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2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156Thomas Gleixner
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-03powerpc/mm: move hugetlb_disabled into asm/hugetlb.hChristophe Leroy
No need to have this in asm/page.h, move it into asm/hugetlb.h Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-21powerpc/fadump: Do not allow hot-remove memory from fadump reserved area.Mahesh Salgaonkar
For fadump to work successfully there should not be any holes in reserved memory ranges where kernel has asked firmware to move the content of old kernel memory in event of crash. Now that fadump uses CMA for reserved area, this memory area is now not protected from hot-remove operations unless it is cma allocated. Hence, fadump service can fail to re-register after the hot-remove operation, if hot-removed memory belongs to fadump reserved region. To avoid this make sure that memory from fadump reserved area is not hot-removable if fadump is registered. However, if user still wants to remove that memory, he can do so by manually stopping fadump service before hot-remove operation. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-21powerpc/fadump: Throw proper error message on fadump registration failureMahesh Salgaonkar
fadump fails to register when there are holes in reserved memory area. This can happen if user has hot-removed a memory that falls in the fadump reserved memory area. Throw a meaningful error message to the user in such case. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: is_reserved_memory_area_contiguous() returns bool, unsplit string] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-21powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dumpMahesh Salgaonkar
One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite significant. In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed. In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool. While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else". We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation model for fadump. Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use, this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region. Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream: [root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7557 193 6822 12 541 6725 Swap: 4095 0 4095 With this patch: [root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 8133 194 7464 12 475 7338 Swap: 4095 0 4095 Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has traditionally worked. Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand CMA and its usage. TODO: - Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-11-25powerpc/fadump: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macroYangtao Li
Use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-19powerpc/fadump: re-register firmware-assisted dump if already registeredHari Bathini
Firmware-Assisted Dump (FADump) needs to be registered again after any memory hot add/remove operation to update the crash memory ranges. But currently, the kernel returns '-EEXIST' if we try to register without uregistering it first. This could expose the system to racing issues while unregistering and registering FADump from userspace during udev events. Spare the userspace of this and let it be taken care of in the kernel space for a simpler interface. Since this change, running 'echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_registered' would result in re-regisering (unregistering and registering) FADump, if it was already registered. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-20powerpc/fadump: cleanup crash memory ranges supportHari Bathini
Commit 1bd6a1c4b80a ("powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow") changed crash memory ranges to a dynamic array that is reallocated on-demand with krealloc(). The relevant header for this call was not included. The kernel compiles though. But be cautious and add the header anyway. Also, memory allocation logic in fadump_add_crash_memory() takes care of memory allocation for crash memory ranges in all scenarios. Drop unnecessary memory allocation in fadump_setup_crash_memory_ranges(). Fixes: 1bd6a1c4b80a ("powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow") Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-10powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segementsHari Bathini
With dynamic memory allocation support for crash memory ranges array, there is no hard limit on the no. of crash memory ranges kernel could export, but program headers count could overflow in the /proc/vmcore ELF file while exporting each memory range as PT_LOAD segment. Reduce the likelihood of a such scenario, by folding adjacent crash memory ranges which minimizes the total number of PT_LOAD segments. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-10powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflowHari Bathini
Crash memory ranges is an array of memory ranges of the crashing kernel to be exported as a dump via /proc/vmcore file. The size of the array is set based on INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS, which works alright in most cases where memblock memory regions count is less than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. But this count can grow beyond INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value since commit 142b45a72e22 ("memblock: Add array resizing support"). On large memory systems with a few DLPAR operations, the memblock memory regions count could be larger than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. On such systems, registering fadump results in crash or other system failures like below: task: c00007f39a290010 ti: c00000000b738000 task.ti: c00000000b738000 NIP: c000000000047df4 LR: c0000000000f9e58 CTR: c00000000010f180 REGS: c00000000b73b570 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G L X (4.4.140+) MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22004484 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c000000000008500 