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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public•gmane.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public•gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] fs/crashdd: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:21:57 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180330105156.GA24344@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180330103907.GC3313@nanopsycho>

On Friday, March 03/30/18, 2018 at 16:09:07 +0530, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:56:33AM CET, rahul.lakkireddy-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public•gmane.org wrote:
> >Add a new module crashdd that exports the /sys/kernel/crashdd/
> >directory in second kernel, containing collected hardware/firmware
> >dumps.
> >
> >The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
> >specific hardware/firmware logs to /sys/kernel/crashdd/ directory are
> >as follows:
> >
> >1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
> >register to the crashdd module (via crashdd_add_dump()), with
> >callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
> >firmware/hardware log collection.
> >
> >2. Crashdd creates a driver's directory under
> >/sys/kernel/crashdd/<driver>. Then, it allocates the buffer with
> 
> This smells. I need to identify the exact ASIC instance that produced
> the dump. To identify by driver name does not help me if I have multiple
> instances of the same driver. This looks wrong to me. This looks like
> a job for devlink where you have 1 devlink instance per 1 ASIC instance.
> 
> Please see:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/?series=36524
> 
> I bevieve that the solution in the patchset could be used for
> your usecase too.
> 
> 

The sysfs approach proposed here had been dropped in favour exporting
the dumps as ELF notes in /proc/vmcore.

Will be posting the new patches soon.

> >requested size and invokes the device driver's registered callback
> >function.
> >
> >3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
> >and returns control back to crashdd.
> >
> >4. Crashdd exposes the buffer as a binary file via
> >/sys/kernel/crashdd/<driver>/<dump_file>.
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-30 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-24 10:56 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
     [not found] ` <cover.1521888444.git.rahul.lakkireddy-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2018-03-24 10:56   ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] fs/crashdd: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-25 12:43     ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-30 10:39     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-30 10:51       ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]
2018-03-30 18:42         ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-02  9:11           ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-02 12:21             ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-02 12:30             ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-03  7:04               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-30 15:11       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-02  9:12         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-03  5:43           ` Alex Vesker
2018-04-03 12:35             ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-24 10:56   ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] cxgb4: " Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-24 15:18     ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]     ` <f06cca21650affa10d83a28dbd7fb577792e35a9.1521888444.git.rahul.lakkireddy-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2018-03-24 22:18       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-03-25  0:17         ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-24 15:20 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-26 13:45   ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-27 13:17     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-27 15:27       ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-27 15:59         ` Eric W. Biederman

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