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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:57:17 +0100 Received: from d06av25.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av25.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.61]) by b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x8BEvFTs38666374 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:57:15 GMT Received: from d06av25.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB10911C050; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av25.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id D364B11C05C; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hbathini.in.ibm.com (unknown [9.102.24.71]) by d06av25.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [PATCH v6 34/36] powernv/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore From: Hari Bathini To: linuxppc-dev Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:27:12 +0530 In-Reply-To: <156821308145.5656.2233728784001623843.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> References: <156821308145.5656.2233728784001623843.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19091114-0016-0000-0000-000002AA0F46 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19091114-0017-0000-0000-0000330A9C37 Message-Id: <156821382786.5656.13173494907671241231.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-09-11_08:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1906280000 definitions=main-1909110138 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Mahesh J Salgaonkar , Vasant Hegde , Oliver , Nicholas Piggin , Daniel Axtens Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" With /sys/firmware/opal/core support available on OPAL based machines and an option to the release memory used by kernel in exporting this core file, update FADump documentation with these details. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini --- * No changes in v6. Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst index 08a9b5e..0455a78 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst @@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ 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 /sys/firmware/opal/core 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: ----------------------- @@ -273,6 +283,15 @@ 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 /sys/firmware/opal/core 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.)