DAR: 000007a450000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0 ... NIP [c000000000047df4] smp_send_reschedule+0x24/0x80 LR [c0000000000f9e58] resched_curr+0x138/0x160 Call Trace: resched_curr+0x138/0x160 (unreliable) check_preempt_curr+0xc8/0xf0 ttwu_do_wakeup+0x38/0x150 try_to_wake_up+0x224/0x4d0 __wake_up_common+0x94/0x100 ep_poll_callback+0xac/0x1c0 __wake_up_common+0x94/0x100 __wake_up_sync_key+0x70/0xa0 sock_def_readable+0x58/0xa0 unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2dc/0x4c0 sock_sendmsg+0x68/0xa0 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2cc/0x2e0 __sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xc0 SyS_socketcall+0x36c/0x3f0 system_call+0x3c/0x100 as array index overflow is not checked for while setting up crash memory ranges causing memory corruption. To resolve this issue, dynamically allocate memory for crash memory ranges and resize it incrementally, in units of pagesize, on hitting array size limit. Fixes: 2df173d9e85d ("fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+ Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Just use PAGE_SIZE directly, fixup variable placement] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03powerpc/fadump: Unregister fadump on kexec down path.Mahesh Salgaonkar
Unregister fadump on kexec down path otherwise the fadump registration in new kexec-ed kernel complains that fadump is already registered. This makes new kernel to continue using fadump registered by previous kernel which may lead to invalid vmcore generation. Hence this patch fixes this issue by un-registering fadump in fadump_cleanup() which is called during kexec path so that new kernel can register fadump with new valid values. Fixes: b500afff11f6 ("fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+ Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03powerpc/fadump: Do not use hugepages when fadump is activeHari Bathini
FADump capture kernel boots in restricted memory environment preserving the context of previous kernel to save vmcore. Supporting hugepages in such environment makes things unnecessarily complicated, as hugepages need memory set aside for them. This means most of the capture kernel's memory is used in supporting hugepages. In most cases, this results in out-of-memory issues while booting FADump capture kernel. But hugepages are not of much use in capture kernel whose only job is to save vmcore. So, disabling hugepages support, when fadump is active, is a reliable solution for the out of memory issues. Introducing a flag variable to disable HugeTLB support when fadump is active. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-03powerpc/fadump: exclude memory holes while reserving memory in second kernelMahesh Salgaonkar
The second kernel, during early boot after the crash, reserves rest of the memory above boot memory size to make sure it does not touch any of the dump memory area. It uses memblock_reserve() that reserves the specified memory region irrespective of memory holes present within that region. There are chances where previous kernel would have hot removed some of its memory leaving memory holes behind. In such cases fadump kernel reports incorrect number of reserved pages through arch_reserved_kernel_pages() hook causing kernel to hang or panic. Fix this by excluding memory holes while reserving rest of the memory above boot memory size during second kernel boot after crash. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-12-05Revert "powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier"David Gibson
This reverts commit a3b2cb30f252b21a6f962e0dd107c8b897ca65e4. That commit tried to fix problems with panic on powerpc in certain circumstances, where some output from the generic panic code was being dropped. Unfortunately, it breaks things worse in other circumstances. In particular when running a PAPR guest, it will now attempt to reboot instead of informing the hypervisor (KVM or PowerVM) that the guest has crashed. The crash notification is important to some virtualization management layers. Revert it for now until we can come up with a better solution. Fixes: a3b2cb30f252 ("powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+ Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> [mpe: Tweak change log a bit] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-13powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs storeMichal Suchanek
Currently sysfs store handlers in fadump use if buf[0] == 'char'. This means input "100foo" is interpreted as '1' and "01" as '0'. Change to kstrtoint so leading zeroes and the like is handled in expected way. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:msuchanek@suse.de">&lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;</a></pre> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-08-31powerpc/powernv: Use kernel crash path for machine checksNicholas Piggin
There are quite a few machine check exceptions that can be caused by kernel bugs. To make debugging easier, use the kernel crash path in cases of synchronous machine checks that occur in kernel mode, if that would not result in the machine going straight to panic or crash dump. There is a downside here that die()ing the process in kernel mode can still leave the system unstable. panic_on_oops will always force the system to fail-stop, so systems where that behaviour is important will still do the right thing. As a test, when triggering an i-side 0111b error (ifetch from foreign address) in kernel mode process context on POWER9, the kernel currently dies quickly like this: Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered] NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000 Initiator: CPU Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)] [ 127.426651616,0] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. Effective[ 127.426693712,3] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. address: ffff000000000000 opal: Reboot type 1 not supported Kernel panic - not syncing: PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check CPU: 56 PID: 4425 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #35 Call Trace: [ 128.017988928,4] IPMI: BUG: Dropping ESEL on the floor due to buggy/mising code in OPAL for this BMC Rebooting in 10 seconds.. Trying to free IRQ 496 from IRQ context! After this patch, the process is killed and the kernel continues with this message, which gives enough information to identify the offending branch (i.e., with CFAR): Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered] NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000 Initiator: CPU Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)] Effective address: ffff000000000000 Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ... CPU: 22 PID: 4436 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #36 task: c000000932300000 task.stack: c000000932380000 NIP: ffff000000000000 LR: 00000000217706a4 CTR: ffff000000000000 REGS: c00000000fc8fd80 TRAP: 0200 Tainted: G M (4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty) MSR: 90000000001c1003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE> CR: 24000484 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c000000000004c80 DAR: 0000000021770a90 DSISR: 0a000000 SOFTE: 1 GPR00: 0000000000001ebe 00007fffce4818b0 0000000021797f00 0000000000000000 GPR04: 00007fff8007ac24 0000000044000484 0000000000004000 00007fff801405e8 GPR08: 900000000280f033 0000000024000484 0000000000000000 0000000000000030 GPR12: 9000000000001003 00007fff801bc370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR28: 00007fff801b0000 0000000000000000 00000000217707a0 00007fffce481918 NIP [ffff000000000000] 0xffff000000000000 LR [00000000217706a4] 0x217706a4 Call Trace: Instruction dump: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-08-31powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifierNicholas Piggin
If fadump is not registered, and no other crash or debug handlers are registered, the powerpc panic handler stops the guest before the generic panic code can push out debug information to the console. Currently, system reset injection causes the guest to silently stop. Stop calling ppc_md.panic in the panic notifier. crash_fadump already does rtas_os_term() to terminate the guest if fadump is registered. Remove ppc_md.panic. Move fadump panic notifier into fadump code. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-07-12powerpc/fadump: use the correct VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE for phdrXunlei Pang
vmcoreinfo_max_size stands for the vmcoreinfo_data, the correct one we should use is vmcoreinfo_note whose total size is VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE. Like explained in commit 77019967f06b ("kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note"), it should not affect the actual function, but we better fix it, also this change should be safe and backward compatible. After this, we can get rid of variable vmcoreinfo_max_size, let's use the corresponding macros directly, fewer variables means more safety for vmcoreinfo operation. [xlpang@redhat.com: fix build warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494830606-27736-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-2-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-28powerpc/fadump: add reschedule point while releasing memoryHari Bathini
Around 95% of memory is reserved by fadump/capture kernel. All this memory is freed, one page at a time, on writing '1' to the node /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem. On systems with large memory, this can take a long time to complete, leading to soft lockup warning messages. To avoid this, add reschedule points at regular intervals. Also, while memblock_reserve() implicitly takes care of holes in the given memory range while reserving memory, those holes need to be taken care of while releasing memory as memory is freed one page at a time. Add support to skip holes while releasing memory. Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28powerpc/fadump: provide a helpful error messageHari Bathini
fadump fails to register when there are holes in boot memory area. Provide a helpful error message to the user in such case. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28powerpc/fadump: avoid holes in boot memory area when fadump is registeredHari Bathini
To register fadump, boot memory area - the size of low memory chunk that is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted memory, is assumed to have no holes. But this memory area is currently not protected from hot-remove operations. So, fadump could fail to re-register after a memory hot-remove operation, if memory is removed from boot memory area. To avoid this, ensure that memory from boot memory area is not hot-removed when fadump is registered. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-28powerpc/fadump: avoid duplicates in crash memory rangesHari Bathini
fadump sets up crash memory ranges to be used for creating PT_LOAD program headers in elfcore header. Memory chunk RMA_START through boot memory area size is added as the first memory range because firmware, at the time of crash, moves this memory chunk to different location specified during fadump registration making it necessary to create a separate program header for it with the correct offset. This memory chunk is skipped while setting up the remaining memory ranges. But currently, there is possibility that some of this memory may have duplicate entries like when it is hot-removed and added again. Ensure that no two memory ranges represent the same memory. When 5 lmbs are hot-removed and then hot-plugged before registering fadump, here is how the program headers in /proc/vmcore exported by fadump look like without this change: Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align NOTE 0x0000000000010000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000001894 0x0000000000001894 0 LOAD 0x0000000000021020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x0000000040031020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000010000000 0x0000000010000000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x0000000050040000 