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On 9/10/2023 1:46 AM, Mukesh Ojha wrote: > Hi All, > > This is to continuation from the conversation happened at v4 > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/632c5b97-4a91-c3e8-1e6c-33d6c4f6454f@quicinc.com/ > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/695133e6-105f-de2a-5559-555cea0a0462@quicinc.com/ > > We have put abstract on LPC on this topic as well as initiated a mail thread > with other SoC vendors but did not get much traction on it. > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0199db00-1b1d-0c63-58ff-03efae02cb21@quicinc.com/ > > We explored most of possiblity present in kernel to address this issue[1] but > solution like kdump/fadump does not seems safe/secure/performant from our > perspective. > > Hence, with this series we tried to make the minidump kernel driver, simple > and tied with pstore frontends, so that it collects the present available > frontends data like dmesg, ftrace, pmsg, ftrace., Also, we will be working > towards enhancing generic pstore to capture more debug data which will be > helpful for first hand of debugging that can benefit both other pstore users > as well as us as minidump users. > > One of the proposal made here, > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683561060-2197-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Looking forward for your comments. > > Thanks, > Mukesh > > [1] > Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined data > for first level of debugging on end user devices running on Qualcomm SoCs. > It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC) or subsystem part of > SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and software bugs. Hence, the > ability to collect accurate data is only a best-effort. The data collected > could be invalid or corrupted, data collection itself could fail, and so on. > > Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating > full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's > however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump > mechanism provides the means for selecting which snippets should be > included in the ramdump. > > The core of SMEM based minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot > firmware code. It initializes shared memory (SMEM), which is a part of > DDR and allocates a small section of SMEM to minidump table i.e also > called global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) > has their own table of segments to be included in the minidump and all > get their reference from G-ToC. Each segment/region has some details > like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it could be anywhere > scattered in the DDR. > > Existing upstream Qualcomm remoteproc driver[1] already supports SMEM > based minidump feature for remoteproc instances like ADSP, MODEM, ... > where predefined selective segments of subsystem region can be dumped > as part of coredump collection which generates smaller size artifacts > compared to complete coredump of subsystem on crash. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c#n142 > > In addition to managing and querying the APSS minidump description, > the Linux driver maintains a ELF header in a segment. This segment > gets updated with section/program header whenever a new entry gets > registered. > > Changes in v5: > - On suggestion from Pavan.k, to have single function call for minidump collection > from remoteproc driver, separated the logic to have separate minidump file called > qcom_rproc_minidump.c and also renamed the function from qcom_minidump() to > qcom_rproc_minidump(); however, dropped his suggestion about rework on lazy deletion > during region unregister in this series, will pursue it in next series. > > - To simplify the minidump driver, removed the complication for frontend and different > backend from Greg suggestion, will pursue this once main driver gets mainlined. > > - Move the dynamic ramoops region allocation from Device tree approach to command line > approch with the introduction command line parsing and memblock reservation during > early boot up; Not added documentation about it yet, will add if it gets positive > response. > > - Exporting linux banner from kernel to make minidump build also as module, however, > minidump is a debug module and should be kernel built to get most debug information > from kernel. > > - Tried to address comments given on dload patch series. > > Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1687955688-20809-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Redesigned the driver and divided the driver into front end and backend (smem) so > that any new backend can be attached easily to avoid code duplication. > - Patch reordering as per the driver and subsystem to easier review of the code. > - Removed minidump specific code from remoteproc to minidump smem based driver. > - Enabled the all the driver as modules. > - Address comments made on documentation and yaml and Device tree file [Krzysztof/Konrad] > - Address comments made qcom_pstore_minidump driver and given its Device tree > same set of properties as ramoops. [Luca/Kees] > - Added patch for MAINTAINER file. > - Include defconfig change as one patch as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. > - Tried to remove the redundant file scope variables from the module as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. > - Addressed comments made on dload mode patch v6 version > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683133352-10046-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Addressed most of the comments by Srini on v2 and refactored the minidump driver. > - Added platform device support > - Unregister region support. > - Added update region for clients. > - Added pending region support. > - Modified the documentation guide accordingly. > - Added qcom_pstore_ramdump client driver which happen to add ramoops platform > device and also registers ramoops region with minidump. > - Added download mode patch series with this minidump series. