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| 1 | +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
| 2 | +
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| 3 | +pstore block oops/panic logger |
| 4 | +============================== |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +Introduction |
| 7 | +------------ |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +pstore block (pstore/blk) is an oops/panic logger that writes its logs to a |
| 10 | +block device and non-block device before the system crashes. You can get |
| 11 | +these log files by mounting pstore filesystem like:: |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | + mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +pstore block concepts |
| 17 | +--------------------- |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +pstore/blk provides efficient configuration method for pstore/blk, which |
| 20 | +divides all configurations into two parts, configurations for user and |
| 21 | +configurations for driver. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +Configurations for user determine how pstore/blk works, such as pmsg_size, |
| 24 | +kmsg_size and so on. All of them support both Kconfig and module parameters, |
| 25 | +but module parameters have priority over Kconfig. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Configurations for driver are all about block device and non-block device, |
| 28 | +such as total_size of block device and read/write operations. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +Configurations for user |
| 31 | +----------------------- |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +All of these configurations support both Kconfig and module parameters, but |
| 34 | +module parameters have priority over Kconfig. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +Here is an example for module parameters:: |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + pstore_blk.blkdev=179:7 pstore_blk.kmsg_size=64 |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +The detail of each configurations may be of interest to you. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +blkdev |
| 43 | +~~~~~~ |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +The block device to use. Most of the time, it is a partition of block device. |
| 46 | +It's required for pstore/blk. It is also used for MTD device. |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +It accepts the following variants for block device: |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +1. <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself; no |
| 51 | + leading 0x, for example b302. |
| 52 | +#. /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk |
| 53 | +#. /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number of partition - device |
| 54 | + number of disk plus the partition number |
| 55 | +#. /dev/<disk_name>p<decimal> - same as the above; this form is used when disk |
| 56 | + name of partitioned disk ends with a digit. |
| 57 | +#. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of |
| 58 | + a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an |
| 59 | + EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP, |
| 60 | + where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit |
| 61 | + "NT disk signature", and PP is a zero-filled hex representation of the |
| 62 | + 1-based partition number. |
| 63 | +#. PARTUUID=<UUID>/PARTNROFF=<int> to select a partition in relation to a |
| 64 | + partition with a known unique id. |
| 65 | +#. <major>:<minor> major and minor number of the device separated by a colon. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +It accepts the following variants for MTD device: |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +1. <device name> MTD device name. "pstore" is recommended. |
| 70 | +#. <device number> MTD device number. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +kmsg_size |
| 73 | +~~~~~~~~~ |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +The chunk size in KB for oops/panic front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. |
| 76 | +It's optional if you do not care oops/panic log. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +There are multiple chunks for oops/panic front-end depending on the remaining |
| 79 | +space except other pstore front-ends. |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +pstore/blk will log to oops/panic chunks one by one, and always overwrite the |
| 82 | +oldest chunk if there is no more free chunk. |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +pmsg_size |
| 85 | +~~~~~~~~~ |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +The chunk size in KB for pmsg front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. |
| 88 | +It's optional if you do not care pmsg log. |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +Unlike oops/panic front-end, there is only one chunk for pmsg front-end. |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +Pmsg is a user space accessible pstore object. Writes to */dev/pmsg0* are |
| 93 | +appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are available in |
| 94 | +*/sys/fs/pstore/pmsg-pstore-blk-0*. |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +console_size |
| 97 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +The chunk size in KB for console front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. |
| 100 | +It's optional if you do not care console log. |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +Similar to pmsg front-end, there is only one chunk for console front-end. |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +All log of console will be appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are |
| 105 | +available in */sys/fs/pstore/console-pstore-blk-0*. |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +ftrace_size |
| 108 | +~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +The chunk size in KB for ftrace front-end. It **MUST** be a multiple of 4. |
| 111 | +It's optional if you do not care console log. |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +Similar to oops front-end, there are multiple chunks for ftrace front-end |
| 114 | +depending on the count of cpu processors. Each chunk size is equal to |
| 115 | +ftrace_size / processors_count. |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | +All log of ftrace will be appended to the chunk. On reboot the contents are |
| 118 | +combined and available in */sys/fs/pstore/ftrace-pstore-blk-0*. |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +Persistent function tracing might be useful for debugging software or hardware |
