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To support Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO), we need to check
for failure from some of the tce hcalls.
These changes for the pseries platform affect the powerpc architecture;
patches for the other affected platforms are included in this patch.
pSeries platform IOMMU code changes:
* platform TCE functions must handle H_NOT_ENOUGH_RESOURCES errors and
return an error.
Architecture IOMMU code changes:
* Calls to ppc_md.tce_build need to check return values and return
DMA_MAPPING_ERROR for transient errors.
Architecture changes:
* struct machdep_calls for tce_build*_pSeriesLP functions need to change
to indicate failure.
* all other platforms will need updates to iommu functions to match the new
calling semantics; they will return 0 on success. The other platforms
default configs have been built, but no further testing was performed.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Adds a collaborative memory manager, which acts as a simple balloon driver
for System p machines that support cooperative memory overcommitment
(CMO).
Adds a platform configuration option for CMO called PPC_SMLPAR.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Newer versions of firmware support page states, which are used by the
collaborative memory manager (future patch) to "loan" pages to the
hypervisor for use by other partitions.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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For Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO), set the FW_FEATURE_CMO
flag in powerpc_firmware_features from the rtas ibm,get-system-parameters
table prior to calling iommu_init_early_pSeries.
With this, any CMO specific functionality can be controlled by checking:
firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_CMO)
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch changes the EEH_MAX_FAILS action from panic to printing an
error message. Panicking under under this condition is too harsh.
Although performance will be affected and the device may not recover,
the system is still running, which at the very least should allow for a
more graceful shutdown. The patch also removes the msleep() within a
spinlock, which can lead to a deadlock and is not recommended.
Signed-off-by: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Update iommu_alloc() to take the struct dma_attrs and pass them on to
tce_build(). This change propagates down to the tce_build functions of
all the platforms.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Choosing PCI or not at config time is allowed on some
platforms via an if expression in arch/powerpc/Kconfig.
To add a new platform with PCI support selectable at
config time, you must change the if expression. This
patch makes this easier by changing:
bool "PCI support" if <long expression>
to
bool "PCI support" if PPC_PCI_CHOICE
and adding select PPC_PCI_CHOICE to all the config nodes that
were previously in the PCI if expression.
Platforms with unconditional PCI support continue to
just select PCI in their config nodes.
Signed-off-by: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Manual merge of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c
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It is okay for both _PAGE_GUARDED and _PAGE_COHERENT (G and M) to be set
in the same pte. In fact, even if that were not the case, there doesn't
seem to be any place where G is set without also setting I (_PAGE_NO_CACHE),
so the test for I is sufficient as a condition to clear _PAGE_COHERENT
when filling the hash table.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The following patch restores the PERR and SERR bits in the PCI
command register during an EEH device recovery. We have found
at least one case (an Agilent test card) where the PERR/SERR
bits are set to 1 by firmware at boot time, but are not restored
to 1 during EEH recovery. The patch fixes the Agilent card
problem. It has been tested on several other EEH-enabled cards
with no regressions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The current low level hash code on LPAR configurations clears
_PAGE_COHERENT (M) when either _PAGE_GUARDED (G) or _PAGE_NO_CACHE (I)
is set. This conflicts with _PAGE_SAO which has M, I and W bits sets at
once (normally invalid combo) to indicate the new SAO attribute.
This changes the code to allow that case.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This updates the device tree manipulation routines so that memory
add/remove of lmbs represented under the
ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node of the device tree invokes the
hotplug notifier chain.
This change is needed because of the change in the way memory is
represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node. All lmbs
are described in the ibm,dynamic-memory property instead of having a
separate node for each lmb as in previous device tree layouts. This
requires the update_node() routine to check for updates to the
ibm,dynamic-memory property and invoke the hotplug notifier chain.
This also updates the pseries hotplug notifier to be able to gather information
for lmbs represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node and
have the lmbs added/removed.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Use the base address of the lmb to derive the starting page frame number
instead of trying to extract it from the drc index of the lmb. The drc
index should not be used for this as it will, and did, break.
Until this point, systems that have had memory represented in the device
tree with a node for each lmb the drc index would (luckily) closely
track the base address of the lmb. For example a lmb with a drc index
of 8000000a would have a base address of a0000000. This correlation
allowed the current code to derive the starting page frame number from
the drc inddex
Device tree layouts where lmbs are represented under the
ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node in the ibm,dynamic-memory
property do not have this correlation between the drc index and base
address of the lmb.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Allow the phandle passed to the /proc/ppc64/ofdt file to be specified
in formats other than decimal. This allows us to easily specify phandle
values in hex that would otherwise appear as negative integers.
