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Piccoli" Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/30] panic: Add the panic hypervisor notifier list Message-ID: References: <20220427224924.592546-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220427224924.592546-20-gpiccoli@igalia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 18 May 2022 21:06:24 +1000 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: Paul Mackerras , Justin Chen , Pavel Machek , Alexander Gordeev , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Wei Liu , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Christian Borntraeger , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Nicholas Piggin , luto@kernel.org, Mihai Carabas , tglx@linutronix.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , Vasily Gorbik , vgoyal@redhat.com, Sven Schnelle , Andrea Parri , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, john.ogness@linutronix.de, Scott Branden , Doug Berger , Markus Mayer , hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, halves@canonical.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, feng.tang@intel.com, zhenwei pi , will@kernel.org, Florian Fainelli , bhe@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, Dexuan Cui , Evan Green , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, Tianyu Lan , keescook@chromium.org, arnd@arndb.de, Haiyang Zhang , rostedt@goodmis.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, bp@alien8.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Sebastian Reichel , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Brian Norris , "David S. Miller" , peterz@infradead.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, mikelley@microsoft.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones , Ard Biesheuvel , linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, Heiko Carstens , Shile Zhang , Wang ShaoBo , Christophe JAILLET , David Gow , linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, Hari Bathini , linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, jgross@suse.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel@gpiccoli.net, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Julius Werner , vkuznets@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Tue 2022-05-17 13:42:06, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > On 17/05/2022 10:57, Petr Mladek wrote: > >> Disagree here, I'm CCing Florian for information. > >> > >> This notifier preserves RAM so it's *very interesting* if we have > >> kmsg_dump() for example, but maybe might be also relevant in case kdump > >> kernel is configured to store something in a persistent RAM (then, > >> without this notifier, after kdump reboots the system data would be lost). > > > > I see. It is actually similar problem as with > > drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c. > > > > I does similar things like kmsg_dump() so it should be called in > > the same location (after info notifier list and before kdump). > > > > A solution might be to put it at these notifiers at the very > > end of the "info" list or make extra "dump" notifier list. > > Here I still disagree. I've commented in the other response thread > (about Google gsmi) about the semantics of the hypervisor list, but > again: this list should contain callbacks that > > (a) Should run early, _by default_ before a kdump; > (b) Communicate with the firmware/hypervisor in a "low-risk" way; > > Imagine a scenario where users configure kdump kernel to save something > in a persistent form in DRAM - it'd be like a late pstore, in the next > kernel. This callback enables that, it's meant to inform FW "hey, panic > happened, please from now on don't clear the RAM in the next FW-reboot". > I don't see a reason to postpone that - let's see if the maintainers > have an opinion. I have answered this in more detail in the other reply, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/YoShZVYNAdvvjb7z@alley I agree that both notifiers in drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c better fit into the hypervisor list after all. Best Regards, Petr