Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: pinephone: Add pstore support for PinePhone A64

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:36:51 +0200
Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi Andrey,

> send new revision as standalone e-mail, not as reply to old discussion.
> 
> Dne torek, 22. avgust 2023 ob 11:23:58 CEST je Andrey Skvortsov napisal(a):
> > This patch reserves some memory in the DTS and sets up a
> > pstore device tree node to enable pstore support.
> > 
> > In general any DRAM address, that isn't overwritten during a boot is
> > suitable for pstore.
> > 
> > Range from 0x40000000 - 0x50000000 is heavily used by u-boot for
> > internal use and to load kernel, fdt, fdto, scripts, pxefile and ramdisk
> > later in the boot process. Ramdisk start address is 0x4FF00000,
> > initramfs for kernel with some hacking features and debug info enabled
> > can take more than 100Mb and final address will be around 0x58000000.
> > Address 0x61000000 will most likely not overlap with that.  
> 
> There are other bootloaders as U-Boot, especially on PinePhone. Are you sure 
> it works there too? What about U-Boot configuration, will those addresses still 
> be used if configuration is changed?

Also going along with what Pavel said (that's it more a policy
decision, not a device property), I feel like this node should be added
by the bootloader then. And indeed U-Boot has support for that already.
From skimming over the code in cmd/pstore.c: if you enable
CONFIG_CMD_PSTORE and set CONFIG_CMD_PSTORE_MEM_ADDR to your chosen
address, then the U-Boot code will insert a reserved memory node on the
fly. Would that solve your problem?

Cheers,
Andre

> Best regards,
> Jernej
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> >  - Update commit description with information about why this base address is
> > used.
> > 
> >  .../boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi
> > b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi index
> > 87847116ab6d..84f9410b0b70 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi
> > @@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ aliases {
> >  		serial0 = &uart0;
> >  	};
> > 
> > +	reserved-memory {
> > +		#address-cells = <1>;
> > +		#size-cells = <1>;
> > +		ranges;
> > +
> > +		pstore_mem: ramoops@61000000 {
> > +			compatible = "ramoops";
> > +			reg = <0x61000000 0x100000>;
> > +			record-size = <0x20000>;
> > +			console-size = <0x20000>;
> > +			ftrace-size = <0x20000>;
> > +			pmsg-size = <0x20000>;
> > +			ecc-size = <16>;
> > +		};
> > +	};
> > +
> >  	backlight: backlight {
> >  		compatible = "pwm-backlight";
> >  		pwms = <&r_pwm 0 50000 PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED>;  
> 
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