadump().
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>
2017-01-30 16:35:16 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
b66484cd74 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
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
  ...
2016-10-07 21:38:00 -07:00
Srikar Dronamraju
1e76609cc1 powerpc: implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages
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>
2016-10-07 18:46:28 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
2685f826e5 powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n
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>
2016-10-04 20:33:18 +11:00
Daniel Axtens
d8bced27be powerpc/fadump: Set core e_flags using kernel's ELF ABI version
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>
2016-09-13 17:36:01 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
b5b1cfc5d4 powerpc/fadump: Fix build error introduced by recent cleanup
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>
2016-07-05 23:49:46 +10:00
Colin Ian King
4a03749f14 powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message
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>
2016-06-28 13:50:47 +10:00
Rasmus Villemoes
a051216427 powerpc/fadump: rename cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header
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>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Hari Bathini
408cddd96e powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handling
Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The
below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel.
Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore.

    # crash vmlinux vmcore
    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
    This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

          KERNEL: vmlinux
        DUMPFILE: vmcore
    	CPUS: 16
    	DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
          UPTIME: 00:03:28
    LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41
           TASKS: 268
        NODENAME: linux-dhr2
         RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default
         VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014
         MACHINE: ppc64le  (4116 Mhz)
          MEMORY: 40 GB
           PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details)
    	 PID: 6223
         COMMAND: "bash"
    	TASK: c0000009661b2500  [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000]
    	 CPU: 2
           STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-10-30 16:52:46 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
c5aec4c76a Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
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
  ...
2014-06-10 18:54:22 -07:00
Rickard Strandqvist
b717d98543 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>
2014-05-28 13:35:39 +10:00
Rob Herring
9d0c4dfedd of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdt
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>
2014-04-30 00:59:15 -05:00
Gavin Shan
a7d0431774 powerpc/prom: Stop scanning dev-tree for fdump early
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>
2014-04-28 17:35:18 +10:00
Jiang Liu
5d585e5c48 mm/ppc: use common help functions to free reserved pages
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>
2013-04-29 15:54:30 -07:00
Suzuki Poulose
a84fcd4687 powerpc: Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned long long
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>
2012-09-07 11:44:30 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
cad3c8346b powerpc: Fix fallout from system.h split up
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-02 14:00:03 +10:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
b500afff11 fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:02 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
d34c5f26cf fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:02 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
ebaeb5ae24 fadump: Convert firmware-assisted cpu state dump data into elf notes.
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
2df173d9e8 fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
3ccc00a7e0 fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
eb39c8803d fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump.
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>
2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00