This is an issue on systems where the value of
/proc/device-tree/ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory.ibm,phandle is
fffffff9. Having to pass this to the ofdt file as a string results in
a large negative number, and simple_strtoul() does not handle negative
numbers.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The pseries_kexec_setup function overwrites some ppc_md
pointers, so make sure it only gets called when running on
the right architecture.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This converts ppc to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single().
ppc loses the timeout functionality of smp_call_function_mask() with
this change, as the generic code does not provide that.
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Fix this:
/usr/src/devel/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c: In function 'print_device_node_tree':
/usr/src/devel/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c:55: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
also make that function look like it's part of Linux.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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of_node_put is needed before discarding a value received from
of_find_node_by_type, eg in error handling code.
The semantic patch that makes the change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@
struct device_node *n;
struct device_node *n1;
struct device_node *n2;
statement S;
identifier f1,f2;
expression E1,E2;
constant C;
@@
n = of_find_node_by_type(...)
...
if (!n) S
... when != of_node_put(n)
when != n1 = f1(n,...)
when != E1 = n
when any
when strict
(
+ of_node_put(n);
return -C;
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of_node_put(n);
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n2 = f2(n,...)
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E2 = n
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return ...;
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Don't return void in pseries/iommu.c
Make mce_data_buf static in pseries/ras.c
Make things static in pseries/rtasd.c
Make things static in pseries/setup.c
vtermno may as well be static in platforms/pseries/lpar.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The declaration for fw_feature_init() is in pseries.h and
implemented in firmware.c, so the latter should include the
former.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Simply replace proc_create and further data assigned with proc_create_data.
No need to check for data!=NULL after that.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[RAPIDIO] Change RapidIO doorbell source and target ID field to 16-bit
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO connection info print out and re-training for broken connections
[RAPIDIO] Add serial RapidIO controller support, which includes MPC8548, MPC8641
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node probing into MPC86xx_HPCN board id table
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node into MPC8641HPCN dts file
[RAPIDIO] Auto-probe the RapidIO system size
[RAPIDIO] Add OF-tree support to RapidIO controller driver
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO multi mport support
[RAPIDIO] Move include/asm-ppc/rio.h to asm-powerpc
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO option to kernel configuration
[RAPIDIO] Change RIO function mpc85xx_ to fsl_
[POWERPC] Provide walk_memory_resource() for powerpc
[POWERPC] Update lmb data structures for hotplug memory add/remove
[POWERPC] Hotplug memory remove notifications for powerpc
[POWERPC] windfarm: Add PowerMac 12,1 support
[POWERPC] Fix building of pmac32 when CONFIG_NVRAM=m
[POWERPC] Add IRQSTACKS support on ppc32
[POWERPC] Use __always_inline for xchg* and cmpxchg*
[POWERPC] Add fast little-endian switch system call
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Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.
Add correct ->owner to proc_fops to fix reading/module unloading race.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The powerpc kernel maintains information about logical memory blocks
in the lmb.memory structure, which is initialized and updated at boot
time, but not when memory is added or removed while the kernel is
running.
This adds a hotplug memory notifier which updates lmb.memory when
memory is added or removed. This information is useful for eHEA
driver to find out the memory layout and holes.
NOTE: No special locking is needed for lmb_add() and lmb_remove().
Calls to these are serialized by caller. (pSeries_reconfig_chain).
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Hotplug memory remove notifier for 64-bit powerpc. This gets invoked
by writing to /proc/ppc64/ofdt the string "remove_node " followed by
the firmware device tree pathname of the node that needs to be removed.
In response, this adjusts the sections and removes sysfs entries by
calling __remove_pages(). Then it calls arch-specific code to get rid
of the hardware MMU mappings for the section of memory.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Add a DEBUG config setting which turns on all (most) of the debugging
under platforms/pseries.
To have this take effect we need to remove all the #undef DEBUG's, in
various files. We leave the #undef DEBUG in platforms/pseries/lpar.c,
as this enables debugging printks from the low-level hash table routines,
and tends to make your system unusable. If you want those enabled you
still have to turn them on by hand.
Also some of the RAS code has a DEBUG block which causes a functional
change, so I've keyed this off a different (non-existant) debug #define.
This is only enabled if you have PPC_EARLY_DEBUG enabled also.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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In pseries/lpar.c, fix some printf specifier mismatches, and add
a newline to one printk.
In pseries/rtasd.c add "rtasd" to some messages to make it clear
where they're coming from.
