linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related support

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:45:28 -0700
From:   Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        "Alexander Shishkin" <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@...cinc.com>, <corbet@....net>,
        <agross@...nel.org>, <andersson@...nel.org>,
        <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        <conor+dt@...nel.org>, <keescook@...omium.org>,
        <tony.luck@...el.com>, <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        <catalin.marinas@....com>, <will@...nel.org>,
        <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related
 support

On 7/5/2023 10:29 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
> On 7/4/2023 2:27 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 1:12 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
>>> like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
>>> mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
>>> $soc-vendor hypervisors.)
>>
>> I agree with Rob's stance.
>>
>> I think it would be useful to get input from the hwtracing developers
>> (Alexander and Mathieu) who faced this "necessarily different" issue
>> with all the hwtrace mechanisms and found a way out of it. I suspect
>> they can have an idea of how this should be abstracted.
> 
> Any mailing list you suggest we expand to so that we get inputs from the 
> hwtracing developers and maintainers or just look into the MAINTAINERS 
> file and start an email thread?
> 
> We are fine to submit the abstract for the LPC in next two weeks, but 
> prefer to have lot of good discussion before it on the mailing list, so 
> that we have code to talk about in LPC.

We have submitted abstract at LPC MC. Let's continue the discussion here 
though.

Mukesh, do you want to expand the lists as necessary to see if other 
soc-vendors are having any inputs here? May be add Exynos or MTK kernel 
mailing lists + linux-kernel? I don't know if anyone will respond or 
not, but let's try.

---Trilok Soni