@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ capture kernel boot to process this crash data. Kernel config
option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP has to be enabled on such kernel
to ensure that crash data is preserved to process later.
+-- On OPAL based machines (PowerNV), if the kernel is build with
+ CONFIG_OPAL_CORE=y, OPAL memory at the time of crash is also
+ exported as /proc/opalcore file. This procfs file is helpful
+ in debugging OPAL crashes with GDB. The kernel memory used
+ for exporting this procfs file can be released by echo'ing
+ '1' to /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore node.
+
+ e.g.
+ # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
Implementation details:
----------------------
@@ -260,6 +270,15 @@ Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs:
enhanced to use this interface to release the memory reserved for
dump and continue without 2nd reboot.
+ /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
+ This file is available only on OPAL based machines when FADump is
+ active during capture kernel. This is used to release the memory
+ used by the kernel to export /proc/opalcore file. To release this
+ memory, echo '1' to it:
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
+
Here is the list of files under powerpc debugfs:
(Assuming debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug directory.)
With /proc/opalcore support available on OPAL based machines and an option to release memory used by kernel in exporting /proc/opalcore, update FADump documentation with these details. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> --- Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)