0xc000000010000000 0x0000000010000000 0x0000000050000000 0x0000000050000000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x00000000a0040000 0xc000000060000000 0x0000000060000000 0x000000019ffe0000 0x000000019ffe0000 RWE 0 and with this change: Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align NOTE 0x0000000000010000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000001894 0x0000000000001894 0 LOAD 0x0000000000021020 0xc000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x0000000040030000 0xc000000040000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000020000000 0x0000000020000000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x0000000060030000 0xc000000060000000 0x0000000060000000 0x000000019ffe0000 0x000000019ffe0000 RWE 0 Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-02powerpc/fadump: Set an upper limit for boot memory sizeHari Bathini
By default, 5% of system RAM is reserved for preserving boot memory. Alternatively, a user can specify the amount of memory to reserve. See Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt for details. In addition to the memory reserved for preserving boot memory, some more memory is reserved, to save HPTE region, CPU state data and ELF core headers. Memory Reservation during first kernel looks like below: Low memory Top of memory 0 boot memory size | | | |<--Reserved dump area -->| V V | Permanent Reservation V +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ | ^ | | \ / ------------------------------------------- Boot memory content gets transferred to reserved area by firmware at the time of crash This implicitly means that the sum of the sizes of boot memory, CPU state data, HPTE region, DUMP preserving area and ELF core headers can't be greater than the total memory size. But currently, a user is allowed to specify any value as boot memory size. So, the above rule is violated when a boot memory size around 50% of the total available memory is specified. As the kernel is not handling this currently, it may lead to undefined behavior. Fix it by setting an upper limit for boot memory size to 25% of the total available memory. Also, instead of using memblock_end_of_DRAM(), which doesn't take the holes, if any, in the memory layout into account, use memblock_phys_mem_size() to calculate the percentage of total available memory. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-02powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reservedHari Bathini
With commit f6e6bedb7731 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change them appropriately. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-02powerpc/fadump: Add a warning when 'fadump_reserve_mem=' is usedHari Bathini
With commit 11550dc0a00b ("powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation"), 'fadump_reserve_mem=' parameter is deprecated in favor of 'crashkernel=' parameter. Add a warning if 'fadump_reserve_mem=' is still used. Fixes: 11550dc0a00b ("powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation") Suggested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Unsplit long printk strings] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-02powerpc/fadump: Return error when fadump registration failsMichal Suchanek
- log an error message when registration fails and no error code listed in the switch is returned - translate the hv error code to posix error code and return it from fw_register - return the posix error code from fw_register to the process writing to sysfs - return EEXIST on re-registration - return success on deregistration when fadump is not registered - return ENODEV when no memory is reserved for fadump Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> Tested-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Use pr_err() to shrink the error print] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-05-08powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservationHari Bathini
fadump supports specifying memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel with fadump_reserve_mem kernel parameter. This parameter currently supports passing a fixed memory size, like fadump_reserve_mem=<size> only. This patch aims to add support for other syntaxes like range-based memory size <range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,<range3>:<size3>,...] which allows using the same parameter to boot the kernel with different system RAM sizes. As crashkernel parameter already supports the above mentioned syntaxes, this patch deprecates fadump_reserve_mem parameter and reuses crashkernel parameter instead, to specify memory for fadump's crash kernel memory reservation as well. If any offset is provided in crashkernel parameter, it will be ignored in case of fadump, as fadump reserves memory at end of RAM. Advantages using crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem parameter are one less kernel parameter overall, code reuse and support for multiple syntaxes to specify memory. Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035346749.6881.911095631212975718.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-08powerpc/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXECHari Bathini
Now that crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related code is moved under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for CONFIG_FA_DUMP. While here, get rid of definitions of fadump_append_elf_note() & fadump_final_note() functions to reuse similar functions compiled under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035343956.6881.1536459326017709354.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-11powerpc: Remove unnecessary includes of asm/debug.hMichael Ellerman
These files don't seem to have any need for asm/debug.h, now that all it includes are the debugger hooks and breakpoint definitions. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-11powerpc: Create asm/debugfs.h and move powerpc_debugfs_root thereMichael Ellerman
