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Ramoops oops/panic logger
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=========================
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Sergiu Iordache <sergiu@chromium.org>
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2012-05-03 13:45:02 +08:00
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Updated: 17 November 2011
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Introduction
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Ramoops is an oops/panic logger that writes its logs to RAM before the system
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crashes. It works by logging oopses and panics in a circular buffer. Ramoops
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needs a system with persistent RAM so that the content of that area can
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survive after a restart.
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Ramoops concepts
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Ramoops uses a predefined memory area to store the dump. The start and size
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and type of the memory area are set using three variables:
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* ``mem_address`` for the start
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* ``mem_size`` for the size. The memory size will be rounded down to a
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power of two.
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* ``mem_type`` to specifiy if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine).
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Typically the default value of ``mem_type=0`` should be used as that sets the pstore
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mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting ``mem_type=1`` attempts to use
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``pgprot_noncached``, which only works on some platforms. This is because pstore
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depends on atomic operations. At least on ARM, pgprot_noncached causes the
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memory to be mapped strongly ordered, and atomic operations on strongly ordered
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memory are implementation defined, and won't work on many ARMs such as omaps.
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The memory area is divided into ``record_size`` chunks (also rounded down to
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power of two) and each kmesg dump writes a ``record_size`` chunk of
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information.
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2020-05-14 05:35:03 +08:00
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Limiting which kinds of kmsg dumps are stored can be controlled via
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the ``max_reason`` value, as defined in include/linux/kmsg_dump.h's
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``enum kmsg_dump_reason``. For example, to store both Oopses and Panics,
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``max_reason`` should be set to 2 (KMSG_DUMP_OOPS), to store only Panics
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``max_reason`` should be set to 1 (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC). Setting this to 0
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(KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the reason filtering will be controlled by the
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``printk.always_kmsg_dump`` boot param: if unset, it'll be KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
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otherwise KMSG_DUMP_MAX.
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The module uses a counter to record multiple dumps but the counter gets reset
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on restart (i.e. new dumps after the restart will overwrite old ones).
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Ramoops also supports software ECC protection of persistent memory regions.
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This might be useful when a hardware reset was used to bring the machine back
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to life (i.e. a watchdog triggered). In such cases, RAM may be somewhat
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corrupt, but usually it is restorable.
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Setting the parameters
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----------------------
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Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in several different manners:
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A. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
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as before). For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during
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boot and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a
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machine with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell
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the kernel to use only the first 128 MB of memory, and place ECC-protected
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ramoops region at 128 MB boundary::
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mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1
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B. Use Device Tree bindings, as described in
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``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt``.
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For example::
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reserved-memory {
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#address-cells = <2>;
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#size-cells = <2>;
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ranges;
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ramoops@8f000000 {
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compatible = "ramoops";
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reg = <0 0x8f000000 0 0x100000>;
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record-size = <0x4000>;
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console-size = <0x4000>;
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};
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};
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C. Use a platform device and set the platform data. The parameters can then
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be set through that platform data. An example of doing that is:
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.. code-block:: c
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#include <linux/pstore_ram.h>
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[...]
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static struct ramoops_platform_data ramoops_data = {
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.mem_size = <...>,
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.mem_address = <...>,
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.mem_type = <...>,
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.record_size = <...>,
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.max_reason = <...>,
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.ecc = <...>,
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};
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static struct platform_device ramoops_dev = {
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.name = "ramoops",
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.dev = {
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.platform_data = &ramoops_data,
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},
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};
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[... inside a function ...]
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int ret;
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ret = platform_device_register(&ramoops_dev);
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if (ret) {
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printk(KERN_ERR "unable to register platform device\n");
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return ret;
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}
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You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when
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specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve()
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very early in the architecture code, e.g.::
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#include <linux/memblock.h>
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memblock_reserve(ramoops_data.mem_address, ramoops_data.mem_size);
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Dump format
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The data dump begins with a header, currently defined as ``====`` followed by a
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timestamp and a new line. The dump then continues with the actual data.
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Reading the data
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The dump data can be read from the pstore filesystem. The format for these
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files is ``dmesg-ramoops-N``, where N is the record number in memory. To delete
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a stored record from RAM, simply unlink the respective pstore file.
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Persistent function tracing
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Persistent function tracing might be useful for debugging software or hardware
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related hangs. The functions call chain log is stored in a ``ftrace-ramoops``
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file. Here is an example of usage::
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# mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/
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pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now
we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob.
It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we
have:
- Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can
move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still
not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one
thing less to worry about;
- Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried
it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that
way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to
pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register
"internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end";
- When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write
to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course,
still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer').
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
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# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/pstore/record_ftrace
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# reboot -f
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[...]
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# mount -t pstore pstore /mnt/
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# tail /mnt/ftrace-ramoops
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0 ffffffff8101ea64 ffffffff8101bcda native_apic_mem_read <- disconnect_bsp_APIC+0x6a/0xc0
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0 ffffffff8101ea44 ffffffff8101bcf6 native_apic_mem_write <- disconnect_bsp_APIC+0x86/0xc0
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0 ffffffff81020084 ffffffff8101a4b5 hpet_disable <- native_machine_shutdown+0x75/0x90
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0 ffffffff81005f94 ffffffff8101a4bb iommu_shutdown_noop <- native_machine_shutdown+0x7b/0x90
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0 ffffffff8101a6a1 ffffffff8101a437 native_machine_emergency_restart <- native_machine_restart+0x37/0x40
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0 ffffffff811f9876 ffffffff8101a73a acpi_reboot <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0xaa/0x1e0
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0 ffffffff8101a514 ffffffff8101a772 mach_reboot_fixups <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0xe2/0x1e0
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0 ffffffff811d9c54 ffffffff8101a7a0 __const_udelay <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0x110/0x1e0
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0 ffffffff811d9c34 ffffffff811d9c80 __delay <- __const_udelay+0x30/0x40
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0 ffffffff811d9d14 ffffffff811d9c3f delay_tsc <- __delay+0xf/0x20
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