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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:37:20 -0000 Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.62]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x1LHbIi629098216 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:37:18 GMT Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512F3AE055; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06B0AE051; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hbathini.in.ibm.com (unknown [9.199.32.125]) by d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [PATCH 16/18] powernv/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore From: Hari Bathini To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Michael Ellerman , Mahesh J Salgaonkar , Vasant Hegde , linuxppc-dev , Stewart Smith Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:07:15 +0530 In-Reply-To: <155077048463.21014.13936958730316555495.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> References: <155077048463.21014.13936958730316555495.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19022117-4275-0000-0000-000003125706 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19022117-4276-0000-0000-000038208C1C Message-Id: <155077063570.21014.1747553021181992718.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-02-21_11:, , 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=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1902210125 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: , Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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 --- Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt index fa35593..6411449 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt @@ -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.)