In pseries/scanlog.c remove the hand-rolled runtime debugging support
in there. This file has been largely unchanged for eons, if we need to
debug it in future we can recompile.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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On pseries LPAR we can call the udbg routines, and the udbg console very
early. So mark the udbg console as safe to call early in boot, and register
the udbg console as soon as the udbg routines are hooked up.
This allows platforms/pseries code to use printk() and pr_debug() rather
than needing to call udbg_printf() directly for early debugging. This is
nice because a) it's standard, b) it goes via the printk buffer, and c)
you can get printk time stamps.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits)
PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER
PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered
PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno()
PCI: clean up resource alignment management
PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check
PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk
PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs
PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
PCI: simplify quirk debug output
PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak
PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources()
...
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This lets us check if the device is really added to the driver core or
not, which is what we need when walking some of the bus lists. The flag
is there in anticipation of getting rid of the other PCI device list,
which is what we used to check in this situation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The xics code currently has a direct and lpar variant of
xics_host_map, the only difference being which irq_chip they use. If
we remember which irq_chip we're using we can combine these two
routines. That also allows us to have a single irq_host_ops instead
of two.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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pseries_mpic_init_IRQ() implements the same logic as the xics code did to
find the i8259 cascade irq. Now that we've pulled that logic out into
pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() we can use it in the mpic code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
Remove the xics references from xics_setup_8259_cascade(), and merge the
good bits from the almost identical logic in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The code in xics.c to setup the i8259 cascaded irq handler is not really
xics specific, so move it into setup.c - we will clean this up further in
a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There is logic in platforms/peries/lpars.c which checks if the user has
specified a console on the command line, and refrains from adding a
preferred console entry for the hvc/hvsi console if they have.
This trips up if you use "netconsole=foo" on the command line, and has
the result that you get _only_ the netconsole, because the hvc device is
never added as a preferred console. Worse still if you get the netconsole
configuration wrong somehow, you end up with no console at all.
As it turns out we don't need to worry about checking the command line.
If the user has specified "console=foo", then foo will be set as the
preferred console when the command line is parsed in start_kernel(), much
later than the pseries code, and so the latter setting will take effect.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Move the prototype for find_udbg_vterm() into pseries.h, removing
it from setup.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This changes the way we calculate how much space to reserve for the
pHyp dump. Currently we reserve 256MB only. With this change, the
code first checks to see if an amount has been specified on the boot
command line with the "phyp_dump_reserve_size" option, and if so, uses
that much.
Otherwise it computes 5% of total ram and rounds it down to a multiple
of 256MB, and uses the larger of that or 256MB.
This is for large systems with a lot of memory (10GB or more). The
aim is to have more space available for the kernel on reboot on
machines with more resources. Although the dump will be collected
pretty fast and the memory released really early on allowing the
machine to have the full memory available, this alleviates any issues
that can be caused by having way too little memory on very very large
systems during those few minutes.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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A couple of places are duplicating the function of
of_device_is_available; convert them to use it.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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scanlog_init() could use some love.
* properly return -ENODEV if this system doesn't support scan-log-dump
* don't printk if scan-log-dump not present; only older systems have it
* convert from create_proc_entry() to preferred proc_create()
* allocate zeroed data buffer
* fix potential memory leak of ent->data on failed create_proc_entry()
* simplify control flow
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This adds /sys/kernel/phyp_dump_active so that kdump init scripts may
look for it and take appropriate action if this file is found. This
file is only created when phyp_dump has been registered.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This adds a kernel command line option "phyp_dump", which takes a 0/1
value for disabling/ enabling phyp_dump at boot time. Kdump can use
this on cmdline (phyp_dump=0) to disable phyp-dump during boot when
enabling itself. This will ensure only one dumping mechanism is active
at any given time.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This tracks the size freed. For now it does a simple rudimentary
calculation of the ranges freed. The idea is to keep it simple at the
external shell script level and send in large chunks for now.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This adds routines to
a. invalidate dump
b. calculate region that is reserved and needs to be freed. This is
exported through sysfs interface.
Unregister has been removed for now as it wasn't being used.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Provide some basic debugging support.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Set up the actual dump header, register it with the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Check to see if there actually is data from a previously
crashed kernel waiting. If so, allow user-space tools to
grab the data (by reading /proc/kcore). When user-space
finishes dumping a section, it must release that memory
by writing to sysfs. For example,
echo "0x40000000 0x10000000" > /sys/kernel/release_region
will release 256MB starting at the 1GB. The released memory
becomes free for general use.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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