[Skiboot] [PATCH v8 02/24] FSP/MDST: Rename fsp-mdst-table.c -> fsp-sysdump.c
Vasant Hegde
hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 2 19:42:10 AEST 2019
On 06/28/2019 06:24 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Vasant Hegde's on June 17, 2019 3:10 am:
>> OPAL is using MDST ntuple in SPIRAH to pass list of memory region (mostly OPAL
>> console and host dmesg) to be collected as part of SYSDUMP. OPAL calls attn
>> instruction in assert path. FSP detects attention and creates SYSDUMP.
>
> This is a bit hard to parse, I don't think you need to explain it in
> detail for this particular patch though.
I wanted to explain what we have today and what new feature I'm going to introduce.
If you want I can drop above description.
>
>> Soon we are going to support OPAL MIPL feature (aka Memory Preserving IPL).
>> Hence make below changes to reflect its usage:
>> - fsp-mdst-table.c -> fsp-sysdump.c
>> - fsp-mdst-table.h -> opal-dump.h (This will cater both SYSDUMP and MPIPL)
>> - Rename structure name : dump_mdst_table -> mdst_table
>
> Now we have MPIPL, SYSDUMP, DUMP, FADUMP, and MDST.
>
> Are these all completely different such that this makes sense, or can
> we consolidate a bit?
Yes. All are different and makes sense.
MDST / MDDT / MDRT = These are ntuple name inside HDAT
MPIPL = FADUMP = Memory Preserving dump mechanism
SYSDUMP = System dump provided by FSP
FIPSDUMP = FSP dump (We just collect and save it in host Linux)
DUMP = Infrastructure to offload SYSDUMP/FIPSDUMP
-Vasant
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