[PATCH v4 01/21] docs: qcom: Add qualcomm minidump guide

Mukesh Ojha
2023-06-28T12:38:44Z

Add the qualcomm minidump guide for the users which
tries to cover the dependency and the way to test
and collect minidump on Qualcomm supported platforms.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
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Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 293 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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perf-security
pm/index
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
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+Qualcomm Minidump Feature
+=========================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined
+data for first level of debugging on end user devices running on
+Qualcomm SoCs. It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC)
+or subsystem part of SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and
+software bugs. Hence, the ability to collect accurate data is only
+a best-effort. The data collected could be invalid or corrupted, data
+collection itself could fail, and so on.
+
+Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating
+full system RAM dumps for post-mortem debugging. But in some cases it's
+however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump
+mechanism provides the means for selecting region should be included in
+the ramdump.
+
+::
+
+ +-----------------------------------------------+
+ | DDR +-------------+ |
+ | | SS0-ToC| |
+ | +----------------+ +----------------+ | |
+ | |Shared memory | | SS1-ToC| | |
+ | |(SMEM) | | | | |
+ | | | +-->|--------+ | | |
+ | |G-ToC | | | SS-ToC \ | | |
+ | |+-------------+ | | | +-----------+ | | |
+ | ||-------------| | | | |-----------| | | |
+ | || SS0-ToC | | | +-|<|SS1 region1| | | |
+ | ||-------------| | | | | |-----------| | | |
+ | || SS1-ToC |-|>+ | | |SS1 region2| | | |
+ | ||-------------| | | | |-----------| | | |
+ | || SS2-ToC | | | | | ... | | | |
+ | ||-------------| | | | |-----------| | | |
+ | || ... | | |-|<|SS1 regionN| | | |
+ | ||-------------| | | | |-----------| | | |
+ | || SSn-ToC | | | | +-----------+ | | |
+ | |+-------------+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | |----------------| | |
+ | | | +>| regionN | | |
+ | | | | |----------------| | |
+ | +----------------+ | | | | |
+ | | |----------------| | |
+ | +>| region1 | | |
+ | |----------------| | |
+ | | | | |
+ | |----------------|-+ |
+ | | region5 | |
+ | |----------------| |
+ | | | |
+ | Region information +----------------+ |
+ | +---------------+ |
+ | |region name | |
+ | |---------------| |
+ | |region address | |
+ | |---------------| |
+ | |region size | |
+ | +---------------+ |
+ +-----------------------------------------------+
+ G-ToC: Global table of contents
+ SS-ToC: Subsystem table of contents
+ SS0-SSn: Subsystem numbered from 0 to n
+
+It depends on targets how the underlying hardware taking care of the
+implementation part for minidump like above diagram is for shared
+memory and it is possible that this could be implemented via memory
+mapped regions but the general idea remain same.
+
+In this document, SMEM will be used as the backend implementation of
+minidump.
+
+SMEM as backend
+----------------
+
+The core of minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot firmware code.
+It initializes shared memory (SMEM), which is a part of DDR and
+allocates a small section of it to minidump table, i.e. also called
+global table of contents (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) has
+its own table of segments to be included in the minidump, all
+references from a descriptor in SMEM (G-ToC). Each segment/region has
+some details like name, physical address and its size etc. and it
+could be anywhere scattered in the DDR.
+
+Minidump kernel driver concept
+------------------------------
+::
+
+ Minidump Client-1 Client-2 Client-5 Client-n
+ | | | |
+ | | ... | ... |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | +---+--------------+----+ |
+ +-----------+ qcom_minidump(core) +--------+
+ | |
+ +------+-----+------+---+
+ | | |
+ | | |
+ +---------------+ | +--------------------+
+ | | |
+ | | |
+ | | |
+ v v v
+ +-------------------+ +-------------------+ +------------------+
+ |qcom_minidump_smem | |qcom_minidump_mmio | | qcom_minidump_rm |
+ | | | | | |
+ +-------------------+ +-------------------+ +------------------+
+ Shared memory Memory mapped IO Resource manager
+ (backend) (backend) (backend)
+
+
+Kernel implementation of minidump driver is divided into two parts one is,
+the core implementation called frontend driver ``qcom_minidump.c`` and this
+is the driver will be exposing the API for clients and the other part is,
+backend driver and its depends whether it is based on SMEM, MMIO or some
+other way corressponding driver will be hooking itself up with the core
+driver to get itself working. As of now, at a time one and only one backend
+can be attached to the front-end either it is HOST or a guest VM.
+
+Qualcomm minidump kernel driver adds the capability to add Linux region
+to be dumped as part of RAM dump collection. At the moment, shared memory
+driver creates platform device for minidump driver and give a means to
+APSS minidump to initialize itself on probe.
