fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.
On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line. The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition. It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled. In other words you should probably add
>
> if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.
The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.
Thanks,
-Mahesh.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index 0cfcf98..359f078 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#include <asm/pci-bridge.h>
#include <asm/machdep.h>
#include <asm/kdump.h>
+#include <asm/fadump.h>
#define DBG(...)
@@ -445,7 +446,12 @@
static void iommu_table_clear(struct iommu_table *tbl)
{
- if (!is_kdump_kernel()) {
+ /*
+ * In case of firmware assisted dump system goes through clean
+ * reboot process at the time of system crash. Hence it's safe to
+ * clear the TCE entries if firmware assisted dump is active.
+ */
+ if (!is_kdump_kernel() || is_fadump_active()) {
/* Clear the table in case firmware left allocations in it */
ppc_md.tce_free(tbl, tbl->it_offset, tbl->it_size);
return;