Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: zynqmp: Add coredump support

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:14:48PM -0500, Tanmay Shah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your patch. Patch looks good to me.
> Please find some comments below.
> 
> On 3/16/24 1:16 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> > Supporting remoteproc coredump requires the platform-specific driver to
> > register coredump segments to be dumped. Do this by calling
> > rproc_coredump_add_segment for every carveout.
> > 
> > Also call rproc_coredump_set_elf_info when then rproc is created. If the
> > ELFCLASS parameter is not provided then coredump fails with an error.
> > Other drivers seem to pass EM_NONE for the machine argument but for me
> > this shows a warning in gdb. Pass EM_ARM because this is an ARM R5.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > Tests were done by triggering an deliberate crash using remoteproc
> > debugfs: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/remoteproc/remoteproc0/crash
> > 
> > This was tested using RPU apps which use RAM for everything so TCM dump
> > was not verified. The freertos-gdb script package showed credible data:
> > 
> > https://github.com/espressif/freertos-gdb
> 
> Thanks for this testing.
> 
> > 
> > The R5 cache is not flushed so RAM might be out of date which is
> > actually very bad because information most relevant to determining the
> > cause of a crash is lost. Possible workaround would be to flush caches
> > in some sort of R5 crash handler? I don't think Linux can do anything
> > about this limitation.
> > 
> 
> Correct Linux can't. One workaround is that R5 firmware can mark
> required memory regions as non-cachable in MPU setting. This way information
> loss can be avoided.
> 
> > The generated coredump doesn't contain registers, this seems to be a
> > limitation shared with other rproc coredumps. It's not clear how the apu
> > could access rpu registers on zynqmp, my only idea would be to use the
> > coresight dap but that sounds difficult.
> 
> Linux doesn't really have access to R5 control registers due to security.
> Instead EEMI calls to platform management controller are used to control R5.
> So R5 control register dump shouldn't needed.
> 
> Mathieu,
> I am okay to merge this patch.
>

Applied.

Thanks,
Mathieu

> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c
> > index 4395edea9a64..cfbd97b89c26 100644
> > --- a/drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c
> > @@ -484,10 +484,11 @@ static int add_mem_regions_carveout(struct rproc *rproc)
> >  			of_node_put(it.node);
> >  			return -ENOMEM;
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		rproc_add_carveout(rproc, rproc_mem);
> > +		rproc_coredump_add_segment(rproc, rmem->base, rmem->size);
> >  
> >  		dev_dbg(&rproc->dev, "reserved mem carveout %s addr=%llx, size=0x%llx",
> >  			it.node->name, rmem->base, rmem->size);
> >  		i++;
> >  	}
> > @@ -595,10 +596,11 @@ static int add_tcm_carveout_split_mode(struct rproc *rproc)
> >  			zynqmp_pm_release_node(pm_domain_id);
> >  			goto release_tcm_split;
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		rproc_add_carveout(rproc, rproc_mem);
> > +		rproc_coredump_add_segment(rproc, da, bank_size);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> >  
> >  release_tcm_split:
> > @@ -674,10 +676,11 @@ static int add_tcm_carveout_lockstep_mode(struct rproc *rproc)
> >  			goto release_tcm_lockstep;
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		/* If registration is success, add carveouts */
> >  		rproc_add_carveout(rproc, rproc_mem);
> > +		rproc_coredump_add_segment(rproc, da, bank_size);
> >  
> >  		dev_dbg(dev, "TCM carveout lockstep mode %s addr=0x%llx, da=0x%x, size=0x%lx",
> >  			bank_name, bank_addr, da, bank_size);
> >  	}
> >  
> > @@ -851,10 +854,12 @@ static struct zynqmp_r5_core *zynqmp_r5_add_rproc_core(struct device *cdev)
> >  	if (!r5_rproc) {
> >  		dev_err(cdev, "failed to allocate memory for rproc instance\n");
> >  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	rproc_coredump_set_elf_info(r5_rproc, ELFCLASS32, EM_ARM);
> > +
> >  	r5_rproc->auto_boot = false;
> >  	r5_core = r5_rproc->priv;
> >  	r5_core->dev = cdev;
> >  	r5_core->np = dev_of_node(cdev);
> >  	if (!r5_core->np) {
> 




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