[RFC PATCH 0/6] Add basic Minidump kernel driver support

[Mukesh Ojha]

On 2/25/2023 12:36 AM, Brian Masney wrote:
> Hi Mukesh,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 04:10:42PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>> On 2/23/2023 6:07 PM, Brian Masney wrote:
>>> I'd like to test this series plus your series that sets the multiple
>>> download modes.
>>
>> Sure, you are welcome, but for that you need a device running with Qualcomm
>> SoC and if it has a upstream support.
> 
> I will be testing this series on a sa8540p (QDrive3 Automotive
> Development Board), which has the sc8280xp SoC with good upstream
> support. This is also the same board that I have a reliable way to
> make the board crash due to a known firmware bug.
> 


Can you try below patch to just select minidump download mode and make 
the device crash ?

--------------------------------------->8-------------------------------
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi 
b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
index 0d02599..bd8e1a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@
         firmware {
                 scm: scm {
                         compatible = "qcom,scm-sc8280xp", "qcom,scm";
+                       qcom,dload-mode = <&tcsr 0x13000>;
                 };
         };

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c b/drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c
index cdbfe54..e1539a2 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

  #include "qcom_scm.h"

-static bool download_mode = 
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_QCOM_SCM_DOWNLOAD_MODE_DEFAULT);
+static bool download_mode = true;
  module_param(download_mode, bool, 0);

  #define SCM_HAS_CORE_CLK       BIT(0)
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static void qcom_scm_set_download_mode(bool enable)
                 ret = __qcom_scm_set_dload_mode(__scm->dev, enable);
         } else if (__scm->dload_mode_addr) {
                 ret = qcom_scm_io_writel(__scm->dload_mode_addr,
-                               enable ? QCOM_SCM_BOOT_SET_DLOAD_MODE : 0);
+                               enable ? 0x20 : 0);
         } else {
                 dev_err(__scm->dev,
                         "No available mechanism for setting download 
mode\n");




>> Also, testing of this patch needs some minimal out of tree patches and
>> i can help you with that.
> 
> Yup, that's fine. Hopefully we can also work to get those dependencies
> merged upstream as well.
> 
> Brian
>