linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/base
Johannes Berg 833c95456a device coredump: add new device coredump class
Many devices run firmware and/or complex hardware, and most of that
can have bugs. When it misbehaves, however, it is often much harder
to debug than software running on the host.

Introduce a "device coredump" mechanism to allow dumping internal
device/firmware state through a generalized mechanism. As devices
are different and information needed can vary accordingly, this
doesn't prescribe a file format - it just provides mechanism to
get data to be able to capture it in a generalized way (e.g. in
distributions.)

The dumped data will be readable in sysfs in the virtual device's
data file under /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd*/. Writing to it will
free the data and remove the device, as does a 5-minute timeout.

Note that generalized capturing of such data may result in privacy
issues, so users generally need to be involved. In order to allow
certain users/system integrators/... to disable the feature at all,
introduce a Kconfig option to override the drivers that would like
to have the feature.

For now, this provides two ways of dumping data:
 1) with a vmalloc'ed area, that is then given to the subsystem
    and freed after retrieval or timeout
 2) with a generalized reader/free function method

We could/should add more options, e.g. a list of pages, since the
vmalloc area is very limited on some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-23 22:53:15 -07:00
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power PM / sleep: fix kernel-doc warnings in drivers/base/power/main.c 2014-07-29 01:32:50 +02:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branches 'regmap/fix/cache', 'regmap/fix/debugfs' and 'regmap/fix/volatile' into regmap-linus 2014-08-31 13:23:45 +01:00
attribute_container.c drivers/base: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-02-14 14:31:37 -08:00
base.h driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device 2014-05-27 12:37:18 -07:00
bus.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
class.c sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convoluted 2013-09-26 14:50:01 -07:00
component.c component: fix bug with legacy API 2014-07-04 18:05:05 +01:00
container.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
core.c sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner() 2014-04-16 11:56:33 -07:00
cpu.c x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling 2014-02-18 12:45:38 -08:00
dd.c driver core: Inline dev_set/get_drvdata 2014-05-27 13:46:59 -07:00
devcoredump.c device coredump: add new device coredump class 2014-09-23 22:53:15 -07:00
devres.c devres: Add devm_kasprintf and devm_kvasprintf API 2014-07-17 18:26:44 -07:00
devtmpfs.c devtmpfs: Calling delete_path() only when necessary 2013-12-19 10:10:32 -08:00
dma-coherent.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
dma-contiguous.c mm, CMA: change cma_declare_contiguous() to obey coding convention 2014-08-06 18:01:16 -07:00
dma-mapping.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
driver.c driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files. 2013-08-27 10:24:15 -07:00
firmware_class.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2014-08-06 08:06:39 -07:00
firmware.c firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj 2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Kconfig device coredump: add new device coredump class 2014-09-23 22:53:15 -07:00
Makefile device coredump: add new device coredump class 2014-09-23 22:53:15 -07:00
map.c
memory.c mm/mem-hotplug: replace simple_strtoull() with kstrtoull() 2014-08-06 18:01:18 -07:00
module.c driver core: module.c: Use kasprintf 2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
node.c mm: export NR_SHMEM via sysinfo(2) / si_meminfo() interfaces 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
pinctrl.c drivers: pinctrl sleep and idle states in the core 2013-06-16 11:56:52 +02:00
platform.c Driver core patches for 3.17-rc1 2014-08-04 18:34:04 -07:00
soc.c mode_t whack-a-mole: ->is_visible() returns umode_t... 2012-05-29 23:28:42 -04:00
syscore.c PM / sleep: trace events for suspend/resume 2014-06-07 00:18:07 +02:00
topology.c topology: Fix compilation warning when not in SMP 2014-04-16 14:13:26 -07:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00