powerpc/fadump: Improve fadump documentation
The figures depicting FADump's (Firmware-Assisted Dump) memory layout are missing some finer details like different memory regions and what they represent. Improve the documentation by updating those details. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821322070.5656.8194734198500730487.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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@ -76,8 +76,9 @@ as follows:
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there is crash data available from a previous boot. During
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the early boot OS will reserve rest of the memory above
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boot memory size effectively booting with restricted memory
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size. This will make sure that the second kernel will not
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touch any of the dump memory area.
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size. This will make sure that this kernel (also, referred
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to as second kernel or capture kernel) will not touch any
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of the dump memory area.
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- User-space tools will read /proc/vmcore to obtain the contents
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of memory, which holds the previous crashed kernel dump in ELF
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@ -128,42 +129,46 @@ space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region::
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o Memory Reservation during first kernel
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Low memory Top of memory
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0 boot memory size |
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| | |<--Reserved dump area -->| |
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V V | Permanent Reservation | V
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
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| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | |
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
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| ^
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\ /
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-------------------------------------------
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Boot memory content gets transferred to
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reserved area by firmware at the time of
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crash
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Low memory Top of memory
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0 boot memory size |<--Reserved dump area --->| |
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| | | (Permanent Reservation) | |
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V V | | V
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
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| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | |
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
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| ^ ^
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| | |
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\ / |
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----------------------------------- FADump Header
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Boot memory content gets transferred (meta area)
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to reserved area by firmware at the
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time of crash
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Fig. 1
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o Memory Reservation during second kernel after crash
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Low memory Top of memory
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0 boot memory size |
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| |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->|
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V V V
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
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| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | |
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
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Low memory Top of memory
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0 boot memory size |
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| |<----------- Crash preserved area --------------->|
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V V |<-- Reserved dump area -->| V
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
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| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | |
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+-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
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V V
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Used by second /proc/vmcore
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kernel to boot
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Fig. 2
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Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a
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a new file upon user intervention. The dump data available through
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/proc/vmcore will be in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump
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infrastructure (kdump scripts) to save the dump works fine with
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minor modifications.
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Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a new file upon
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user intervention. The dump data available through /proc/vmcore will be
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in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump infrastructure (kdump scripts)
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to save the dump works fine with minor modifications. KDump scripts on
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major Distro releases have already been modified to work seemlessly (no
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user intervention in saving the dump) when FADump is used, instead of
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KDump, as dump mechanism.
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The tools to examine the dump will be same as the ones
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used for kdump.
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