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1679491817-2498-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Addressed review comment made by [quic_tsoni/bmasney] to add documentation. > - Addressed comments made by [srinivas.kandagatla] > - Dropped pstore 6/6 from the last series, till i get conclusion to get pstore > region in minidump. > - Fixed issue reported by kernel test robot. > > Changes in v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1676978713-7394-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Testing of the patches has been done on sm8450 target after enabling config like > CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM and CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE and once the device boots up. > > echo mini > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameters/download_mode > > Try crashing it via devmem2 0xf11c000(this is known to create xpu violation and > and put the device in download mode) on command prompt. > > Default storage type is set to via USB, so minidump would be downloaded with the > help of x86_64 machine (running PCAT tool) attached to Qualcomm device which has > backed minidump boot firmware support. > > This will make the device go to download mode and collect the minidump on to the > attached x86 machine running the Qualcomm PCAT tool(This comes as part Qualcomm > package manager kit). > > After that we will see a bunch of predefined registered region as binary blobs files > starts with md_* downloaded on the x86 machine on given location in PCAT tool from > the target device, more about this can be found in qualcomm minidump guide patch. > > Mukesh Ojha (17): > docs: qcom: Add qualcomm minidump guide > soc: qcom: Add qcom_rproc_minidump module > remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_pas: Use qcom_rproc_minidump() > remoteproc: qcom: Remove minidump related data from qcom_common.c > init: export linux_banner data variable > soc: qcom: Add Qualcomm APSS minidump kernel driver > soc: qcom: minidump: Add pending region registration > arm64: mm: Add dynamic ramoops region support through command line > pstore/ram: Use dynamic ramoops reserve resource > pstore: Add pstore_region_defined() helper and export it > qcom_minidump: Register ramoops region with minidump > MAINTAINERS: Add entry for minidump related files Based on last discussion[1], I posted the V5 of the below three patches[2] separately. I don't mind clubbing these again back to Minidump series as long as three patches can be picked up separately. > firmware: qcom_scm: provide a read-modify-write function > pinctrl: qcom: Use qcom_scm_io_update_field() > firmware: scm: Modify only the download bits in TCSR register [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/d77f5601-2b08-a7c7-1400-7ab68b8add3a@quicinc.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20230720070408.1093698-1-quic_kathirav@quicinc.com/ > firmware: qcom_scm: Refactor code to support multiple download mode > firmware: qcom_scm: Add multiple download mode support > > Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 + > Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 272 +++++++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 10 + > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 94 ++++ > drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 11 - > drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c | 90 +++- > drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 10 +- > drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c | 150 ------ > drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_pas.c | 3 +- > drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig | 24 + > drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile | 3 + > drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.c | 727 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump_internal.h | 74 +++ > drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.c | 88 ++++ > drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.h | 10 + > drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_rproc_minidump.c | 111 +++++ > drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c | 18 + > fs/pstore/platform.c | 15 + > fs/pstore/ram.c | 52 +- > include/linux/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.h | 2 + > include/linux/init.h | 3 + > include/linux/pstore.h | 6 + > include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 2 + > include/linux/soc/qcom/smem.h | 2 + > include/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.h | 56 +++ > init/version-timestamp.c | 3 + > 27 files changed, 1659 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.c > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump_internal.h > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.c > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.h > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_rproc_minidump.c > create mode 100644 include/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.h >
On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 01:46:01AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote: > Hi All, > > This is to continuation from the conversation happened at v4 > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/632c5b97-4a91-c3e8-1e6c-33d6c4f6454f@quicinc.com/ > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/695133e6-105f-de2a-5559-555cea0a0462@quicinc.com/ > > We have put abstract on LPC on this topic as well as initiated a mail thread > with other SoC vendors but did not get much traction on it. > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0199db00-1b1d-0c63-58ff-03efae02cb21@quicinc.com/ > > We explored most of possiblity present in kernel to address this issue[1] but > solution like kdump/fadump does not seems safe/secure/performant from our > perspective. > > Hence, with this series we tried to make the minidump kernel driver, simple > and tied with pstore frontends, so that it collects