From c7e64b9ce04aa2e3fad7396d92b5cb92056d16ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stewart Smith Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:25:42 +1100 Subject: powerpc/powernv Platform dump interface This enables support for userspace to fetch and initiate FSP and Platform dumps from the service processor (via firmware) through sysfs. Based on original patch from Vasant Hegde Flow: - We register for OPAL notification events. - OPAL sends new dump available notification. - We make information on dump available via sysfs - Userspace requests dump contents - We retrieve the dump via OPAL interface - User copies the dump data - userspace sends ack for dump - We send ACK to OPAL. sysfs files: - We add the /sys/firmware/opal/dump directory - echoing 1 (well, anything, but in future we may support different dump types) to /sys/firmware/opal/dump/initiate_dump will initiate a dump. - Each dump that we've been notified of gets a directory in /sys/firmware/opal/dump/ with a name of the dump type and ID (in hex, as this is what's used elsewhere to identify the dump). - Each dump has files: id, type, dump and acknowledge dump is binary and is the dump itself. echoing 'ack' to acknowledge (currently any string will do) will acknowledge the dump and it will soon after disappear from sysfs. OPAL APIs: - opal_dump_init() - opal_dump_info() - opal_dump_read() - opal_dump_ack() - opal_dump_resend_notification() Currently we are only ever notified for one dump at a time (until the user explicitly acks the current dump, then we get a notification of the next dump), but this kernel code should "just work" when OPAL starts notifying us of all the dumps present. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..32fe7f5c488 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/opal/dump +Date: Feb 2014 +Contact: Stewart Smith +Description: + This directory exposes interfaces for interacting with + the FSP and platform dumps through OPAL firmware interface. + + This is only for the powerpc/powernv platform. + + initiate_dump: When '1' is written to it, + we will initiate a dump. + Read this file for supported commands. + + 0xXX-0xYYYY: A directory for dump of type 0xXX and + id 0xYYYY (in hex). The name of this + directory should not be relied upon to + be in this format, only that it's unique + among all dumps. For determining the type + and ID of the dump, use the id and type files. + Do not rely on any particular size of dump + type or dump id. + + Each dump has the following files: + id: An ASCII representation of the dump ID + in hex (e.g. '0x01') + type: An ASCII representation of the type of + dump in the format "0x%x %s" with the ID + in hex and a description of the dump type + (or 'unknown'). + Type '0xffffffff unknown' is used when + we could not get the type from firmware. + e.g. '0x02 System/Platform Dump' + dump: A binary file containing the dump. + The size of the dump is the size of this file. + acknowledge: When 'ack' is written to this, we will + acknowledge that we've retrieved the + dump to the service processor. It will + then remove it, making the dump + inaccessible. + Reading this file will get a list of + supported actions. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258