fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.
Build the crash memory range list by traversing through system memory during the first kernel before we register for firmware-assisted dump. After the successful dump registration, initialize the elfcore header and populate PT_LOAD program headers with crash memory ranges. The elfcore header is saved in the scratch area within the reserved memory. The scratch area starts at the end of the memory reserved for saving RMR region contents. The scratch area contains fadump crash info structure that contains magic number for fadump validation and physical address where the eflcore header can be found. This structure will also be used to pass some important crash info data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core header with correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. Since the firmware preserves the entire partition memory at the time of crash the contents of the scratch area will be preserved till second kernel boot. Since the memory dump exported through /proc/vmcore is in ELF format similar to kdump, it will help us to reuse the kdump infrastructure for dump capture and filtering. Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any sysfs interface while reading /proc/vmcore. NOTE: The current design implementation does not address a possibility of introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting compatibility. It's on TODO list to come up with better approach to address this. Reserved dump area start => +-------------------------------------+ | CPU state dump data | +-------------------------------------+ | HPTE region data | +-------------------------------------+ | RMR region data | Scratch area start => +-------------------------------------+ | fadump crash info structure { | | magic nummber | +------|---- elfcorehdr_addr | | | } | +----> +-------------------------------------+ | ELF core header | Reserved dump area end => +-------------------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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