powerpc_debugfs_root is the dentry representing the root of the "powerpc" directory tree in debugfs. Currently it sits in asm/debug.h, a long with some other things that have "debug" in the name, but are otherwise unrelated. Pull it out into a separate header, which also includes linux/debugfs.h, and convert all the users to include debugfs.h instead of debug.h. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-03-31powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset closer to bottom of RAMHari Bathini
Currently, the area to preserve boot memory is reserved at the top of RAM. This leaves fadump vulnerable to memory hot-remove operations. As memory for fadump has to be reserved early in the boot process, fadump can't be registered after a memory hot-remove operation. Though this problem can't be eleminated completely, the impact can be minimized by reserving memory at an offset closer to bottom of the RAM. The offset for fadump memory reservation can be any value greater than fadump boot memory size. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-01-30powerpc/fadump: Fix the race in crash_fadump().Mahesh Salgaonkar
There are chances that multiple CPUs can call crash_fadump() simultaneously and would start duplicating same info to vmcoreinfo ELF note section. This causes makedumpfile to fail during kdump capture. One example is, triggering dumprestart from HMC which sends system reset to all the CPUs at once. makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore read_vmcoreinfo_basic_info: Invalid data in /tmp/vmcoreinfoyjgxlL: CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971 makedumpfile Failed. Running makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore failed (1). makedumpfile -d 31 -l /proc/vmcore read_vmcoreinfo_basic_info: Invalid data in /tmp/vmcoreinfo1mmVdO: CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971CRASHTIME=1475605971 makedumpfile Failed. Running makedumpfile -d 31 -l /proc/vmcore failed (1). Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-07Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - fsnotify updates - ocfs2 updates - all of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (127 commits) console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address mailmap: add Johan Hovold .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390} spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns proc: relax /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns capability requirements meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char proc: faster /proc/*/status ...
2016-10-07powerpc: implement arch_reserved_kernel_pagesSrikar Dronamraju
Currently significant amount of memory is reserved only in kernel booted to capture kernel dump using the fa_dump method. Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialize only certain size memory per node. The certain size takes into account the dentry and inode cache sizes. Currently the cache sizes are calculated based on the total system memory including the reserved memory. However such a kernel when booting the same kernel as fadump kernel will not be able to allocate the required amount of memory to suffice for the dentry and inode caches. This results in crashes like Hence only implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages() for CONFIG_FA_DUMP configurations. The amount reserved will be reduced while calculating the large caches and will avoid crashes like the below on large systems such as 32 TB systems. Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912 (order: 16, 4294967296 bytes) vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 4097114112 of 17179934720 bytes swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x2080020(GFP_ATOMIC) CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6-master+ #3 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable) warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160 __vmalloc_node_range+0x304/0x340 __vmalloc+0x6c/0x90 alloc_large_system_hash+0x1b8/0x2c0 inode_init+0x94/0xe4 vfs_caches_init+0x8c/0x13c start_kernel+0x50c/0x578 start_here_common+0x20/0xa8 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-04powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=nMichael Ellerman
The fadump code calls vmcore_cleanup() which only exists if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y. We don't want to depend on CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE, because it's user selectable, so just wrap the call in an #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-09-13powerpc/fadump: Set core e_flags using kernel's ELF ABI versionDaniel Axtens
Firmware Assisted Dump is a facility to dump kernel core with assistance from firmware. As part of this process the kernel ELF ABI version is stored in the core file. Currently fadump.h defines this to 0 if it is not already defined. This clashes with a define in elf.h which sets it based on the current task - not based on the kernel's ELF ABI version. Use the compiler-provided #define _CALL_ELF which tells us the ELF ABI version of the kernel to set e_flags, this matches what binutils does. Remove the definition in fadump.h, which becomes unused. Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-07-05powerpc/fadump: Fix build error introduced by recent cleanupMichael Ellerman
We spent so much time bike-shedding the printk() we missed that the next line was missing a semi-colon. And it seems none of our defconfigs turn on CONFIG_FA_DUMP. Fixes: 4a03749f140c ("powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-28powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up messageColin Ian King
Fix trivial spelling mistake "rgistration". Also use pr_err() instead of printk() and unsplit the string to keep it all on one line. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> [mpe: Keep rc on the same line, splitting it doesn't help] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-01-20powerpc/fadump: rename cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_headerRasmus Villemoes
