On production servers running variety of workloads over time, kernel panic can happen sporadically after days or even months. It is important to collect as much debug logs as possible to root cause and fix the problem, that may not be easy to reproduce. Snapshot of underlying hardware/firmware state (like register dump, firmware logs, adapter memory, etc.), at the time of kernel panic will be very helpful while debugging the culprit device driver. This series of patches add new generic framework that enable device drivers to collect device specific snapshot of the hardware/firmware state of the underlying device at the time of kernel panic. The collected logs are appended to vmcore along with details, such as start address and length of the logs, which are required for extraction during post-analysis. Device drivers can use crash_driver_dump_register() to register their callback that collects underlying device specific hardware/firmware logs during kernel panic (i.e. before booting into the second kernel). Drivers can unregister with crash_driver_dump_unregister(). To extract the device specific hardware/firmware logs using crash: crash> help -D | grep DRIVERDUMP DRIVERDUMP=(cxgb4_0000:02:00.4, ffffb131090bd000, 37782968) crash> rd ffffb131090bd000 37782968 -r hardware.log 37782968 bytes copied from 0xffffb131090bd000 to hardware.log Patch 1 adds API to allow drivers to register callback to collect the device specific hardware/firmware logs. Patch 2 shows a cxgb4 driver example using the API to collect hardware/firmware logs during kernel panic. Suggestions and feedback will be much appreciated. Thanks, Rahul Rahul Lakkireddy (2): kernel/crash_core: add API to collect hardware dump in kernel panic cxgb4: collect hardware dump in kernel panic drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4.h | 6 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.h | 4 + drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 12 +++ include/linux/crash_core.h | 33 ++++++++ kernel/crash_core.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/kexec_core.c | 1 + 7 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.14.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
