linux/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-kmsg.c

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powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic On BMC machines, console output is controlled by the OPAL firmware and is only flushed when its pollers are called. When the kernel is in a panic state, it no longer calls these pollers and thus console output does not completely flush, causing some output from the panic to be lost. Output is only actually lost when the kernel is configured to not power off or reboot after panic (i.e. CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT is set to 0) since OPAL flushes the console buffer as part of its power down routines. Before this patch, however, only partial output would be printed during the timeout wait. This patch adds a new kmsg_dumper which gets called at panic time to ensure panic output is not lost. It accomplishes this by calling OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH in the OPAL API, and if that is not available, the pollers are called enough times to (hopefully) completely flush the buffer. The flushing mechanism will only affect output printed at and before the kmsg_dump call in kernel/panic.c:panic(). As such, the "end Kernel panic" message may still be truncated as follows: >Call Trace: >[c000000f1f603b00] [c0000000008e9458] dump_stack+0x90/0xbc (unreliable) >[c000000f1f603b30] [c0000000008e7e78] panic+0xf8/0x2c4 >[c000000f1f603bc0] [c000000000be4860] mount_block_root+0x288/0x33c >[c000000f1f603c80] [c000000000be4d14] prepare_namespace+0x1f4/0x254 >[c000000f1f603d00] [c000000000be43e8] kernel_init_freeable+0x318/0x350 >[c000000f1f603dc0] [c00000000000bd74] kernel_init+0x24/0x130 >[c000000f1f603e30] [c0000000000095b0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xac >---[ end Kernel panic - not This functionality is implemented as a kmsg_dumper as it seems to be the most sensible way to introduce platform-specific functionality to the panic function. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-11-27 14:23:07 +08:00
/*
* kmsg dumper that ensures the OPAL console fully flushes panic messages
*
* Author: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
*
* Copyright 2015 IBM Corporation.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
* option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
#include <asm/opal.h>
#include <asm/opal-api.h>
/*
* Console output is controlled by OPAL firmware. The kernel regularly calls
* OPAL_POLL_EVENTS, which flushes some console output. In a panic state,
* however, the kernel no longer calls OPAL_POLL_EVENTS and the panic message
* may not be completely printed. This function does not actually dump the
* message, it just ensures that OPAL completely flushes the console buffer.
*/
static void force_opal_console_flush(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
{
int i;
int64_t ret;
powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic On BMC machines, console output is controlled by the OPAL firmware and is only flushed when its pollers are called. When the kernel is in a panic state, it no longer calls these pollers and thus console output does not completely flush, causing some output from the panic to be lost. Output is only actually lost when the kernel is configured to not power off or reboot after panic (i.e. CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT is set to 0) since OPAL flushes the console buffer as part of its power down routines. Before this patch, however, only partial output would be printed during the timeout wait. This patch adds a new kmsg_dumper which gets called at panic time to ensure panic output is not lost. It accomplishes this by calling OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH in the OPAL API, and if that is not available, the pollers are called enough times to (hopefully) completely flush the buffer. The flushing mechanism will only affect output printed at and before the kmsg_dump call in kernel/panic.c:panic(). As such, the "end Kernel panic" message may still be truncated as follows: >Call Trace: >[c000000f1f603b00] [c0000000008e9458] dump_stack+0x90/0xbc (unreliable) >[c000000f1f603b30] [c0000000008e7e78] panic+0xf8/0x2c4 >[c000000f1f603bc0] [c000000000be4860] mount_block_root+0x288/0x33c >[c000000f1f603c80] [c000000000be4d14] prepare_namespace+0x1f4/0x254 >[c000000f1f603d00] [c000000000be43e8] kernel_init_freeable+0x318/0x350 >[c000000f1f603dc0] [c00000000000bd74] kernel_init+0x24/0x130 >[c000000f1f603e30] [c0000000000095b0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xac >---[ end Kernel panic - not This functionality is implemented as a kmsg_dumper as it seems to be the most sensible way to introduce platform-specific functionality to the panic function. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-11-27 14:23:07 +08:00
/*
* Outside of a panic context the pollers will continue to run,
* so we don't need to do any special flushing.
*/
if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)
return;
if (opal_check_token(OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH)) {
ret = opal_console_flush(0);
if (ret == OPAL_UNSUPPORTED || ret == OPAL_PARAMETER)
return;
/* Incrementally flush until there's nothing left */
while (opal_console_flush(0) != OPAL_SUCCESS);
powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic On BMC machines, console output is controlled by the OPAL firmware and is only flushed when its pollers are called. When the kernel is in a panic state, it no longer calls these pollers and thus console output does not completely flush, causing some output from the panic to be lost. Output is only actually lost when the kernel is configured to not power off or reboot after panic (i.e. CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT is set to 0) since OPAL flushes the console buffer as part of its power down routines. Before this patch, however, only partial output would be printed during the timeout wait. This patch adds a new kmsg_dumper which gets called at panic time to ensure panic output is not lost. It accomplishes this by calling OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH in the OPAL API, and if that is not available, the pollers are called enough times to (hopefully) completely flush the buffer. The flushing mechanism will only affect output printed at and before the kmsg_dump call in kernel/panic.c:panic(). As such, the "end Kernel panic" message may still be truncated as follows: >Call Trace: >[c000000f1f603b00] [c0000000008e9458] dump_stack+0x90/0xbc (unreliable) >[c000000f1f603b30] [c0000000008e7e78] panic+0xf8/0x2c4 >[c000000f1f603bc0] [c000000000be4860] mount_block_root+0x288/0x33c >[c000000f1f603c80] [c000000000be4d14] prepare_namespace+0x1f4/0x254 >[c000000f1f603d00] [c000000000be43e8] kernel_init_freeable+0x318/0x350 >[c000000f1f603dc0] [c00000000000bd74] kernel_init+0x24/0x130 >[c000000f1f603e30] [c0000000000095b0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xac >---[ end Kernel panic - not This functionality is implemented as a kmsg_dumper as it seems to be the most sensible way to introduce platform-specific functionality to the panic function. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-11-27 14:23:07 +08:00
} else {
/*
* If OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH is not implemented in the firmware,
* the console can still be flushed by calling the polling
* function enough times to flush the buffer. We don't know
* how much output still needs to be flushed, but we can be
* generous since the kernel is in panic and doesn't need
* to do much else.
*/
printk(KERN_NOTICE "opal: OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH missing.\n");
for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++) {
opal_poll_events(NULL);
}
}
}
static struct kmsg_dumper opal_kmsg_dumper = {
.dump = force_opal_console_flush
};
void __init opal_kmsg_init(void)
{
int rc;
/* Add our dumper to the list */
rc = kmsg_dump_register(&opal_kmsg_dumper);
if (rc != 0)
pr_err("opal: kmsg_dump_register failed; returned %d\n", rc);
}