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authorMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-02-16 01:14:22 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-02-23 10:50:01 +1100
commiteb39c8803d0e3d98fe74825f99287f63d55e6460 (patch)
treecf157bb2bb5271aaf1823e9ee3b91800c00c8b05 /arch/powerpc/Kconfig
parent8e0aa6d436f303a37df7ec68758883ade077d123 (diff)
fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump.
Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move RMA region data to the reserved memory area. If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback to existing kexec-based kdump. Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 1919634a9b3..afa4dabfad7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -386,6 +386,19 @@ config PHYP_DUMP
If unsure, say "N"
+config FA_DUMP
+ bool "Firmware-assisted dump"
+ depends on PPC64 && PPC_RTAS && CRASH_DUMP
+ help
+ A robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash dump with
+ assistance from firmware. This approach does not use kexec,
+ instead firmware assists in booting the kdump kernel
+ while preserving memory contents. Firmware-assisted dump
+ is meant to be a kdump replacement offering robustness and
+ speed not possible without system firmware assistance.
+
+ If unsure, say "N"
+
config IRQ_ALL_CPUS
bool "Distribute interrupts on all CPUs by default"
depends on SMP && !MV64360