the present available > frontends data like dmesg, ftrace, pmsg, ftrace., Also, we will be working > towards enhancing generic pstore to capture more debug data which will be > helpful for first hand of debugging that can benefit both other pstore users > as well as us as minidump users. > > One of the proposal made here, > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683561060-2197-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Looking forward for your comments. > > Thanks, > Mukesh > > [1] > Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined data > for first level of debugging on end user devices running on Qualcomm SoCs. > It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC) or subsystem part of > SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and software bugs. Hence, the > ability to collect accurate data is only a best-effort. The data collected > could be invalid or corrupted, data collection itself could fail, and so on. > > Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating > full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's > however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump > mechanism provides the means for selecting which snippets should be > included in the ramdump. > > The core of SMEM based minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot > firmware code. It initializes shared memory (SMEM), which is a part of > DDR and allocates a small section of SMEM to minidump table i.e also > called global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) > has their own table of segments to be included in the minidump and all > get their reference from G-ToC. Each segment/region has some details > like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it could be anywhere > scattered in the DDR. > > Existing upstream Qualcomm remoteproc driver[1] already supports SMEM > based minidump feature for remoteproc instances like ADSP, MODEM, ... > where predefined selective segments of subsystem region can be dumped > as part of coredump collection which generates smaller size artifacts > compared to complete coredump of subsystem on crash. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c#n142 > > In addition to managing and querying the APSS minidump description, > the Linux driver maintains a ELF header in a segment. This segment > gets updated with section/program header whenever a new entry gets > registered. > > Changes in v5: > - On suggestion from Pavan.k, to have single function call for minidump collection > from remoteproc driver, separated the logic to have separate minidump file called > qcom_rproc_minidump.c and also renamed the function from qcom_minidump() to > qcom_rproc_minidump(); however, dropped his suggestion about rework on lazy deletion > during region unregister in this series, will pursue it in next series. > > - To simplify the minidump driver, removed the complication for frontend and different > backend from Greg suggestion, will pursue this once main driver gets mainlined. > > - Move the dynamic ramoops region allocation from Device tree approach to command line > approch with the introduction command line parsing and memblock reservation during > early boot up; Not added documentation about it yet, will add if it gets positive > response. > > - Exporting linux banner from kernel to make minidump build also as module, however, > minidump is a debug module and should be kernel built to get most debug information > from kernel. > > - Tried to address comments given on dload patch series. > > Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1687955688-20809-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Redesigned the driver and divided the driver into front end and backend (smem) so > that any new backend can be attached easily to avoid code duplication. > - Patch reordering as per the driver and subsystem to easier review of the code. > - Removed minidump specific code from remoteproc to minidump smem based driver. > - Enabled the all the driver as modules. > - Address comments made on documentation and yaml and Device tree file [Krzysztof/Konrad] > - Address comments made qcom_pstore_minidump driver and given its Device tree > same set of properties as ramoops. [Luca/Kees] > - Added patch for MAINTAINER file. > - Include defconfig change as one patch as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. > - Tried to remove the redundant file scope variables from the module as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. > - Addressed comments made on dload mode patch v6 version > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683133352-10046-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Addressed most of the comments by Srini on v2 and refactored the minidump driver. > - Added platform device support > - Unregister region support. > - Added update region for clients. > - Added pending region support. > - Modified the documentation guide accordingly. > - Added qcom_pstore_ramdump client driver which happen to add ramoops platform > device and also registers ramoops region with minidump. > - Added download mode patch series with this minidump series. