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[v2] p8chip: Enable SRESET for P8

Message ID 20190208083158.zfyy45lrdhco4bpn@gmail.com
State Superseded, archived
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Series [v2] p8chip: Enable SRESET for P8 | expand

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Commit Message

Artem Senichev Feb. 8, 2019, 8:31 a.m. UTC
Add possibility to use NMI SRESET signal to initiate memory dumping
with kdump.
Despite broken implementation of SRESET handler in OPAL it's possible to use
this signal in case of crash of the host OS.
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openpower-firmware/2018-April/000220.html

Signed-off-by: Artem Senichev <artemsen@gmail.com>
---
 libpdbg/p8chip.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Nicholas Piggin Feb. 19, 2019, 4:23 a.m. UTC | #1
Artem Senichev's on February 8, 2019 6:31 pm:
> Add possibility to use NMI SRESET signal to initiate memory dumping
> with kdump.
> Despite broken implementation of SRESET handler in OPAL it's possible to use
> this signal in case of crash of the host OS.
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openpower-firmware/2018-April/000220.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artem Senichev <artemsen@gmail.com>

Seems fine to me, if it's useful then I think it should be merged.

Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

> ---
>  libpdbg/p8chip.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libpdbg/p8chip.c b/libpdbg/p8chip.c
> index 914c335..6ddec3e 100644
> --- a/libpdbg/p8chip.c
> +++ b/libpdbg/p8chip.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #define RAS_STATUS_TIMEOUT	100
>  
>  #define DIRECT_CONTROLS_REG    		0x0
> +#define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_SRESET	PPC_BIT(60)
>  #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_STEP		PPC_BIT(61)
>  #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_START 	PPC_BIT(62)
>  #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_STOP 	PPC_BIT(63)
> @@ -339,8 +340,13 @@ static int p8_thread_start(struct thread *thread)
>  
>  static int p8_thread_sreset(struct thread *thread)
>  {
> -	/* Broken on p8 */
> -	return 1;
> +	/* In some cases SRR1 register may end up being incorrect.
> +	 * This means we can not return from the interrupt and continue, but we
> +	 * should be able to go on to take a crash dump and restart the machine. */
> +	PR_WARNING("SRESET handler has limited implementation on POWER8 platforms\n");
> +
> +	CHECK_ERR(pib_write(&thread->target, DIRECT_CONTROLS_REG, DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_SRESET));
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int p8_ram_setup(struct thread *thread)
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
>
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diff --git a/libpdbg/p8chip.c b/libpdbg/p8chip.c
index 914c335..6ddec3e 100644
--- a/libpdbg/p8chip.c
+++ b/libpdbg/p8chip.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ 
 #define RAS_STATUS_TIMEOUT	100
 
 #define DIRECT_CONTROLS_REG    		0x0
+#define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_SRESET	PPC_BIT(60)
 #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_STEP		PPC_BIT(61)
 #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_START 	PPC_BIT(62)
 #define  DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_STOP 	PPC_BIT(63)
@@ -339,8 +340,13 @@  static int p8_thread_start(struct thread *thread)
 
 static int p8_thread_sreset(struct thread *thread)
 {
-	/* Broken on p8 */
-	return 1;
+	/* In some cases SRR1 register may end up being incorrect.
+	 * This means we can not return from the interrupt and continue, but we
+	 * should be able to go on to take a crash dump and restart the machine. */
+	PR_WARNING("SRESET handler has limited implementation on POWER8 platforms\n");
+
+	CHECK_ERR(pib_write(&thread->target, DIRECT_CONTROLS_REG, DIRECT_CONTROL_SP_SRESET));
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int p8_ram_setup(struct thread *thread)