From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>,
arve@android.com, Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@android.com>,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 4/6] pstore/ram: Add some more documentation and examples
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 05:56:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120516125658.GD20475@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120516125330.GA15460@lizard>
Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
---
Documentation/ramoops.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
index 4ba7db2..138823b 100644
--- a/Documentation/ramoops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ corrupt, but usually it is restorable.
Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different manners:
1. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
as before).
+ For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during boot
+ and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a machine
+ with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell the
+ kernel to use only the first 128 MB of memory, and place ECC-protected ramoops
+ region at 128 MB boundary:
+ "mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1"
2. Use a platform device and set the platform data. The parameters can then
be set through that platform data. An example of doing that is:
@@ -70,6 +76,15 @@ if (ret) {
return ret;
}
+You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when
+specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve()
+very early in the architecture code, just before platform device registration,
+e.g.:
+
+#include <linux/memblock.h>
+
+memblock_reserve(ramoops_data.mem_address, ramoops_data.mem_size);
+
3. Dump format
The data dump begins with a header, currently defined as "====" followed by a
--
1.7.9.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-16 12:53 [PATCH 0/6] Merge ram_console into pstore Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] pstore: Add console log messages support Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 16:49 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-16 22:33 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-17 0:47 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] pstore/ram: Add console messages handling Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 15:30 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-16 22:20 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 16:45 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-16 22:28 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] pstore/ram_core: Silence some printks Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:56 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-05-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] pstore/ram: Add some more documentation and examples Shuah Khan
2012-05-16 17:56 ` Colin Cross
2012-05-16 22:11 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 22:25 ` Colin Cross
2012-05-16 12:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] staging/android: Remove ram_console driver Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] pstore/ram_core: Remove now unused code Anton Vorontsov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-17 8:37 [PATCH v2 0/6] Merge ram_console into pstore Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-17 8:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] pstore/ram: Add some more documentation and examples Anton Vorontsov
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