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Message-ID: <20110831142049.5e8270b9@kryten>
Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:20:49 +1000
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/10] fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.


Hi,

> +static void fadump_show_config(void)
> +{
> +	DBG("Support for firmware-assisted dump (fadump): %s\n",
> +			(fw_dump.fadump_supported ? "present" : "no support"));
> +
> +	if (!fw_dump.fadump_supported)
> +		return;
> +
> +	DBG("Fadump enabled    : %s\n",
> +				(fw_dump.fadump_enabled ? "yes" : "no"));
> +	DBG("Dump Active       : %s\n", (fw_dump.dump_active ? "yes" : "no"));
> +	DBG("Dump section sizes:\n");
> +	DBG("	CPU state data size: %lx\n", fw_dump.cpu_state_data_size);
> +	DBG("	HPTE region size   : %lx\n", fw_dump.hpte_region_size);
> +	DBG("Boot memory size  : %lx\n", fw_dump.boot_memory_size);
> +	DBG("Reserve area start: %lx\n", fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start);
> +	DBG("Reserve area size : %lx\n", fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size);
> +}
> +
> +static void show_fadump_mem_struct(const struct fadump_mem_struct *fdm)
> +{
> +	if (!fdm)
> +		return;
> +
> +	DBG("--------Firmware-assisted dump memory structure---------\n");
> +	DBG("header.dump_format_version        : 0x%08x\n",
> +					fdm->header.dump_format_version);
> +	DBG("header.dump_num_sections          : %d\n",
> +					fdm->header.dump_num_sections);
> +	DBG("header.dump_status_flag           : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->header.dump_status_flag);
> +	DBG("header.offset_first_dump_section  : 0x%x\n",
> +					fdm->header.offset_first_dump_section);
> +
> +	DBG("header.dd_block_size              : %d\n",
> +					fdm->header.dd_block_size);
> +	DBG("header.dd_block_offset            : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->header.dd_block_offset);
> +	DBG("header.dd_num_blocks              : %Lx\n",
> +					fdm->header.dd_num_blocks);
> +	DBG("header.dd_offset_disk_path        : 0x%x\n",
> +					fdm->header.dd_offset_disk_path);
> +
> +	DBG("header.max_time_auto              : %d\n",
> +					fdm->header.max_time_auto);
> +
> +	/* Kernel dump sections */
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.request_flag       : 0x%08x\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.request_flag);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.source_data_type   : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.source_data_type);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.error_flags        : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.error_flags);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.source_address     : 0x%016Lx\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.source_address);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.source_len         : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.source_len);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.bytes_dumped       : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->cpu_state_data.bytes_dumped);
> +	DBG("cpu_state_data.destination_address: 0x%016Lx\n",
> +				fdm->cpu_state_data.destination_address);
> +
> +	DBG("hpte_region.request_flag          : 0x%08x\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.request_flag);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.source_data_type      : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.source_data_type);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.error_flags           : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.error_flags);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.source_address        : 0x%016Lx\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.source_address);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.source_len            : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.source_len);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.bytes_dumped          : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->hpte_region.bytes_dumped);
> +	DBG("hpte_region.destination_address   : 0x%016Lx\n",
> +				fdm->hpte_region.destination_address);
> +
> +	DBG("rmr_region.request_flag           : 0x%08x\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.request_flag);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.source_data_type       : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.source_data_type);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.error_flags            : 0x%04x\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.error_flags);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.source_address         : 0x%016Lx\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.source_address);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.source_len             : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.source_len);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.bytes_dumped           : 0x%Lx\n",
> +					fdm->rmr_region.bytes_dumped);
> +	DBG("rmr_region.destination_address    : 0x%016Lx\n",
> +				fdm->rmr_region.destination_address);
> +
> +	DBG("--------Firmware-assisted dump memory structure---------\n");
> +}
> +

That's an awful lot of debug information. I don't think we need to carry
this around in the kernel once the feature is working.

> +static ssize_t fadump_enabled_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> +					struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> +					char *buf)
> +{
> +	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", fw_dump.fadump_enabled);
> +}
> +

> +static ssize_t fadump_region_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> +					struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> +					char *buf)
> +{
> +	const struct fadump_mem_struct *fdm_ptr;
> +	ssize_t n = 0;
> +
> +	if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> +		return n;
> +
> +	if (fdm_active)
> +		fdm_ptr = fdm_active;
> +	else
> +		fdm_ptr = &fdm;
> +
> +	n += sprintf(buf,
> +			"CPU : [%#016llx-%#016llx] %#llx bytes, "
> +			"Dumped: %#llx\n",
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address +
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.source_len - 1,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.source_len,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.bytes_dumped);
> +	n += sprintf(buf + n,
> +			"HPTE: [%#016llx-%#016llx] %#llx bytes, "
> +			"Dumped: %#llx\n",
> +			fdm_ptr->hpte_region.destination_address,
> +			fdm_ptr->hpte_region.destination_address +
> +			fdm_ptr->hpte_region.source_len - 1,
> +			fdm_ptr->hpte_region.source_len,
> +			fdm_ptr->hpte_region.bytes_dumped);
> +	n += sprintf(buf + n,
> +			"DUMP: [%#016llx-%#016llx] %#llx bytes, "
> +			"Dumped: %#llx\n",
> +			fdm_ptr->rmr_region.destination_address,
> +			fdm_ptr->rmr_region.destination_address +
> +			fdm_ptr->rmr_region.source_len - 1,
> +			fdm_ptr->rmr_region.source_len,
> +			fdm_ptr->rmr_region.bytes_dumped);
> +
> +	if (!fdm_active ||
> +		(fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start ==
> +		fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address))
> +		return n;
> +
> +	/* Dump is active. Show reserved memory region. */
> +	n += sprintf(buf + n,
> +			"    : [%#016llx-%#016llx] %#llx bytes, "
> +			"Dumped: %#llx\n",
> +			(unsigned long long)fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address - 1,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address -
> +			fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start,
> +			fdm_ptr->cpu_state_data.destination_address -
> +			fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start);
> +	return n;
> +}
> +
> +static struct kobj_attribute fadump_attr = __ATTR(fadump_enabled,
> +						0444, fadump_enabled_show,
> +						NULL);
> +static struct kobj_attribute fadump_region_attr = __ATTR(fadump_region,
> +						0444, fadump_region_show, NULL);
> +
> +static int fadump_init_sysfs(void)
> +{
> +	int rc = 0;
> +
> +	rc = sysfs_create_file(kernel_kobj, &fadump_attr.attr);
> +	if (rc)
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "fadump: unable to create sysfs file"
> +			" (%d)\n", rc);
> +
> +	rc = sysfs_create_file(kernel_kobj, &fadump_region_attr.attr);
> +	if (rc)
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "fadump: unable to create sysfs file"
> +			" (%d)\n", rc);
> +	return rc;
> +}
> +subsys_initcall(fadump_init_sysfs);

Do we need to dump this all out via sysfs? Will tools depend on this,
or is it just for debug? It might be better to place in debugfs.

Anton
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