+
+This driver provides ``qcom_minidump_region_register`` and
+``qcom_minidump_region_unregister`` API's to register and unregister
+APSS minidump region. It also gives a mechanism to update physical/virtual
+address for the client whose addresses keeps on changing, e.g., current stack
+address of task keeps on changing on context switch for each core. So these
+clients can update their addresses with ``qcom_minidump_update_region``
+API.
+
+The driver also supports registration for the clients who came before
+minidump driver was initialized. It maintains pending list of clients
+who came before minidump and once minidump is initialized it registers
+them in one go.
+
+To simplify post-mortem debugging, driver creates and maintain an ELF
+header as first region that gets updated each time a new region gets
+registered.
+
+The solution supports extracting the RAM dump/minidump produced either
+over USB or stored to an attached storage device.
+
+Dependency of minidump kernel driver
+------------------------------------
+
+It is to note that whole of minidump depends on Qualcomm boot
+firmware whether it supports minidump or not. So, if the minidump
+SMEM ID is present in shared memory, it indicates that minidump
+is supported from boot firmware and it is possible to dump Linux
+(APSS) region as part of minidump collection.
+
+How a kernel client driver can register region with minidump
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Client driver can use ``qcom_minidump_region_register`` API's to
+register and ``qcom_minidump_region_unregister`` to unregister
+their region from minidump driver.
+
+Client needs to fill their region by filling ``qcom_minidump_region``
+structure object which consists of the region name, region's
+virtual and physical address and its size.
+
+Below is one sample client driver snippet which tries to allocate
+a region from kernel heap of certain size and it writes a certain
+known pattern (that can help in verification after collection
+that we got the exact pattern, what we wrote) and registers it with
+minidump.
+
+ .. code-block:: c
+
+ #include <soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.h>
+ [...]
+
+
+ [... inside a function ...]
+ struct qcom_minidump_region region;
+
+ [...]
+
+ client_mem_region = kzalloc(region_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!client_mem_region)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ [... Just write a pattern ...]
+ memset(client_mem_region, 0xAB, region_size);
+
+ [... Fill up the region object ...]
+ strlcpy(region.name, "REGION_A", sizeof(region.name));
+ region.virt_addr = client_mem_region;
+ region.phys_addr = virt_to_phys(client_mem_region);
+ region.size = region_size;
+
+ ret = qcom_minidump_region_register(&region);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ pr_err("failed to add region in minidump: err: %d\n", ret);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ [...]
+
+
+Test
+----
+
+Existing Qualcomm devices already supports entire RAM dump (also called
+full dump) by writing appropriate value to Qualcomm's top control and
+status register (tcsr) in ``driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c`` .
+
+SCM device Tree bindings required to support download mode
+For example (sm8450) ::
+
+ / {
+
+ [...]
+
+ firmware {
+ scm: scm {
+ compatible = "qcom,scm-sm8450", "qcom,scm";
+ [... tcsr register ... ]
+ qcom,dload-mode = <&tcsr 0x13000>;
+
+ [...]
+ };
+ };
+
+ [...]
+
+ soc: soc@0 {
+
+ [...]
+
+ tcsr: syscon@1fc0000 {
+ compatible = "qcom,sm8450-tcsr", "syscon";
+ reg = <0x0 0x1fc0000 0x0 0x30000>;
+ };
+
+ [...]
+ };
+ [...]
+
+ };
+
+User of minidump can pass ``qcom_scm.download_mode="mini"`` to kernel
+commandline to set the current download mode to minidump.
+Similarly, ``"full"`` is passed to set the download mode to full dump
+where entire RAM dump will be collected while setting it ``"full,mini"``
+will collect minidump along with fulldump.
+
+Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump::
+
+ echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
+
+Once the download mode is set, any kind of crash will make the device collect
+respective dump as per set download mode.
+
+Dump collection
+---------------
+
+The solution supports extracting the minidump produced either over USB or
+stored to an attached storage device.
+
+By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
+running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
+a set of binary blobs starting with name ``md_*`` in PCAT configured directory
+in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
+``md_REGION_A.BIN``. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
+whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
+so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
+can be seen just opening the binary file.
+
+To collect the dump to attached storage type, one needs to write appropriate
+value to IMEM register, in that case dumps are collected in rawdump
+partition on the target device itself.
+
+One needs to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
+save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
+can be passed to another tool (``dexter.exe`` [Qualcomm tool]) which converts
+this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
+was set to USB, i.e. a set of registered regions as blobs and their name
+starts with ``md_*``.
+
+Replacing the ``dexter.exe`` with some open source tool can be added as future
+scope of this document.
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