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authorRahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>2018-05-02 12:47:17 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-05-14 20:46:04 +0300
commit2724273e8fd00b512596a77ee063f49b25f36507 (patch)
treed814285445675db025d5b4f3cf9eaf088466eefd /fs/proc/Kconfig
parent289e1f4e9e4a09c73a1c0152bb93855ea351ccda (diff)
downloadlinux-2724273e8fd00b512596a77ee063f49b25f36507.tar.xz
vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel
The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows: 1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for firmware/hardware log collection. 2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback function. 3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer and returns control back to vmcore module. Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size so that it can be mmaped. Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device dump. Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>. Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 1ade1206bb89..0eaeb41453f5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -43,6 +43,21 @@ config PROC_VMCORE
help
Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
+config PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
+ bool "Device Hardware/Firmware Log Collection"
+ depends on PROC_VMCORE
+ default n
+ help
+ After kernel panic, device drivers can collect the device
+ specific snapshot of their hardware or firmware before the
+ underlying devices are initialized in crash recovery kernel.
+ Note that the device driver must be present in the crash
+ recovery kernel's initramfs to collect its underlying device
+ snapshot.
+
+ If you say Y here, the collected device dumps will be added
+ as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore.
+
config PROC_SYSCTL
bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EXPERT
depends on PROC_FS