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120 lines
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Ramoops oops/panic logger
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Sergiu Iordache <sergiu@chromium.org>
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Updated: 17 November 2011
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0. 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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1. Ramoops concepts
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Ramoops uses a predefined memory area to store the dump. The start and size of
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the memory area are set using two 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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The memory area is divided into "record_size" chunks (also rounded down to
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power of two) and each oops/panic writes a "record_size" chunk of
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information.
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Dumping both oopses and panics can be done by setting 1 in the "dump_oops"
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variable while setting 0 in that variable dumps only the panics.
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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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2. Setting the parameters
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Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different manners:
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1. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
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as before).
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For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during boot
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and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a machine
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with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell the
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kernel to use only the first 128 MB of memory, and place ECC-protected ramoops
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region at 128 MB boundary:
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"mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1"
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2. 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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#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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.record_size = <...>,
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.dump_oops = <...>,
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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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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# 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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