| 121 | +related hangs. Here is an example of usage:: |
| 122 | + |
| 123 | + # mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore |
| 124 | + # mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/ |
| 125 | + # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/pstore/record_ftrace |
| 126 | + # reboot -f |
| 127 | + [...] |
| 128 | + # mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore |
| 129 | + # tail /sys/fs/pstore/ftrace-pstore-blk-0 |
| 130 | + CPU:0 ts:5914676 c0063828 c0063b94 call_cpuidle <- cpu_startup_entry+0x1b8/0x1e0 |
| 131 | + CPU:0 ts:5914678 c039ecdc c006385c cpuidle_enter_state <- call_cpuidle+0x44/0x48 |
| 132 | + CPU:0 ts:5914680 c039e9a0 c039ecf0 cpuidle_enter_freeze <- cpuidle_enter_state+0x304/0x314 |
| 133 | + CPU:0 ts:5914681 c0063870 c039ea30 sched_idle_set_state <- cpuidle_enter_state+0x44/0x314 |
| 134 | + CPU:1 ts:5916720 c0160f59 c015ee04 kernfs_unmap_bin_file <- __kernfs_remove+0x140/0x204 |
| 135 | + CPU:1 ts:5916721 c05ca625 c015ee0c __mutex_lock_slowpath <- __kernfs_remove+0x148/0x204 |
| 136 | + CPU:1 ts:5916723 c05c813d c05ca630 yield_to <- __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x314/0x358 |
| 137 | + CPU:1 ts:5916724 c05ca2d1 c05ca638 __ww_mutex_lock <- __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x31c/0x358 |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | +max_reason |
| 140 | +~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 141 | + |
| 142 | +Limiting which kinds of kmsg dumps are stored can be controlled via |
| 143 | +the ``max_reason`` value, as defined in include/linux/kmsg_dump.h's |
| 144 | +``enum kmsg_dump_reason``. For example, to store both Oopses and Panics, |
| 145 | +``max_reason`` should be set to 2 (KMSG_DUMP_OOPS), to store only Panics |
| 146 | +``max_reason`` should be set to 1 (KMSG_DUMP_PANIC). Setting this to 0 |
| 147 | +(KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF), means the reason filtering will be controlled by the |
| 148 | +``printk.always_kmsg_dump`` boot param: if unset, it'll be KMSG_DUMP_OOPS, |
| 149 | +otherwise KMSG_DUMP_MAX. |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +Configurations for driver |
| 152 | +------------------------- |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | +Only a block device driver cares about these configurations. A block device |
| 155 | +driver uses ``register_pstore_blk`` to register to pstore/blk. |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c |
| 158 | + :identifiers: register_pstore_blk |
| 159 | + |
| 160 | +A non-block device driver uses ``register_pstore_device`` with |
| 161 | +``struct pstore_device_info`` to register to pstore/blk. |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c |
| 164 | + :identifiers: register_pstore_device |
| 165 | + |
| 166 | +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_blk.h |
| 167 | + :identifiers: pstore_device_info |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +Compression and header |
| 170 | +---------------------- |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | +Block device is large enough for uncompressed oops data. Actually we do not |
| 173 | +recommend data compression because pstore/blk will insert some information into |
| 174 | +the first line of oops/panic data. For example:: |
| 175 | + |
| 176 | + Panic: Total 16 times |
| 177 | + |
| 178 | +It means that it's OOPS|Panic for the 16th time since the first booting. |
| 179 | +Sometimes the number of occurrences of oops|panic since the first booting is |
| 180 | +important to judge whether the system is stable. |
| 181 | + |
| 182 | +The following line is inserted by pstore filesystem. For example:: |
| 183 | + |
| 184 | + Oops#2 Part1 |
| 185 | + |
| 186 | +It means that it's OOPS for the 2nd time on the last boot. |
| 187 | + |
| 188 | +Reading the data |
| 189 | +---------------- |
| 190 | + |
| 191 | +The dump data can be read from the pstore filesystem. The format for these |
| 192 | +files is ``dmesg-pstore-blk-[N]`` for oops/panic front-end, |
| 193 | +``pmsg-pstore-blk-0`` for pmsg front-end and so on. The timestamp of the |
| 194 | +dump file records the trigger time. To delete a stored record from block |
| 195 | +device, simply unlink the respective pstore file. |
| 196 | + |
| 197 | +Attentions in panic read/write APIs |
| 198 | +----------------------------------- |
| 199 | + |
| 200 | +If on panic, the kernel is not going to run for much longer, the tasks will not |
| 201 | +be scheduled and most kernel resources will be out of service. It |
| 202 | +looks like a single-threaded program running on a single-core computer. |
| 203 | + |
| 204 | +The following points require special attention for panic read/write APIs: |
| 205 | + |
| 206 | +1. Can **NOT** allocate any memory. |
| 207 | + If you need memory, just allocate while the block driver is initializing |
| 208 | + rather than waiting until the panic. |
| 209 | +#. Must be polled, **NOT** interrupt driven. |
| 210 | + No task schedule any more. The block driver should delay to ensure the write |
| 211 | + succeeds, but NOT sleep. |
| 212 | +#. Can **NOT** take any lock. |
| 213 | + There is no other task, nor any shared resource; you are safe to break all |
| 214 | + locks. |
| 215 | +#. Just use CPU to transfer. |
| 216 | + Do not use DMA to transfer unless you are sure that DMA will not keep lock. |
| 217 | +#. Control registers directly. |
| 218 | + Please control registers directly rather than use Linux kernel resources. |
| 219 | + Do I/O map while initializing rather than wait until a panic occurs. |
| 220 | +#. Reset your block device and controller if necessary. |
| 221 | + If you are not sure of the state of your block device and controller when |
| 222 | + a panic occurs, you are safe to stop and reset them. |
| 223 | + |
| 224 | +pstore/blk supports psblk_blkdev_info(), which is defined in |
| 225 | +*linux/pstore_blk.h*, to get information of using block device, such as the |
| 226 | +device number, sector count and start sector of the whole disk. |
| 227 | + |
| 228 | +pstore block internals |
| 229 | +---------------------- |
| 230 | + |
| 231 | +For developer reference, here are all the important structures and APIs: |
| 232 | + |
| 233 | +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/zone.c |
| 234 | + :internal: |
| 235 | + |
| 236 | +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_zone.h |
| 237 | + :internal: |
| 238 | + |
| 239 | +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c |
| 240 | + :export: |
| 241 | + |
| 242 | +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_blk.h |
| 243 | + :internal: |
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