linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c, branch v4.3

powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handling

2014-10-30T05:52:46+00:00

Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The
below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel.
Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore.

    # crash vmlinux vmcore
    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
    This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

          KERNEL: vmlinux
        DUMPFILE: vmcore
    	CPUS: 16
    	DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
          UPTIME: 00:03:28
    LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41
           TASKS: 268
        NODENAME: linux-dhr2
         RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default
         VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014
         MACHINE: ppc64le  (4116 Mhz)
          MEMORY: 40 GB
           PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details)
    	 PID: 6223
         COMMAND: "bash"
    	TASK: c0000009661b2500  [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000]
    	 CPU: 2
           STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
[mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...

arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks

2014-05-28T03:35:39+00:00

Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks.
There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdt

2014-04-30T05:59:15+00:00

Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop
call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return
value const and the property length ptr type an int.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Tested-by: Grant Likely 
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

powerpc/prom: Stop scanning dev-tree for fdump early

2014-04-28T07:35:18+00:00

Function early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump() is called to scan the device
tree for fdump properties under node "rtas". Any one of them is
invalid, we can stop scanning the device tree early by returning
"1". It would save a bit time during boot.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

mm/ppc: use common help functions to free reserved pages

2013-04-29T22:54:30+00:00

Use common help functions to free reserved pages.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned long long

2012-09-07T01:44:30+00:00

There are some device-tree nodes, whose values are of type phys_addr_t.
The phys_addr_t is variable sized based on the CONFIG_PHSY_T_64BIT.

Change these to a fixed unsigned long long for consistency.

This patch does the change only for memory_limit.

The following is a list of such variables which need the change:

 1) kernel_end, crashk_size - in arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c

 2) (struct resource *)crashk_res.start - We could export a local static
    variable from machine_kexec.c.

Changing the above values might break the kexec-tools. So, I will
fix kexec-tools first to handle the different sized values and then change
 the above.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix fallout from system.h split up

2012-04-02T04:00:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.

2012-02-22T23:50:02+00:00

This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to
invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release
the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump.
Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool
can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of
echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'.

Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required
for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump
doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo

2012-02-22T23:50:02+00:00

Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
crash.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt