[PATCH v3 03/18] docs: qcom: Add qualcomm minidump guide

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:32:17PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>  Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 246 insertions(+)

You forget to add toctree entry:

---- >8 ----
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index 43ea35613dfcd4..251d070486c2ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
    perf-security
    pm/index
    pnp
+   qcom_minidump
    rapidio
    ras
    rtc

> +Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
> +
> +::
> +	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode

The snippet above isn't rendered to code block, so I have to fix it up:

---- >8 ----
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
index 062c797e90d9cf..408fe1beed1b78 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
@@ -208,9 +208,8 @@ Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
 where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
 will collect minidump along with fulldump.
 
-Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
+Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump::
 
-::
 	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
 
 Once the download mode is set, any kind of crash will make the device collect

> +By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
> +running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
> +a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
> +in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
> +md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
> +whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
> +so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
> +can be seen just opening the binary file.
> +
> <snipped> ...
> +One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
> +save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
> +can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
> +this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
> +was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
> +starts with md_*.
> +
> +Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
> +scope of this document.

There is inconsistency on inlining code keywords, so I have to inline
the rest:

---- >8 ----
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
index 408fe1beed1b78..117e61ef9fde67 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Client driver can use ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` API's to
 register and ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` to unregister
 their region from minidump driver.
 
-Client need to fill their region by filling qcom_apss_minidump_region
+Client need to fill their region by filling ``qcom_apss_minidump_region``
 structure object which consist of the region name, region's
 virtual and physical address and its size.
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Test
 
 Existing Qualcomm devices already supports entire ddr dump (also called
 full dump) by writing appropriate value to Qualcomm's top control and
-status register(tcsr) in driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c .
+status register(tcsr) in ``driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c``.
 
 SCM device Tree bindings required to support download mode
 For example (sm8450) ::
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ For example (sm8450) ::
 
 	};
 
-User of minidump can pass qcom_scm.download_mode="mini" to kernel
+User of minidump can pass ``qcom_scm.download_mode="mini"`` to kernel
 commandline to set the current download mode to minidump.
-Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
-where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
+Similarly, ``"full"`` is passed to set the download mode to full dump
+where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it ``"full,mini"``
 will collect minidump along with fulldump.
 
 Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump::
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ stored to an attached storage device.
 
 By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
 running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
-a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
+a set of binary blobs starts with name ``md_*`` in PCAT configured directory
 in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
-md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
+``md_REGION_A.BIN``. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
 whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
 so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
 can be seen just opening the binary file.
@@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ partition on the target device itself.
 
 One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
 save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
-can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
+can be pass it to another tool (``dexter.exe`` [Qualcomm tool]) which converts
 this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
 was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
-starts with md_*.
+starts with ``md_*``.
 
-Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
+Replacing the ``dexter.exe`` with some open source tool can be added as future
 scope of this document.

Thanks.

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