From: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
James Gowans <jgowans@amazon.com>,
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Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/17] kexec: Add documentation for KHO
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:55:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240101035518.GA804@skinsburskii.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231222193607.15474-8-graf@amazon.com>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:35:57PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/kho/concepts.rst b/Documentation/kho/concepts.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8e4fe8c57865
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/kho/concepts.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +
> +=======================
> +Kexec Handover Concepts
> +=======================
> +
> +Kexec HandOver (KHO) is a mechanism that allows Linux to preserve state -
> +arbitrary properties as well as memory locations - across kexec.
> +
> +It introduces multiple concepts:
> +
> +KHO Device Tree
> +---------------
> +
> +Every KHO kexec carries a KHO specific flattened device tree blob that
> +describes the state of the system. Device drivers can register to KHO to
> +serialize their state before kexec. After KHO, device drivers can read
> +the device tree and extract previous state.
> +
> +KHO only uses the fdt container format and libfdt library, but does not
> +adhere to the same property semantics that normal device trees do: Properties
> +are passed in native endianness and standardized properties like ``regs`` and
> +``ranges`` do not exist, hence there are no ``#...-cells`` properties.
> +
> +KHO introduces a new concept to its device tree: ``mem`` properties. A
> +``mem`` property can inside any subnode in the device tree. When present,
Should it be "property can be" ?
...
> diff --git a/Documentation/kho/usage.rst b/Documentation/kho/usage.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5efa2a58f9c3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/kho/usage.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +
> +====================
> +Kexec Handover Usage
> +====================
> +
> +Kexec HandOver (KHO) is a mechanism that allows Linux to preserve state -
> +arbitrary properties as well as memory locations - across kexec.
> +
> +This document expects that you are familiar with the base KHO
> +:ref:`Documentation/kho/concepts.rst <concepts>`. If you have not read
> +them yet, please do so now.
> +
> +Prerequisites
> +-------------
> +
> +KHO is available when the ``CONFIG_KEXEC_KHO`` config option is set to y
> +at compile team. Every KHO producer has its own config option that you
Should it be "at compile time."?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-02 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-22 19:35 [PATCH v2 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] mm,memblock: Add support for scratch memory Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] memblock: Declare scratch memory as CMA Alexander Graf
2024-01-01 3:01 ` Stanislav Kinsburskii
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] kexec: Add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] kexec: Add KHO parsing support Alexander Graf
2024-01-01 3:33 ` Stanislav Kinsburskii
2024-01-15 13:27 ` Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] kexec: Add KHO support to kexec file loads Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] kexec: Add config option for KHO Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] kexec: Add documentation " Alexander Graf
2024-01-01 3:55 ` Stanislav Kinsburskii [this message]
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] arm64: Add KHO support Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] x86: " Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:36 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] tracing: Initialize fields before registering Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:36 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] tracing: Introduce kho serialization Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] kexec: Add config option for KHO Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] kexec: Add documentation " Alexander Graf
2024-01-03 18:48 ` Rob Herring
2024-01-17 14:01 ` Alexander Graf
2024-01-17 16:54 ` Rob Herring
2024-01-17 17:00 ` Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] arm64: Add KHO support Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] x86: " Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] tracing: Initialize fields before registering Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] tracing: Introduce kho serialization Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] tracing: Add kho serialization of trace buffers Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] tracing: Recover trace buffers from kexec handover Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] tracing: Add kho serialization of trace events Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] tracing: Recover trace events from kexec handover Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] tracing: Add config option for " Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 19:51 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] devicetree: Add bindings for ftrace KHO Alexander Graf
2023-12-22 21:19 ` Rob Herring
2023-12-23 14:30 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-12-23 23:20 ` Alexander Graf
2023-12-24 8:58 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-01-02 14:53 ` Rob Herring
2024-01-02 15:20 ` Rob Herring
2024-01-17 13:56 ` Alexander Graf
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