[PATCH v4 08/21] dt-bindings: reserved-memory: Add qcom,ramoops binding

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 6:36 AM Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha at quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> Qualcomm ramoops minidump logger provide a means of storing
> the ramoops data to some dynamically reserved memory instead
> of traditionally implemented ramoops where the region should
> be statically fixed ram region. Its device tree binding
> would be exactly same as ramoops device tree binding and is
> going to contain traditional ramoops frontend data and this
> content will be collected via Qualcomm minidump infrastructure
> provided from the boot firmware.

The big difference is if firmware is not deciding where this log
lives, then it doesn't need to be in DT. How does anything except the
kernel that allocates the log find the logs?

I'm pretty sure I already said all this before.

>
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha at quicinc.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 126 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..b1fdcf3f8ad4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/qcom/qcom,ramoops.yaml#"
> +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#"
> +
> +title: Qualcomm Ramoops minidump logger
> +
> +description: |
> +  Qualcomm ramoops minidump logger provide a means of storing the ramoops
> +  data to some dynamically reserved memory instead of traditionally
> +  implemented ramoops where the region should be statically fixed ram
> +  region. Because of its similarity with ramoops it will also have same
> +  set of property what ramoops have it in its schema and is going to
> +  contain traditional ramoops frontend data and this region will be
> +  collected via Qualcomm minidump infrastructure provided from the
> +  boot firmware.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha at quicinc.com>
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    items:
> +      - enum:
> +          - qcom,sm8450-ramoops
> +      - const: qcom,ramoops
> +
> +  memory-region:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +    description: handle to memory reservation for qcom,ramoops region.
> +
> +  ecc-size:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: enables ECC support and specifies ECC buffer size in bytes
> +    default: 0 # no ECC
> +
> +  record-size:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: maximum size in bytes of each kmsg dump
> +    default: 0
> +
> +  console-size:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: size in bytes of log buffer reserved for kernel messages
> +    default: 0
> +
> +  ftrace-size:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: size in bytes of log buffer reserved for function tracing and profiling
> +    default: 0
> +
> +  pmsg-size:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: size in bytes of log buffer reserved for userspace messages
> +    default: 0
> +
> +  mem-type:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: if present, sets the type of mapping is to be used to map the reserved region.
> +    default: 0
> +    oneOf:
> +      - const: 0
> +        description: write-combined
> +      - const: 1
> +        description: unbuffered
> +      - const: 2
> +        description: cached
> +
> +  max-reason:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    default: 2 # log oopses and panics
> +    maximum: 0x7fffffff
> +    description: |
> +      If present, sets maximum type of kmsg dump reasons to store.
> +      This can be set to INT_MAX to store all kmsg dumps.
> +      See include/linux/kmsg_dump.h KMSG_DUMP_* for other kmsg dump reason values.
> +      Setting this to 0 (KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the reason filtering will be
> +      controlled by the printk.always_kmsg_dump boot param.
> +      If unset, it will be 2 (KMSG_DUMP_OOPS), otherwise 5 (KMSG_DUMP_MAX).
> +
> +  flags:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    default: 0
> +    description: |
> +      If present, pass ramoops behavioral flags
> +      (see include/linux/pstore_ram.h RAMOOPS_FLAG_* for flag values).
> +
> +  no-dump-oops:
> +    deprecated: true

Why would you define deprecated properties in a *new* binding?

> +    type: boolean
> +    description: |
> +      Use max_reason instead. If present, and max_reason is not specified,
> +      it is equivalent to max_reason = 1 (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC).
> +
> +  unbuffered:
> +    deprecated: true
> +    type: boolean
> +    description: |
> +      Use mem_type instead. If present, and mem_type is not specified,
> +      it is equivalent to mem_type = 1 and uses unbuffered mappings to map
> +      the reserved region (defaults to buffered mappings mem_type = 0).
> +      If both are specified -- "mem_type" overrides "unbuffered".
> +
> +unevaluatedProperties: false
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - memory-region
> +
> +anyOf:
> +  - required: [record-size]
> +  - required: [console-size]
> +  - required: [ftrace-size]
> +  - required: [pmsg-size]
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +
> +    qcom_ramoops {
> +        compatible = "qcom,sm8450-ramoops", "qcom,ramoops";
> +        memory-region = <&qcom_ramoops_region>;
> +        console-size = <0x8000>;    /* 32kB */
> +        record-size = <0x400>;      /*  1kB */
> +        ecc-size = <16>;
> +    };
> --
> 2.7.4
>