[PATCH] powerpc/fadump: sysfs for fadump memory reservation

Sourabh Jain sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Tue Aug 6 13:12:42 AEST 2019


Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by fadump
for saving the crash dump.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst |  5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c                     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
index 9ca12830a48e..4a7f6dc556f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs:
     be handled and vmcore will not be captured. This interface can be
     easily integrated with kdump service start/stop.
 
+/sys/kernel/fadump_mem_reserved
+
+   This is used to display the memory reserved by fadump for saving the
+   crash dump.
+
  /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem
     This file is available only when fadump is active during
     second kernel. This is used to release the reserved memory
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index 4eab97292cc2..70d49013ebec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -1514,6 +1514,13 @@ static ssize_t fadump_enabled_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", fw_dump.fadump_enabled);
 }
 
+static ssize_t fadump_mem_reserved_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+					struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+					char *buf)
+{
+	return sprintf(buf, "%ld\n", fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size);
+}
+
 static ssize_t fadump_register_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 					struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 					char *buf)
@@ -1632,6 +1639,9 @@ static struct kobj_attribute fadump_attr = __ATTR(fadump_enabled,
 static struct kobj_attribute fadump_register_attr = __ATTR(fadump_registered,
 						0644, fadump_register_show,
 						fadump_register_store);
+static struct kobj_attribute fadump_mem_reserved_attr =
+			__ATTR(fadump_mem_reserved, 0444,
+			fadump_mem_reserved_show, NULL);
 
 DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(fadump_region);
 
@@ -1663,6 +1673,10 @@ static void fadump_init_files(void)
 			printk(KERN_ERR "fadump: unable to create sysfs file"
 				" fadump_release_mem (%d)\n", rc);
 	}
+	rc = sysfs_create_file(kernel_kobj, &fadump_mem_reserved_attr.attr);
+	if (rc)
+		pr_err("unable to create sysfs file fadump_mem_reserved (%d)\n",
+			rc);
 	return;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.2



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