The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:
1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with bu
Register callback to collect hardware/firmware dumps in second kernel
before hardware/firmware is initialized. The dumps for each device
will be available as elf notes in /proc/vmcore in second kernel.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar
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v5:
- No changes.
v4:
- No c
Update read and mmap logic to append device dumps as additional notes
before the other elf notes. We add device dumps before other elf notes
because the other elf notes may not fill the elf notes buffer
completely and we will end up with zero-filled data between the elf
notes and the device dumps.
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 stat
