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[2/8] Add version and timestamp to oops header

Message ID 20130410072112.20150.10281.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420 (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit b1f70e1f72179f7afe02f4131ed15da406f93e0d
Delegated to: Michael Ellerman
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Aruna Balakrishnaiah April 10, 2013, 7:21 a.m. UTC
Introduce version and timestamp information in the oops header.
oops_log_info (oops header) holds version (to distinguish between old
and new format oops header), length of the oops text
(compressed or uncompressed) and timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Comments

Michael Ellerman April 15, 2013, 7:31 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:51:12PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> Introduce version and timestamp information in the oops header.
> oops_log_info (oops header) holds version (to distinguish between old
> and new format oops header), length of the oops text
> (compressed or uncompressed) and timestamp.

This needs a much more detailed explanation.

I think what you're doing is you're overlaying the new information so
that the version field in oops_log_info sits in the same location as the
length field in the old format. And then you're defining the version to
be a value that is an illegal length.

So existing tools will refuse to dump new style partitions,
because they'll think the length is too large. You've tested that?

Updated tools will know about both formats, so will be able to handle
either old or new style partitions.

Is that correct?

And we're adding the timestamp just because we can and it'd be nice to
have?

cheers
Aruna Balakrishnaiah April 15, 2013, 7:51 a.m. UTC | #2
On Monday 15 April 2013 01:01 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:51:12PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
>> Introduce version and timestamp information in the oops header.
>> oops_log_info (oops header) holds version (to distinguish between old
>> and new format oops header), length of the oops text
>> (compressed or uncompressed) and timestamp.
> This needs a much more detailed explanation.
>
> I think what you're doing is you're overlaying the new information so
> that the version field in oops_log_info sits in the same location as the
> length field in the old format. And then you're defining the version to
> be a value that is an illegal length.

Thats right.

> So existing tools will refuse to dump new style partitions,
> because they'll think the length is too large. You've tested that?

Yeah, I have tested that.

>
> Updated tools will know about both formats, so will be able to handle
> either old or new style partitions.
>
> Is that correct?

Yeah, thats correct.

>
> And we're adding the timestamp just because we can and it'd be nice to
> have?

Thats right. And also, the main reason behind adding timestamp is
it will be used when we create a pstore file for oops messages.
The pstore file's timestamp will reflect the timestamp in the oops-header
added during the crash.

> cheers
>
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
index e54a8b7..742735a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ 
 /* Max bytes to read/write in one go */
 #define NVRW_CNT 0x20
 
+/*
+ * Set oops header version to distingush between old and new format header.
+ * lnx,oops-log partition max size is 4000, header version > 4000 will
+ * help in identifying new header.
+ */
+#define OOPS_HDR_VERSION 5000
+
 static unsigned int nvram_size;
 static int nvram_fetch, nvram_store;
 static char nvram_buf[NVRW_CNT];	/* assume this is in the first 4GB */
@@ -67,6 +74,12 @@  static const char *pseries_nvram_os_partitions[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 
+struct oops_log_info {
+	u16 version;
+	u16 report_length;
+	u64 timestamp;
+} __attribute__((packed));
+
 static void oops_to_nvram(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 			  enum kmsg_dump_reason reason);
 
@@ -83,28 +96,28 @@  static unsigned long last_unread_rtas_event;	/* timestamp */
 
  * big_oops_buf[] holds the uncompressed text we're capturing.
  *
- * oops_buf[] holds the compressed text, preceded by a prefix.
- * The prefix is just a u16 holding the length of the compressed* text.
- * (*Or uncompressed, if compression fails.)  oops_buf[] gets written
- * to NVRAM.
+ * oops_buf[] holds the compressed text, preceded by a oops header.
+ * oops header has u16 holding the version of oops header (to differentiate
+ * between old and new format header) followed by u16 holding the length of
+ * the compressed* text (*Or uncompressed, if compression fails.) and u64
+ * holding the timestamp. oops_buf[] gets written to NVRAM.
  *
- * oops_len points to the prefix.  oops_data points to the compressed text.
+ * oops_log_info points to the header. oops_data points to the compressed text.
  *
  * +- oops_buf
- * |		+- oops_data
- * v		v
- * +------------+-----------------------------------------------+
- * | length	| text                                          |
- * | (2 bytes)	| (oops_data_sz bytes)                          |
- * +------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+ * |                                   +- oops_data
+ * v                                   v
+ * +-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------+
+ * | version   | length    | timestamp | text                   |
+ * | (2 bytes) | (2 bytes) | (8 bytes) | (oops_data_sz bytes)   |
+ * +-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------+
  * ^
- * +- oops_len
+ * +- oops_log_info
  *
  * We preallocate these buffers during init to avoid kmalloc during oops/panic.
  */
 static size_t big_oops_buf_sz;
 static char *big_oops_buf, *oops_buf;
-static u16 *oops_len;
 static char *oops_data;
 static size_t oops_data_sz;
 
@@ -425,9 +438,8 @@  static void __init nvram_init_oops_partition(int rtas_partition_exists)
 						oops_log_partition.name);
 		return;
 	}
-	oops_len = (u16*) oops_buf;
-	oops_data = oops_buf + sizeof(u16);
-	oops_data_sz = oops_log_partition.size - sizeof(u16);
+	oops_data = oops_buf + sizeof(struct oops_log_info);
+	oops_data_sz = oops_log_partition.size - sizeof(struct oops_log_info);
 
 	/*
 	 * Figure compression (preceded by elimination of each line's <n>
@@ -555,6 +567,7 @@  error:
 /* Compress the text from big_oops_buf into oops_buf. */
 static int zip_oops(size_t text_len)
 {
+	struct oops_log_info *oops_hdr = (struct oops_log_info *)oops_buf;
 	int zipped_len = nvram_compress(big_oops_buf, oops_data, text_len,
 								oops_data_sz);
 	if (zipped_len < 0) {
@@ -562,7 +575,9 @@  static int zip_oops(size_t text_len)
 		pr_err("nvram: logging uncompressed oops/panic report\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
-	*oops_len = (u16) zipped_len;
+	oops_hdr->version = OOPS_HDR_VERSION;
+	oops_hdr->report_length = (u16) zipped_len;
+	oops_hdr->timestamp = get_seconds();
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -576,6 +591,7 @@  static int zip_oops(size_t text_len)
 static void oops_to_nvram(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 			  enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
 {
+	struct oops_log_info *oops_hdr = (struct oops_log_info *)oops_buf;
 	static unsigned int oops_count = 0;
 	static bool panicking = false;
 	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
@@ -622,11 +638,14 @@  static void oops_to_nvram(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 		kmsg_dump_get_buffer(dumper, false,
 				     oops_data, oops_data_sz, &text_len);
 		err_type = ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC;
-		*oops_len = (u16) text_len;
+		oops_hdr->version = OOPS_HDR_VERSION;
+		oops_hdr->report_length = (u16) text_len;
+		oops_hdr->timestamp = get_seconds();
 	}
 
 	(void) nvram_write_os_partition(&oops_log_partition, oops_buf,
-		(int) (sizeof(*oops_len) + *oops_len), err_type, ++oops_count);
+		(int) (sizeof(*oops_hdr) + oops_hdr->report_length), err_type,
+		++oops_count);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, flags);
 }