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@@ -46,10 +46,9 @@ as follows:
These registered sections of memory are reserved by the first
kernel during early boot.
-- When a system crashes, the Power firmware will save
- the low memory (boot memory of size larger of 5% of system RAM
- or 256MB) of RAM to the previous registered region. It will
- also save system registers, and hardware PTE's.
+- When system crashes, the Power firmware will copy the registered
+ low memory regions (boot memory) from source to destination area.
+ It will also save hardware PTE's.
NOTE:
The term 'boot memory' means size of the low memory chunk
@@ -61,9 +60,9 @@ as follows:
the default calculated size. Use this option if default
boot memory size is not sufficient for second kernel to
boot successfully. For syntax of crashkernel= parameter,
- refer to Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst. If any offset is
- provided in crashkernel= parameter, it will be ignored
- as FADump uses a predefined offset to reserve memory
+ refer to Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst. If any
+ offset is provided in crashkernel= parameter, it will be
+ ignored as FADump uses a predefined offset to reserve memory
for boot memory dump preservation in case of a crash.
- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the
@@ -71,8 +70,9 @@ as follows:
*not* clear the RAM. It will then launch the bootloader, as
normal.
-- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new
- node (ibm,dump-kernel) in the device tree, indicating that
+- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new node
+ (rtas/ibm,kernel-dump on pSeries or ibm,opal/dump/mpipl-boot
+ on OPAL platform) in the device tree, indicating that
there is crash data available from a previous boot. During
the early boot OS will reserve rest of the memory above
boot memory size effectively booting with restricted memory
@@ -95,8 +95,11 @@ as follows:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem
Please note that the firmware-assisted dump feature
-is only available on Power6 and above systems with recent
-firmware versions.
+is only available on POWER6 and above systems on pSeries
+(PowerVM) platform and POWER9 and above systems with OP940
+or later firmware versions on PowerNV (OPAL) platform.
+Note that, OPAL firmware exports ibm,opal/dump node when
+FADump is supported on PowerNV platform.
Implementation details:
-----------------------
@@ -111,57 +114,76 @@ that are run. If there is dump data, then the
/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem file is created, and the reserved
memory is held.
-If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required
-to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore
-header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot memory
-size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region will
-be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle
-for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state
-and HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur. Since this reserved
-memory area is used only after the system crash, there is no point in
-blocking this significant chunk of memory from production kernel.
-Hence, the implementation uses the Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory
-Allocator (CMA) for memory reservation if CMA is configured for kernel.
-With CMA reservation this memory will be available for applications to
-use it, while kernel is prevented from using it. With this FADump will
-still be able to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user
-space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region::
+If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required to
+hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump, FADump header and
+elfcore header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot
+memory size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region
+will be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle
+for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state and
+HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur.
+
+Since this reserved memory area is used only after the system crash,
+there is no point in blocking this significant chunk of memory from
+production kernel. Hence, the implementation uses the Linux kernel's
+Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) for memory reservation if CMA is
+configured for kernel. With CMA reservation this memory will be
+available for applications to use it, while kernel is prevented from
+using it. With this FADump will still be able to capture all of the
+kernel memory and most of the user space memory except the user pages
+that were present in CMA region::
o Memory Reservation during first kernel
- Low memory Top of memory
- 0 boot memory size |<--Reserved dump area --->| |
- | | | (Permanent Reservation) | |
- V V | | V
- +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
- | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | |
- +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
- | ^ ^
- | | |
- \ / |
- ----------------------------------- FADump Header
- Boot memory content gets transferred (meta area)
- to reserved area by firmware at the
- time of crash
+ Low memory Top of memory
+ 0 boot memory size |<--- Reserved dump area --->| |
+ | | | Permanent Reservation | |
+ V V | | V
+ +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+
+ | | |///|////| DUMP | HDR | ELF |////| |
+ +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+
+ | ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | | | | |
+ \ CPU HPTE / | |
+ ------------------------------ | |
+ Boot memory content gets transferred | |
+ to reserved area by firmware at the | |
+ time of crash. | |
+ FADump Header |
+ (meta area) |
+ |
+ |
+ Metadata: This area holds a metadata struture whose
+ address is registered with f/w and retrieved in the
+ second kernel after crash, on platforms that support
+ tags (OPAL). Having such structure with info needed
+ to process the crashdump eases dump capture process.
Fig. 1
o Memory Reservation during second kernel after crash
- Low memory Top of memory
- 0 boot memory size |
- | |<----------- Crash preserved area --------------->|
- V V |<-- Reserved dump area -->| V
- +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
- | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |HDR|ELF | |
- +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+--------+---+----+------+
- | |
- V V
- Used by second /proc/vmcore
+ Low memory Top of memory
+ 0 boot memory size |
+ | |<------------ Crash preserved area ------------>|
+ V V |<--- Reserved dump area --->| |
+ +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+
+ | | |///|////| DUMP | HDR | ELF |////| |
+ +-----------+-----/ /---+---+----+-------+-----+-----+----+--+
+ | |
+ V V
+ Used by second /proc/vmcore
kernel to boot
+
+ +---+
+ |///| -> Regions (CPU, HPTE & Metadata) marked like this in the above
+ +---+ figures are not always present. For example, OPAL platform
+ does not have CPU & HPTE regions while Metadata region is
+ not supported on pSeries currently.
+
Fig. 2
+
Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a new file upon
user intervention. The dump data available through /proc/vmcore will be
in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump infrastructure (kdump scripts)