[PATCH v3] powerpc/fadump: when fadump is supported register the fadump sysfs files.
Hari Bathini
hbathini at linux.ibm.com
Fri Nov 8 22:38:58 AEDT 2019
On 07/11/19 10:17 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Currently it is not possible to distinguish the case when fadump is
> supported by firmware and disabled in kernel and completely unsupported
> using the kernel sysfs interface. User can investigate the devicetree
> but it is more reasonable to provide sysfs files in case we get some
> fadumpv2 in the future.
>
> With this patch sysfs files are available whenever fadump is supported
> by firmware.
>
> There is duplicate message about lack of support by firmware in
> fadump_reserve_mem and setup_fadump. Remove the duplicate message in
> setup_fadump.
Thanks for doing this, Michal.
Exporting the node will be helpful in finding if FADump is supported,
given FADump is now supported on two different platforms...
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
> ---
> v2: move the sysfs initialization earlier to avoid condition nesting
> v3: remove duplicate message
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 15 ++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index ed59855430b9..ff0114aeba9b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -1466,16 +1466,15 @@ static void fadump_init_files(void)
> */
> int __init setup_fadump(void)
> {
> - if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> - return 0;
> -
> - if (!fw_dump.fadump_supported) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "Firmware-assisted dump is not supported on"
> - " this hardware\n");
> + if (!fw_dump.fadump_supported)
> return 0;
> - }
>
> + fadump_init_files();
> fadump_show_config();
> +
> + if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> + return 1;
> +
> /*
> * If dump data is available then see if it is valid and prepare for
> * saving it to the disk.
> @@ -1492,8 +1491,6 @@ int __init setup_fadump(void)
> else if (fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size)
> fw_dump.ops->fadump_init_mem_struct(&fw_dump);
>
> - fadump_init_files();
> -
> return 1;
> }
> subsys_initcall(setup_fadump);
>
--
- Hari
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