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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..296d5027787a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst @@ -0,0 +1,243 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +pstore block oops/panic logger +============================== + +Introduction +------------ + +pstore block (pstore/blk) is an oops/panic logger that writes its logs to a +block device and non-block device before the system crashes. You can get +these log files by mounting pstore filesystem like:: + + mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore + + +pstore block concepts +--------------------- + +pstore/blk provides efficient configuration method for pstore/blk, which +divides all configurations into two parts, configurations for user and +configurations for driver. + +Configurations for user determine how pstore/blk works, such as pmsg_size, +kmsg_size and so on. All of them support both Kconfig and module parameters, +but module parameters have priority over Kconfig. + +Configurations for driver are all about block device and non-block device, +such as total_size of block device and read/write operations. + +Configurations for user +----------------------- + +All of these configurations support both Kconfig and module parameters, but +module parameters have priority over Kconfig. + +Here is an example for module parameters:: + + pstore_blk.blkdev=179:7 pstore_blk.kmsg_size=64 + +The detail of each configurations may be of interest to you. + +blkdev +~~~~~~ + +The block device to use. Most of the time, it is a partition of block device. +It's required for pstore/blk. It is also used for MTD device. + +It accepts the following variants for block device: + +1. <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself; no + leading 0x, for example b302. +#. /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk +#. /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number of partition - device + number of disk plus the partition number +#. /dev/<disk_name>p<decimal> - same as the above; this form is used when disk + name of partitioned disk ends with a digit. +#. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of + a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an + EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP, + where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit + "NT disk signature", and PP is a zero-filled hex representation of the + 1-based partition number. +#. PARTUUID=<UUID>/PARTNROFF=<int> to select a partition in relation to a + partition with a known unique id. +#. <major>:<minor> major and minor number of the device separated by a colon. + +It accepts the following variants for MTD device: + +1. <device name> MTD device name. "pstore" is recommended. +#. <device number> MTD device number. + +kmsg_size +~~~~~~~~~ + +The chunk size in KB for oops/panic front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. +It's optional if you do not care oops/panic log. + +There are multiple chunks for oops/panic front-end depending on the remaining +space except other pstore front-ends. + +pstore/blk will log to oops/panic chunks one by one, and always overwrite the +oldest chunk if there is no more free chunk. + +pmsg_size +~~~~~~~~~ + +The chunk size in KB for pmsg front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. +It's optional if you do not care pmsg log. + +Unlike oops/panic front-end, there is only one chunk for pmsg front-end. + +Pmsg is a user space accessible pstore object. Writes to */dev/pmsg0* are +appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are available in +*/sys/fs/pstore/pmsg-pstore-blk-0*. + +console_size +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The chunk size in KB for console front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. +It's optional if you do not care console log. + +Similar to pmsg front-end, there is only one chunk for console front-end. + +All log of console will be appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are +available in */sys/fs/pstore/console-pstore-blk-0*. + +ftrace_size +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The chunk size in KB for ftrace front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. +It's optional if you do not care console log. + +Similar to oops front-end, there are multiple chunks for ftrace front-end +depending on the count of cpu processors. Each chunk size is equal to +ftrace_size / processors_count. + +All log of ftrace will be appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are +combined and available in */sys/fs/pstore/ftrace-pstore-blk-0*. + +Persistent function tracing might be useful for debugging software or hardware +related hangs. Here is an example of usage:: + + # mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore + # mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/ + # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/pstore/record_ftrace + # reboot -f + [...] + # mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore + # tail /sys/fs/pstore/ftrace-pstore-blk-0 + CPU:0 ts:5914676 c0063828 c0063b94 call_cpuidle <- cpu_startup_entry+0x1b8/0x1e0 + CPU:0 ts:5914678 c039ecdc c006385c cpuidle_enter_state <- call_cpuidle+0x44/0x48 + CPU:0 ts:5914680 c039e9a0 c039ecf0 cpuidle_enter_freeze <- cpuidle_enter_state+0x304/0x314 + CPU:0 ts:5914681 c0063870 c039ea30 sched_idle_set_state <- cpuidle_enter_state+0x44/0x314 + CPU:1 ts:5916720 c0160f59 c015ee04 kernfs_unmap_bin_file <- __kernfs_remove+0x140/0x204 + CPU:1 ts:5916721 c05ca625 c015ee0c __mutex_lock_slowpath <- __kernfs_remove+0x148/0x204 + CPU:1 ts:5916723 c05c813d c05ca630 yield_to <- __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x314/0x358 + CPU:1 ts:5916724 c05ca2d1 c05ca638 __ww_mutex_lock <- __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x31c/0x358 + +max_reason +~~~~~~~~~~ + +Limiting which kinds of kmsg dumps are stored can be controlled via +the ``max_reason`` value, as defined in include/linux/kmsg_dump.h's +``enum kmsg_dump_reason``. For example, to store both Oopses and Panics, +``max_reason`` should be set to 2 (KMSG_DUMP_OOPS), to store only Panics +``max_reason`` should be set to 1 (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC). Setting this to 0 +(KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the reason filtering will be controlled by the +``printk.always_kmsg_dump`` boot param: if unset, it'll be KMSG_DUMP_OOPS, +otherwise KMSG_DUMP_MAX. + +Configurations for driver +------------------------- + +Only a block device driver cares about these configurations. A block device +driver uses ``register_pstore_blk`` to register to pstore/blk. + +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c + :identifiers: register_pstore_blk + +A non-block device driver uses ``register_pstore_device`` with +``struct pstore_device_info`` to register to pstore/blk. + +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c + :identifiers: register_pstore_device + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_blk.h + :identifiers: pstore_device_info + +Compression and header +---------------------- + +Block device is large enough for uncompressed oops data. Actually we do not +recommend data compression because pstore/blk will insert some information into +the first line of oops/panic data. For example:: + + Panic: Total 16 times + +It means that it's OOPS|Panic for the 16th time since the first booting. +Sometimes the number of occurrences of oops|panic since the first booting is +important to judge whether the system is stable. + +The following line is inserted by pstore filesystem. For example:: + + Oops#2 Part1 + +It means that it's OOPS for the 2nd time on the last boot. + +Reading the data +---------------- + +The dump data can be read from the pstore filesystem. The format for these +files is ``dmesg-pstore-blk-[N]`` for oops/panic front-end, +``pmsg-pstore-blk-0`` for pmsg front-end and so on. The timestamp of the +dump file records the trigger time. To delete a stored record from block +device, simply unlink the respective pstore file. + +Attentions in panic read/write APIs +----------------------------------- + +If on panic, the kernel is not going to run for much longer, the tasks will not +be scheduled and most kernel resources will be out of service. It +looks like a single-threaded program running on a single-core computer. + +The following points require special attention for panic read/write APIs: + +1. Can **NOT** allocate any memory. + If you need memory, just allocate while the block driver is initializing + rather than waiting until the panic. +#. Must be polled, **NOT** interrupt driven. + No task schedule any more. The block driver should delay to ensure the write + succeeds, but NOT sleep. +#. Can **NOT** take any lock. + There is no other task, nor any shared resource; you are safe to break all + locks. +#. Just use CPU to transfer. + Do not use DMA to transfer unless you are sure that DMA will not keep lock. +#. Control registers directly. + Please control registers directly rather than use Linux kernel resources. + Do I/O map while initializing rather than wait until a panic occurs. +#. Reset your block device and controller if necessary. + If you are not sure of the state of your block device and controller when + a panic occurs, you are safe to stop and reset them. + +pstore/blk supports psblk_blkdev_info(), which is defined in +*linux/pstore_blk.h*, to get information of using block device, such as the +device number, sector count and start sector of the whole disk. + +pstore block internals +---------------------- + +For developer reference, here are all the important structures and APIs: + +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/zone.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_zone.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_blk.h + :internal: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst index 6dbcc5481000..a60a96218ba9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst @@ -32,11 +32,17 @@ memory to be mapped strongly ordered, and atomic operations on strongly ordered memory are implementation defined, and won't work on many ARMs such as omaps. The memory area is divided into ``record_size`` chunks (also rounded down to -power of two) and each oops/panic writes a ``record_size`` chunk of +power of two) and each kmesg dump writes a ``record_size`` chunk of information. -Dumping both oopses and panics can be done by setting 1 in the ``dump_oops`` -variable while setting 0 in that variable dumps only the panics. +Limiting which kinds of kmsg dumps are stored can be controlled via +the ``max_reason`` value, as defined in include/linux/kmsg_dump.h's +``enum kmsg_dump_reason``. For example, to store both Oopses and Panics, +``max_reason`` should be set to 2 (KMSG_DUMP_OOPS), to store only Panics +``max_reason`` should be set to 1 (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC). Setting this to 0 +(KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the reason filtering will be controlled by the +``printk.always_kmsg_dump`` boot param: if unset, it'll be KMSG_DUMP_OOPS, +otherwise KMSG_DUMP_MAX. The module uses a counter to record multiple dumps but the counter gets reset on restart (i.e. new dumps after the restart will overwrite old ones). @@ -90,7 +96,7 @@ Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in several different manners: .mem_address = <...>, .mem_type = <...>, .record_size = <...>, - .dump_oops = <...>, + .max_reason = <...>, .ecc = <...>, }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt index 0eba562fe5c6..b7886fea368c 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Optional properties: - ecc-size: enables ECC support and specifies ECC buffer size in bytes (defaults to 0: no ECC) -- record-size: maximum size in bytes of each dump done on oops/panic +- record-size: maximum size in bytes of each kmsg dump. (defaults to 0: disabled) - console-size: size in bytes of log buffer reserved for kernel messages @@ -45,7 +45,16 @@ Optional properties: - unbuffered: if present, use unbuffered mappings to map the reserved region (defaults to buffered mappings) -- no-dump-oops: if present, only dump panics (defaults to panics and oops) +- max-reason: if present, sets maximum type of kmsg dump reasons to store + (defaults to 2: log Oopses and Panics). This can be set to INT_MAX to + store all kmsg dumps. See include/linux/kmsg_dump.h KMSG_DUMP_* for other + kmsg dump reason values. Setting this to 0 (KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the + reason filtering will be controlled by the printk.always_kmsg_dump boot + param: if unset, it will be KMSG_DUMP_OOPS, otherwise KMSG_DUMP_MAX. + +- no-dump-oops: deprecated, use max_reason instead. If present, and + max_reason is not specified, it is equivalent to max_reason = 1 + (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC). - flags: if present, pass ramoops behavioral flags (defaults to 0, see include/linux/pstore_ram.h RAMOOPS_FLAG_* for flag values). |