The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask. But they are also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions set_cpu_xyz. There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless indirection. It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a problem. In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see 4/6). Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask becomes a macro later in the series. The next four patches eliminate the cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as they used to have. After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one or two instructions. For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes. We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount). Mostly because, when iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate address into %rdi before each call. [1] See Rusty's kind explanation http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for some historic context. This patch (of 6): As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-30powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handlingHari Bathini
Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel. Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore. # crash vmlinux vmcore GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6 This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: vmlinux DUMPFILE: vmcore CPUS: 16 DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 UPTIME: 00:03:28 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41 TASKS: 268 NODENAME: linux-dhr2 RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014 MACHINE: ppc64le (4116 Mhz) MEMORY: 40 GB PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details) PID: 6223 COMMAND: "bash" TASK: c0000009661b2500 [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000] CPU: 2 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC) Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-06-10Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window. It got a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer ack in it. Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack. There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I still want to sort through and test. The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel with our new v2 ABI. We previously supported v2 userspace but the kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack. This is now sorted mostly thanks to Anton and Rusty. We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for 64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper. This was made harder by the fact that traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it. This meant more churn that just endian fixes. This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes. There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!). Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on P8 by Michael. This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of 4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread). And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..." [ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer. Google knows. ] * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits) powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports powerpc: Add cpu family documentation powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks ...
2014-05-28arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checksRickard Strandqvist
Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks. There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference. Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-04-30of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdtRob Herring
Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return value const and the property length ptr type an int. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Chivers <schivers@csc.com>
2014-04-28powerpc/prom: Stop scanning dev-tree for fdump earlyGavin Shan
Function early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump() is called to scan the device tree for fdump properties under node "rtas". Any one of them is invalid, we can stop scanning the device tree early by returning "1". It would save a bit time during boot. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-04-29mm/ppc: use common help functions to free reserved pagesJiang Liu
Use common help functions to free reserved pages. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-07powerpc: Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned long longSuzuki Poulose
There are some device-tree nodes, whose values are of type phys_addr_t. The phys_addr_t is variable sized based on the CONFIG_PHSY_T_64BIT. Change these to a fixed unsigned long long for consistency. This patch does the change only for memory_limit. The following is a list of such variables which need the change: 1) kernel_end, crashk_size - in arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c 2) (struct resource *)crashk_res.start - We could export a local static variable from machine_kexec.c. Changing the above values might break the kexec-tools. So, I will fix kexec-tools first to handle the different sized values and then change the above. Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-02powerpc: Fix fallout from system.h split upStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-02-23fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.Mahesh Salgaonkar
This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump. Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'. Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production configuration. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-02-23fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfoMahesh Salgaonkar
Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system crash. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-02-23fadump: Convert firmware-assisted cpu state dump data into elf notes.Mahesh Salgaonkar
When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read during second kernel boot. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>