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1679491817-2498-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > - Addressed review comment made by [quic_tsoni/bmasney] to add documentation. > - Addressed comments made by [srinivas.kandagatla] > - Dropped pstore 6/6 from the last series, till i get conclusion to get pstore > region in minidump. > - Fixed issue reported by kernel test robot. > > Changes in v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1676978713-7394-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ > > Testing of the patches has been done on sm8450 target after enabling config like > CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM and CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE and once the device boots up. > > echo mini > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameters/download_mode > > Try crashing it via devmem2 0xf11c000(this is known to create xpu violation and > and put the device in download mode) on command prompt. > > Default storage type is set to via USB, so minidump would be downloaded with the > help of x86_64 machine (running PCAT tool) attached to Qualcomm device which has > backed minidump boot firmware support. > > This will make the device go to download mode and collect the minidump on to the > attached x86 machine running the Qualcomm PCAT tool(This comes as part Qualcomm > package manager kit). > > After that we will see a bunch of predefined registered region as binary blobs files > starts with md_* downloaded on the x86 machine on given location in PCAT tool from > the target device, more about this can be found in qualcomm minidump guide patch. > I tried to apply this series on top of 535a265d7f0dd50 (as suggested by `b4 am -l -g`), but it conflicts on patch [04/17]. Please specify the exact base commit or another series for which this series is based on. Thanks.
On 9/11/2023 2:22 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 01:46:01AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> This is to continuation from the conversation happened at v4 >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/632c5b97-4a91-c3e8-1e6c-33d6c4f6454f@quicinc.com/ >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/695133e6-105f-de2a-5559-555cea0a0462@quicinc.com/ >> >> We have put abstract on LPC on this topic as well as initiated a mail thread >> with other SoC vendors but did not get much traction on it. >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0199db00-1b1d-0c63-58ff-03efae02cb21@quicinc.com/ >> >> We explored most of possiblity present in kernel to address this issue[1] but >> solution like kdump/fadump does not seems safe/secure/performant from our >> perspective. >> >> Hence, with this series we tried to make the minidump kernel driver, simple >> and tied with pstore frontends, so that it collects the present available >> frontends data like dmesg, ftrace, pmsg, ftrace., Also, we will be working >> towards enhancing generic pstore to capture more debug data which will be >> helpful for first hand of debugging that can benefit both other pstore users >> as well as us as minidump users. >> >> One of the proposal made here, >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683561060-2197-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> >> Looking forward for your comments. >> >> Thanks, >> Mukesh >> >> [1] >> Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined data >> for first level of debugging on end user devices running on Qualcomm SoCs. >> It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC) or subsystem part of >> SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and software bugs. Hence, the >> ability to collect accurate data is only a best-effort. The data collected >> could be invalid or corrupted, data collection itself could fail, and so on. >> >> Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating >> full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's >> however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump >> mechanism provides the means for selecting which snippets should be >> included in the ramdump. >> >> The core of SMEM based minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot >> firmware code. It initializes shared memory (SMEM), which is a part of >> DDR and allocates a small section of SMEM to minidump table i.e also >> called global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) >> has their own table of segments to be included in the minidump and all >> get their reference from G-ToC. Each segment/region has some details >> like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it could be anywhere >> scattered in the DDR. >> >> Existing upstream Qualcomm remoteproc driver[1] already supports SMEM >> based minidump feature for remoteproc instances like ADSP, MODEM, ... >> where predefined selective segments of subsystem region can be dumped >> as part of coredump collection which generates smaller size artifacts >> compared to complete coredump of subsystem on crash. >> >> [1] >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c#n142 >> >> In addition to managing and querying the APSS minidump description, >> the Linux driver maintains a ELF header in a segment. This segment >> gets updated with section/program header whenever a new entry gets >> registered. >> >> Changes in v5: >> - On suggestion from Pavan.k, to have single function call for minidump collection >> from remoteproc driver, separated the logic to have separate minidump file called >> qcom_rproc_minidump.c and also renamed the function from qcom_minidump() to >> qcom_rproc_minidump(); however, dropped his suggestion about rework on lazy deletion >> during region unregister in this series, will pursue it in next series. >> >> - To simplify the minidump driver, removed the complication for frontend and different >> backend from Greg suggestion, will pursue this once main driver gets mainlined. >> >> - Move the dynamic ramoops region allocation from Device tree approach to command line >> approch with the introduction command line parsing and memblock reservation during >> early boot up; Not added documentation about it yet, will add if it gets positive >> response. >> >> - Exporting linux banner from kernel to make minidump build also as module, however, >> minidump is a debug module and should be kernel built to get most debug information >> from kernel. >> >> - Tried to address comments given on dload patch series. >> >> Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1687955688-20809-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> - Redesigned the driver and divided the driver into front end and backend (smem) so >> that any new backend can be attached easily to avoid code duplication. >> - Patch reordering as per the driver and subsystem to easier review of the code. >> - Removed minidump specific code from remoteproc to minidump smem