<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch v5.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T09:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-10T11:32:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4d2e26a38fbcde2ba14882cbdb845caa1c17e19b'/>
<id>4d2e26a38fbcde2ba14882cbdb845caa1c17e19b</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific
book.

The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there
was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard.

The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few
missing section title identifiers.

One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used
to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be
used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an
even longer one.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt; # cxl
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific
book.

The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there
was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard.

The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few
missing section title identifiers.

One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used
to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be
used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an
even longer one.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt; # cxl
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into it</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T14:03:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T18:21:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=330d48105245abfb8c9ca491dc53ea500657217a'/>
<id>330d48105245abfb8c9ca491dc53ea500657217a</id>
<content type='text'>
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=192f0f8e9db7efe4ac98d47f5fa4334e43c1204d'/>
<id>192f0f8e9db7efe4ac98d47f5fa4334e43c1204d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Add documentation for vcpudispatch_stats</title>
<updated>2019-07-04T12:27:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-03T17:04:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2438ac954bf506d4d7ad398f733103d7c9adbbfd'/>
<id>2438ac954bf506d4d7ad398f733103d7c9adbbfd</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a document describing the fields provided by
/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add a document describing the fields provided by
/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: kdump: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T20:21:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-12T17:52:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d67297ad343ec02a88f947b45526c92d2870aed3'/>
<id>d67297ad343ec02a88f947b45526c92d2870aed3</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.

Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:

	PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)

I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.

Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:

	PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)

I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: mark orphan documents as such</title>
<updated>2019-06-08T19:42:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-07T18:54:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=27c054d2939f1a46a4da62732e71c140e664afb9'/>
<id>27c054d2939f1a46a4da62732e71c140e664afb9</id>
<content type='text'>
Sphinx doesn't like orphan documents:

    Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f429-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f746-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f769-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32h743-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32mp157-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/laptops/lg-laptop.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree

So, while they aren't on any toctree, add :orphan: to them, in order
to silent this warning.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Sphinx doesn't like orphan documents:

    Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f429-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f746-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f769-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32h743-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32mp157-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/laptops/lg-laptop.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
    Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree

So, while they aren't on any toctree, add :orphan: to them, in order
to silent this warning.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronym</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T16:54:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-01T06:11:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=29b861ea7742e571c1940366944eabc24d612e98'/>
<id>29b861ea7742e571c1940366944eabc24d612e98</id>
<content type='text'>
Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add force enable of DAWR on P9 option</title>
<updated>2019-04-20T12:20:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-01T06:03:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c1fe190c06723322f2dfac31d3b982c581e434ef'/>
<id>c1fe190c06723322f2dfac31d3b982c581e434ef</id>
<content type='text'>
This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via:
  echo Y &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous

The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in:
  9654153158 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt

This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box
(ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR.  This
allows them to force enable DAWR.

This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is
cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your
machine once again safe from crashing.

Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force
enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via
PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an
inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests.

For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force
enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on
POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the
dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support
writing the DAWR.

To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest:
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c
Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via:
  echo Y &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous

The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in:
  9654153158 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt

This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box
(ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR.  This
allows them to force enable DAWR.

This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is
cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your
machine once again safe from crashing.

Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force
enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via
PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an
inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests.

For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force
enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on
POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the
dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support
writing the DAWR.

To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest:
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c
Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dump</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T00:32:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-20T08:17:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a4e92ce8e4c8275bacfe3529d6ac85d54a233d87'/>
<id>a4e92ce8e4c8275bacfe3529d6ac85d54a233d87</id>
<content type='text'>
One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.

In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.

In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".

We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.

Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use 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.

Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7557         193        6822          12         541        6725
Swap:          4095           0        4095

With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           8133         194        7464          12         475        7338
Swap:          4095           0        4095

Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.

Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.

TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.

In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.

In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".

We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.

Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use 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.

Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7557         193        6822          12         541        6725
Swap:          4095           0        4095

With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           8133         194        7464          12         475        7338
Swap:          4095           0        4095

Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.

Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.

TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Add some documentation of ISA versions</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T11:21:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-05T09:01:01+00:00</published>
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Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA
versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it
already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in
one place.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA
versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it
already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in
one place.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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