linux_dsm_epyc7002/include/uapi
Rahul Lakkireddy 2724273e8f vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel
The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.

2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note 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 vmcore module.

Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.

Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-14 13:46:04 -04:00
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asm-generic Merge branch 'parisc-4.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2018-04-12 17:07:04 -07:00
drm Linux 4.16-rc7 2018-03-28 14:30:41 +10:00
linux vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel 2018-05-14 13:46:04 -04:00
misc ocxl: Add get_metadata IOCTL to share OCXL information to userspace 2018-03-02 13:02:14 +11:00
mtd License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
rdma uapi: Fix SPDX tags for files referring to the 'OpenIB.org' license 2018-04-23 11:10:33 -04:00
scsi License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
sound ASoC: soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm: Fix sparse warnings 2018-02-26 11:05:12 +00:00
video License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
xen License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00