based driver. >> - Enabled the all the driver as modules. >> - Address comments made on documentation and yaml and Device tree file [Krzysztof/Konrad] >> - Address comments made qcom_pstore_minidump driver and given its Device tree >> same set of properties as ramoops. [Luca/Kees] >> - Added patch for MAINTAINER file. >> - Include defconfig change as one patch as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. >> - Tried to remove the redundant file scope variables from the module as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. >> - Addressed comments made on dload mode patch v6 version >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> >> Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683133352-10046-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> - Addressed most of the comments by Srini on v2 and refactored the minidump driver. >> - Added platform device support >> - Unregister region support. >> - Added update region for clients. >> - Added pending region support. >> - Modified the documentation guide accordingly. >> - Added qcom_pstore_ramdump client driver which happen to add ramoops platform >> device and also registers ramoops region with minidump. >> - Added download mode patch series with this minidump series. >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> >> Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1679491817-2498-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> - Addressed review comment made by [quic_tsoni/bmasney] to add documentation. >> - Addressed comments made by [srinivas.kandagatla] >> - Dropped pstore 6/6 from the last series, till i get conclusion to get pstore >> region in minidump. >> - Fixed issue reported by kernel test robot. >> >> Changes in v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1676978713-7394-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >> >> Testing of the patches has been done on sm8450 target after enabling config like >> CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM and CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE and once the device boots up. >> >> echo mini > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameters/download_mode >> >> Try crashing it via devmem2 0xf11c000(this is known to create xpu violation and >> and put the device in download mode) on command prompt. >> >> Default storage type is set to via USB, so minidump would be downloaded with the >> help of x86_64 machine (running PCAT tool) attached to Qualcomm device which has >> backed minidump boot firmware support. >> >> This will make the device go to download mode and collect the minidump on to the >> attached x86 machine running the Qualcomm PCAT tool(This comes as part Qualcomm >> package manager kit). >> >> After that we will see a bunch of predefined registered region as binary blobs files >> starts with md_* downloaded on the x86 machine on given location in PCAT tool from >> the target device, more about this can be found in qualcomm minidump guide patch. >> > > I tried to apply this series on top of 535a265d7f0dd50 (as suggested by > `b4 am -l -g`), but it conflicts on patch [04/17]. Please specify the > exact base commit or another series for which this series is based on. Apologies ! I just realized, it was 6.5-rc7, but let me rebase version of the series; Sorry, for all the reviewed done so far, i will definitely take care of them or reply. -Mukesh > > Thanks. >
On 11/09/2023 17:39, Mukesh Ojha wrote: > > > On 9/11/2023 2:22 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 01:46:01AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> This is to continuation from the conversation happened at v4 >>> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/632c5b97-4a91-c3e8-1e6c-33d6c4f6454f@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/695133e6-105f-de2a-5559-555cea0a0462@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> We have put abstract on LPC on this topic as well as initiated a mail thread >>> with other SoC vendors but did not get much traction on it. >>> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0199db00-1b1d-0c63-58ff-03efae02cb21@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> We explored most of possiblity present in kernel to address this issue[1] but >>> solution like kdump/fadump does not seems safe/secure/performant from our >>> perspective. >>> >>> Hence, with this series we tried to make the minidump kernel driver, simple >>> and tied with pstore frontends, so that it collects the present available >>> frontends data like dmesg, ftrace, pmsg, ftrace., Also, we will be working >>> towards enhancing generic pstore to capture more debug data which will be >>> helpful for first hand of debugging that can benefit both other pstore users >>> as well as us as minidump users. >>> >>> One of the proposal made here, >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683561060-2197-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> Looking forward for your comments. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mukesh >>> >>> [1] >>> Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined data >>> for first level of debugging on end user devices running on Qualcomm SoCs. >>> It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC) or subsystem part of >>> SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and software bugs. Hence, the >>> ability to collect accurate data is only a best-effort. The data collected >>> could be invalid or corrupted, data collection itself could fail, and so on. >>> >>> Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating >>> full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's >>> however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump >>> mechanism provides the means for selecting which snippets should be >>> included in the ramdump. >>> >>> The core of SMEM based minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot >>> firmware code. It initializes shared memory (SMEM), which is a part of >>> DDR and allocates a small section of SMEM to minidump table i.e also >>> called global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) >>> has their own table of segments to be included in the minidump and all >>> get their reference from G-ToC. Each segment/region has some details >>> like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it could be anywhere >>> scattered in the DDR. >>> >>> Existing upstream Qualcomm remoteproc driver[1] already supports SMEM >>> based minidump feature for remoteproc instances like ADSP, MODEM, ... >>> where predefined selective segments of subsystem region can be dumped >>> as part of coredump collection which generates smaller size artifacts >>> compared to complete coredump of subsystem on crash. