Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] pstore/ram: Add dynamic ramoops region support through commandline

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/9/24 07:31, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> The reserved memory region for ramoops is assumed to be at a fixed
> and known location when read from the devicetree. This may not be
> required for something like Qualcomm's minidump which is interested
> in knowing addresses of ramoops region but it does not put hard
> requirement of address being fixed as most of it's SoC does not

                                                its

> support warm reset and does not use pstorefs at all instead it has
> firmware way of collecting ramoops region if it gets to know the
> address and register it with apss minidump table which is sitting
> in shared memory region in DDR and firmware will have access to
> these table during reset and collects it on crash of SoC.
> 
> So, add the support of reserving ramoops region to be dynamically
> allocated early during boot if it is request through command line
> via 'dyn_ramoops_size=<size>' and fill up reserved resource structure
> and export the structure, so that it can be read by ramoops driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst | 23 +++++++++-
>  fs/pstore/Kconfig                     | 15 ++++++
>  fs/pstore/ram.c                       | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/pstore_ram.h            |  5 ++
>  init/main.c                           |  2 +
>  5 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
> index e9f85142182d..517b00981e99 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
> @@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ memory are implementation defined, and won't work on many ARMs such as omaps.
>  Setting ``mem_type=2`` attempts to treat the memory region as normal memory,
>  which enables full cache on it. This can improve the performance.
>  
> +Ramoops supports its memory to be allocated dynamically during early boot
> +for plaforms that does not have support for warm boot i.e., no assurance

       platforms that do not have


> +of Ram content will be preserved across boot and for these platform

   that RAM content                             and for these platforms

> +giving static Ramoops memory is not necessary as it has separate backend
> +mechanism to retrieve ramoops content on system failure. More about
> +how to enable Dynamic ramoops in ``Setting the parameters`` A.b section.
> +
>  The memory area is divided into ``record_size`` chunks (also rounded down to
>  power of two) and each kmesg dump writes a ``record_size`` chunk of
>  information.
> @@ -59,7 +66,7 @@ Setting the parameters
>  
>  Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in several different manners:
>  
> - A. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
> + A.a  Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
>   as before). For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during
>   boot and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a
>   machine with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell
> @@ -68,6 +75,20 @@ Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in several different manners:
>  
>  	mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1
>  
> + A.b  Ramoops memory can be also be dynamically reserve by Kernel and in such

                                                   reserved

> + scenario ``mem_address`` i.e, Ramoops base address can be anywhere in the RAM

                             i.e.,

> + instead of being fixed and predefined. A separate command line option
> + ``dyn_ramoops_size=<size>`` and kernel config CONFIG_PSTORE_DYNAMIC_RAMOOPS
> + is provided to facilitate Dynamic Ramoops memory reservation during early boot.

    are provided

> + The command line option and the config should only be used in the presence of
> + separate backend which knows how to recover Dynamic Ramoops region otherwise
> + regular ramoops functionality will be impacted.
> + ``mem_size`` should not be used if Dynamic Ramoops support is requested and if
> + both are given ``mem_size`` value is overwritten with ``dyn_ramoops_size`` value
> + i.e, Dynamic Ramoops takes precedence::

    i.e.,

> +
> +	dyn_ramoops_size=2M ramoops.console_size=2097152
> +
>   B. Use Device Tree bindings, as described in
>   ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.yaml``.
>   For example::
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/Kconfig b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> index 3acc38600cd1..2f2bb483fd85 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> @@ -81,6 +81,21 @@ config PSTORE_RAM
>  
>  	  For more information, see Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst.
>  
> +config PSTORE_DYNAMIC_RAMOOPS
> +	bool "Reserve ramoops region dynamically"
> +	select PSTORE_RAM
> +	help
> +	  This enables the dynamic reservation of ramoops region for a special case
> +	  where there is no requirement to access the logs from pstorefs on next boot

	                                                                         boot;

> +	  instead there is separate backend mechanism like minidump present which has
> +	  awareness about the dynamic ramoops region and can recover the logs. This is
> +	  enabled via command line parameter dyn_ramoops_size=<size> and should not be
> +	  used in absence of separate backend which knows how to recover this dynamic
> +	  region.
> +
> +	  Note whenever this config is selected ramoops driver will be build statically

	                                                               built

> +	  into kernel.
> +
>  config PSTORE_ZONE
>  	tristate
>  	depends on PSTORE
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index 88b34fdbf759..795a8300631e 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>  #include <linux/compiler.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_address.h>
> +#include <linux/memblock.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
> @@ -103,6 +104,59 @@ struct ramoops_context {
>  };
>  
>  static struct platform_device *dummy;
> +static struct resource dyn_ramoops_res = {
> +	.name  = "ramoops",
> +	.start = 0,
> +	.end   = 0,
> +	.flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM,
> +	.desc  = IORES_DESC_NONE,
> +};
> +static int dyn_ramoops_size;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE_DYNAMIC_RAMOOPS
> +static int __init parse_dyn_ramoops_size(char *p)
> +{
> +	char *tmp;
> +
> +	dyn_ramoops_size = memparse(p, &tmp);
> +	if (p == tmp) {
> +		pr_err("ramoops: memory size expected\n");
> +		dyn_ramoops_size = 0;
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("dyn_ramoops_size", parse_dyn_ramoops_size);
> +
> +/*
> + * setup_dynamic_ramoops() - reserves memory for dynamic ramoops
> + *
> + * This enable dynamic reserve memory support for ramoops through

           enables

> + * command line.
> + */


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#Randy