On some ARMs at least the memory can be mapped pgprot_noncached()
and still be working for atomic operations. As pointed out by
Colin Cross <ccr...@android.com>, in some cases you do want to use
pgprot_noncached() if the SoC supports it to see a debug printk
just before a write hanging the system.

On ARMs, the atomic operations on strongly ordered memory are
implementation defined. So let's provide an optional kernel parameter
for configuring noncached memory, and use pgprot_writecombine() by
default.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherri...@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <an...@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccr...@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <o...@lixom.net>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <t...@atomide.com>
---
 Documentation/ramoops.txt  | 12 ++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/ram.c            | 13 +++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c       | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 include/linux/pstore_ram.h |  4 +++-
 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
index 69b3cac..2dab135 100644
--- a/Documentation/ramoops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
@@ -14,11 +14,18 @@ survive after a restart.
 
 1. Ramoops concepts
 
-Ramoops uses a predefined memory area to store the dump. The start and size of
-the memory area are set using two variables:
+Ramoops uses a predefined memory area to store the dump. The start and size
+and type of the memory area are set using three variables:
   * "mem_address" for the start
   * "mem_size" for the size. The memory size will be rounded down to a
   power of two.
+  * "mem_cached" to specifiy if the memory is cached or not.
+
+Note disabling "mem_cached" may not be supported on all architectures as
+pstore depends on atomic operations. At least on ARM, clearing "mem_cached"
+will cause the memory to be mapped strongly ordered. And atomic operations
+on strongly ordered memory are implementation defined, and won't work on
+many ARMs such as omap.
 
 The memory area is divided into "record_size" chunks (also rounded down to
 power of two) and each oops/panic writes a "record_size" chunk of
@@ -55,6 +62,7 @@ Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different 
manners:
 static struct ramoops_platform_data ramoops_data = {
         .mem_size               = <...>,
         .mem_address            = <...>,
+        .mem_cached             = <...>,
         .record_size            = <...>,
         .dump_oops              = <...>,
         .ecc                    = <...>,
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 3b57443..53ddcb2 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ module_param(mem_size, ulong, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_size,
                "size of reserved RAM used to store oops/panic logs");
 
+static unsigned int mem_cached = 1;
+module_param(mem_cached, uint, 0600);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_cached,
+               "set to 1 to use cached memory, 0 to use uncached (default 1)");
+
 static int dump_oops = 1;
 module_param(dump_oops, int, 0600);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dump_oops,
@@ -79,6 +84,7 @@ struct ramoops_context {
        struct persistent_ram_zone *fprz;
        phys_addr_t phys_addr;
        unsigned long size;
+       unsigned int cached;
        size_t record_size;
        size_t console_size;
        size_t ftrace_size;
@@ -358,7 +364,8 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(struct device *dev, struct 
ramoops_context *cxt,
                size_t sz = cxt->record_size;
 
                cxt->przs[i] = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, 0,
-                                                 &cxt->ecc_info);
+                                                 &cxt->ecc_info,
+                                                 cxt->cached);
                if (IS_ERR(cxt->przs[i])) {
                        err = PTR_ERR(cxt->przs[i]);
                        dev_err(dev, "failed to request mem region 
(0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
@@ -388,7 +395,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_prz(struct device *dev, struct 
ramoops_context *cxt,
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       *prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info);
+       *prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info, cxt->cached);
        if (IS_ERR(*prz)) {
                int err = PTR_ERR(*prz);
 
@@ -435,6 +442,7 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
        cxt->size = pdata->mem_size;
        cxt->phys_addr = pdata->mem_address;
+       cxt->cached = pdata->mem_cached;
        cxt->record_size = pdata->record_size;
        cxt->console_size = pdata->console_size;
        cxt->ftrace_size = pdata->ftrace_size;
@@ -564,6 +572,7 @@ static void ramoops_register_dummy(void)
 
        dummy_data->mem_size = mem_size;
        dummy_data->mem_address = mem_address;
+       dummy_data->mem_cached = 1;
        dummy_data->record_size = record_size;
        dummy_data->console_size = ramoops_console_size;
        dummy_data->ftrace_size = ramoops_ftrace_size;
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index 24f94b0..ae34cf6 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ void persistent_ram_zap(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
        persistent_ram_update_header_ecc(prz);
 }
 
-static void *persistent_ram_vmap(phys_addr_t start, size_t size)
+static void *persistent_ram_vmap(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
+               unsigned int cached)
 {
        struct page **pages;
        phys_addr_t page_start;
@@ -392,7 +393,10 @@ static void *persistent_ram_vmap(phys_addr_t start, size_t 
size)
        page_start = start - offset_in_page(start);
        page_count = DIV_ROUND_UP(size + offset_in_page(start), PAGE_SIZE);
 
-       prot = pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL);
+       if (cached)
+               prot = pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL);
+       else
+               prot = pgprot_noncached(PAGE_KERNEL);
 
        pages = kmalloc_array(page_count, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!pages) {
@@ -411,8 +415,11 @@ static void *persistent_ram_vmap(phys_addr_t start, size_t 
size)
        return vaddr;
 }
 
-static void *persistent_ram_iomap(phys_addr_t start, size_t size)
+static void *persistent_ram_iomap(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
+               unsigned int cached)
 {
+       void *va;
+
        if (!request_mem_region(start, size, "persistent_ram")) {
                pr_err("request mem region (0x%llx@0x%llx) failed\n",
                        (unsigned long long)size, (unsigned long long)start);
@@ -422,19 +429,24 @@ static void *persistent_ram_iomap(phys_addr_t start, 
size_t size)
        buffer_start_add = buffer_start_add_locked;
        buffer_size_add = buffer_size_add_locked;
 
-       return ioremap_wc(start, size);
+       if (cached)
+               va = ioremap_wc(start, size);
+       else
+               va = ioremap(start, size);
+
+       return va;
 }
 
 static int persistent_ram_buffer_map(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size,
-               struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
+               struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, int cached)
 {
        prz->paddr = start;
        prz->size = size;
 
        if (pfn_valid(start >> PAGE_SHIFT))
-               prz->vaddr = persistent_ram_vmap(start, size);
+               prz->vaddr = persistent_ram_vmap(start, size, cached);
        else
-               prz->vaddr = persistent_ram_iomap(start, size);
+               prz->vaddr = persistent_ram_iomap(start, size, cached);
 
        if (!prz->vaddr) {
                pr_err("%s: Failed to map 0x%llx pages at 0x%llx\n", __func__,
@@ -500,7 +512,8 @@ void persistent_ram_free(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
 }
 
 struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
-                       u32 sig, struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info)
+                       u32 sig, struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info,
+                       unsigned int cached)
 {
        struct persistent_ram_zone *prz;
        int ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -511,7 +524,7 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t 
start, size_t size,
                goto err;
        }
 
-       ret = persistent_ram_buffer_map(start, size, prz);
+       ret = persistent_ram_buffer_map(start, size, prz, cached);
        if (ret)
                goto err;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore_ram.h b/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
index 9974975..5cbbae6 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone {
 };
 
 struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
-                       u32 sig, struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info);
+                       u32 sig, struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info,
+                       unsigned int cached);
 void persistent_ram_free(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz);
 void persistent_ram_zap(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz);
 
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ ssize_t persistent_ram_ecc_string(struct persistent_ram_zone 
*prz,
 struct ramoops_platform_data {
        unsigned long   mem_size;
        unsigned long   mem_address;
+       unsigned int    mem_cached;
        unsigned long   record_size;
        unsigned long   console_size;
        unsigned long   ftrace_size;
-- 
2.1.0

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