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c#n142 >>> >>> In addition to managing and querying the APSS minidump description, >>> the Linux driver maintains a ELF header in a segment. This segment >>> gets updated with section/program header whenever a new entry gets >>> registered. >>> >>> Changes in v5: >>> - On suggestion from Pavan.k, to have single function call for minidump collection >>> from remoteproc driver, separated the logic to have separate minidump file called >>> qcom_rproc_minidump.c and also renamed the function from qcom_minidump() to >>> qcom_rproc_minidump(); however, dropped his suggestion about rework on lazy deletion >>> during region unregister in this series, will pursue it in next series. >>> >>> - To simplify the minidump driver, removed the complication for frontend and different >>> backend from Greg suggestion, will pursue this once main driver gets mainlined. >>> >>> - Move the dynamic ramoops region allocation from Device tree approach to command line >>> approch with the introduction command line parsing and memblock reservation during >>> early boot up; Not added documentation about it yet, will add if it gets positive >>> response. >>> >>> - Exporting linux banner from kernel to make minidump build also as module, however, >>> minidump is a debug module and should be kernel built to get most debug information >>> from kernel. >>> >>> - Tried to address comments given on dload patch series. >>> >>> Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1687955688-20809-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> - Redesigned the driver and divided the driver into front end and backend (smem) so >>> that any new backend can be attached easily to avoid code duplication. >>> - Patch reordering as per the driver and subsystem to easier review of the code. >>> - Removed minidump specific code from remoteproc to minidump smem based driver. >>> - Enabled the all the driver as modules. >>> - Address comments made on documentation and yaml and Device tree file [Krzysztof/Konrad] >>> - Address comments made qcom_pstore_minidump driver and given its Device tree >>> same set of properties as ramoops. [Luca/Kees] >>> - Added patch for MAINTAINER file. >>> - Include defconfig change as one patch as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. >>> - Tried to remove the redundant file scope variables from the module as per [Krzysztof] suggestion. >>> - Addressed comments made on dload mode patch v6 version >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1683133352-10046-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> - Addressed most of the comments by Srini on v2 and refactored the minidump driver. >>> - Added platform device support >>> - Unregister region support. >>> - Added update region for clients. >>> - Added pending region support. >>> - Modified the documentation guide accordingly. >>> - Added qcom_pstore_ramdump client driver which happen to add ramoops platform >>> device and also registers ramoops region with minidump. >>> - Added download mode patch series with this minidump series. >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1680076012-10785-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1679491817-2498-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> - Addressed review comment made by [quic_tsoni/bmasney] to add documentation. >>> - Addressed comments made by [srinivas.kandagatla] >>> - Dropped pstore 6/6 from the last series, till i get conclusion to get pstore >>> region in minidump. >>> - Fixed issue reported by kernel test robot. >>> >>> Changes in v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1676978713-7394-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com/ >>> >>> Testing of the patches has been done on sm8450 target after enabling config like >>> CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM and CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE and once the device boots up. >>> >>> echo mini > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameters/download_mode >>> >>> Try crashing it via devmem2 0xf11c000(this is known to create xpu violation and >>> and put the device in download mode) on command prompt. >>> >>> Default storage type is set to via USB, so minidump would be downloaded with the >>> help of x86_64 machine (running PCAT tool) attached to Qualcomm device which has >>> backed minidump boot firmware support. >>> >>> This will make the device go to download mode and collect the minidump on to the >>> attached x86 machine running the Qualcomm PCAT tool(This comes as part Qualcomm >>> package manager kit). >>> >>> After that we will see a bunch of predefined registered region as binary blobs files >>> starts with md_* downloaded on the x86 machine on given location in PCAT tool from >>> the target device, more about this can be found in qualcomm minidump guide patch. >>> >> >> I tried to apply this series on top of 535a265d7f0dd50 (as suggested by >> `b4 am -l -g`), but it conflicts on patch [04/17]. Please specify the >> exact base commit or another series for which this series is based on. > > Apologies ! > I just realized, it was 6.5-rc7, but let me rebase version of the series; > > Sorry, for all the reviewed done so far, i will definitely take care of them or reply. > OK, see you in v6!