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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:10:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Sourabh Jain To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH v7 3/3] Documentation/powerpc: update fadump implementation details Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:39:43 +0530 Message-ID: <20240111140943.297501-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20240111140943.297501-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> References: <20240111140943.297501-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: 2bzXzDuj8viMvdaLjSIo39GY8TFz_YeZ X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: 2bzXzDuj8viMvdaLjSIo39GY8TFz_YeZ X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.272,Aquarius:18.0.997,Hydra:6.0.619,FMLib:17.11.176.26 definitions=2024-01-11_07,2024-01-11_01,2023-05-22_02 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 impostorscore=0 phishscore=0 clxscore=1015 spamscore=0 adultscore=0 suspectscore=0 bulkscore=0 priorityscore=1501 mlxscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 malwarescore=0 mlxlogscore=999 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2311290000 definitions=main-2401110112 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar , Sourabh Jain , Naveen N Rao , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Aditya Gupta , Hari Bathini Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" The patch titled ("powerpc: make fadump resilient with memory add/remove events") has made significant changes to the implementation of fadump, particularly on elfcorehdr creation and fadump crash info header structure. Therefore, updating the fadump implementation documentation to reflect those changes. Following updates are done to firmware assisted dump documentation: 1. The elfcorehdr is no longer stored after fadump HDR in the reserved dump area. Instead, the second kernel dynamically allocates memory for the elfcorehdr within the address range from 0 to the boot memory size. Therefore, update figures 1 and 2 of Memory Reservation during the first and second kernels to reflect this change. 2. A version field has been added to the fadump header to manage the future changes to fadump crash info header structure without changing the fadump header magic number in the future. Therefore, remove the corresponding TODO from the document. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Cc: Aditya Gupta Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Naveen N Rao --- .../arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst | 91 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst index e363fc48529a..7e37aadd1f77 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst @@ -134,12 +134,12 @@ that are run. If there is dump data, then the memory is held. 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. +hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump, and FADump 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 @@ -153,22 +153,22 @@ 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 | | 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) | + Low memory Top of memory + 0 boot memory size |<------ Reserved dump area ----->| | + | | | Permanent Reservation | | + V V | | V + +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-----------+-------+----+-----+ + | | |///|////| DUMP | HDR |////| | + +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-----------+-------+----+-----+ + | ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | | | | | + \ CPU HPTE / | | + -------------------------------- | | + Boot memory content gets transferred | | + to reserved area by firmware at the | | + time of crash. | | + FADump Header | + (meta area) | | | Metadata: This area holds a metadata structure whose @@ -186,13 +186,20 @@ that were present in CMA region:: 0 boot memory size | | |<------------ Crash preserved area ------------>| V V |<--- Reserved dump area --->| | - +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+ - | | |///|////| DUMP | HDR | ELF |////| | - +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+ - | | - V V - Used by second /proc/vmcore - kernel to boot + +----+---+--+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+ + | |ELF| | |///|////| DUMP | HDR |/////| | + +----+---+--+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+-------+ + | | | | | | + ----- ------------------------------ --------------- + \ | | + \ | | + \ | | + \ | ---------------------------- + \ | / + \ | / + \ | / + /proc/vmcore + +---+ |///| -> Regions (CPU, HPTE & Metadata) marked like this in the above @@ -200,6 +207,12 @@ that were present in CMA region:: does not have CPU & HPTE regions while Metadata region is not supported on pSeries currently. + +---+ + |ELF| -> elfcorehdr, it is created in second kernel after crash. + +---+ + + Note: Memory from 0 to the boot memory size is used by second kernel + Fig. 2 @@ -353,26 +366,6 @@ TODO: - Need to come up with the better approach to find out more accurate boot memory size that is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted memory. - - The FADump implementation introduces a FADump crash info structure - in the scratch area before the ELF core header. The idea of introducing - this structure is 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. The current - design implementation does not address a possibility of introducing - additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting - compatibility. Need to come up with the better approach to address this. - - The possible approaches are: - - 1. Introduce version field for version tracking, bump up the version - whenever a new field is added to the structure in future. The version - field can be used to find out what fields are valid for the current - version of the structure. - 2. Reserve the area of predefined size (say PAGE_SIZE) for this - structure and have unused area as reserved (initialized to zero) - for future field additions. - - The advantage of approach 1 over 2 is we don't need to reserve extra space. Author: Mahesh Salgaonkar -- 2.41.0