[PATCH v2] pstore: Support already existing reserved-memory node

Daniel Golle daniel at makrotopia.org
Tue Apr 19 01:50:36 CEST 2022


Hi Detlev,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 02:46:21PM -0400, Detlev Casanova wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> The patch only checks the existence of the reserved-memory node.
> 
> I guess that before, adding the reserved-memory node failed and so nothing 
> else was happening. Now, the node is found and then, it adds the ramoops 
> subnode to it, making it double because it is already there in your case.
> 
> But that should not happen, because the fdt_add_subnode() function should fail 
> if the node is already present (like it was failing for reserved-memory).
> 
> I'm going to look into it. Can you send me the device tree taht you are using  
> (or at least the reserved-memory part) and u-boot config ?

Thank you for your reply and for taking a look at what's going on.

reserved-memory bits in dts:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/boot/uboot-mediatek/patches/050-mt7622-enable-pstore.patch

u-boot config:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/boot/uboot-mediatek/patches/404-add-bananapi_bpi-r64_defconfigs.patch


Cheers


Daniel

> 
> Detlev.
> 
> On Monday, April 11, 2022 7:00:20 P.M. EDT Daniel Golle wrote:
> > Hi Detlev,
> > 
> > I've recently tried to update U-Boot from 2022.01 to 2022.04 and
> > noticed a regression introduced by the commit below.
> > 
> > While the unwanted error message ("Add 'reserved-memory' node failed:
> > FDT_ERR_EXISTS") no longer appears, I now see a lengthy kernel stack
> > trace in Linux instead:
> > ...
> > [    0.008295] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
> > '/devices/platform/42ff0000.ramoops' [    0.008303] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm:
> > swapper/0 Tainted: G S                5.15.33 #0 [    0.008312] Hardware
> > name: Bananapi BPI-R64 (DT)
> > [    0.008318] Call trace:
> > [    0.008322]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x15c
> > [    0.008337]  show_stack+0x14/0x30
> > [    0.008345]  dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x7c
> > [    0.008355]  dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
> > [    0.008362]  sysfs_warn_dup+0x5c/0x74
> > [    0.008373]  sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xb0/0xc0
> > [    0.008381]  kobject_add_internal+0xbc/0x330
> > [    0.008392]  kobject_add+0x80/0xe0
> > [    0.008400]  device_add+0xd4/0x82c
> > [    0.008410]  of_device_add+0x4c/0x5c
> > [    0.008420]  of_platform_device_create_pdata+0xb8/0xf0
> > [    0.008428]  of_platform_default_populate_init+0x58/0xcc
> > [    0.008437]  do_one_initcall+0x4c/0x1b0
> > [    0.008444]  kernel_init_freeable+0x230/0x294
> > [    0.008456]  kernel_init+0x20/0x120
> > [    0.008463]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> > [    0.008471] kobject_add_internal failed for 42ff0000.ramoops with
> > -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same
> > directory. ...
> > 
> > I assume that fdt_find_or_add_subnode() doesn't behave as expected and
> > apparently adds a duplicate node having the same name.
> > The pstore/ramoops reserved-memory is already defined in the fdt
> > contained in the FIT image (for compatibility with older U-Boot which
> > didn't care about pstore), so it should be not added again.
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 11:02:30AM -0500, Detlev Casanova wrote:
> > > The pstore command tries to create a reserved-memory node but fails if
> > > 
> > > it is already present with:
> > >     Add 'reserved-memory' node failed: FDT_ERR_EXISTS
> > > 
> > > This patch creates the node only if it does not exist and adapts the reg
> > > values sizes depending on already present #address-cells and #size-cells
> > > values.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova at collabora.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Changes in v2:
> > >  - Move declarations at beginning of function
> > >  - Use if instead of switch
> > >  - Reword Subject
> > >  
> > >  cmd/pstore.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > >  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/cmd/pstore.c b/cmd/pstore.c
> > > index 9fac8c7218..cd6f6feb2f 100644
> > > --- a/cmd/pstore.c
> > > +++ b/cmd/pstore.c
> > > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> > > 
> > >  #include <mapmem.h>
> > >  #include <memalign.h>
> > >  #include <part.h>
> > > 
> > > +#include <fdt_support.h>
> > > 
> > >  struct persistent_ram_buffer {
> > >  
> > >  	u32    sig;
> > > 
> > > @@ -485,6 +486,8 @@ void fdt_fixup_pstore(void *blob)
> > > 
> > >  {
> > >  
> > >  	char node[32];
> > >  	int  nodeoffset;	/* node offset from libfdt */
> > > 
> > > +	u32 addr_cells;
> > > +	u32 size_cells;
> > > 
> > >  	nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(blob, "/");
> > >  	if (nodeoffset < 0) {
> > > 
> > > @@ -493,14 +496,18 @@ void fdt_fixup_pstore(void *blob)
> > > 
> > >  		return;
> > >  	
> > >  	}
> > > 
> > > -	nodeoffset = fdt_add_subnode(blob, nodeoffset, "reserved-memory");
> > > +	nodeoffset = fdt_find_or_add_subnode(blob, nodeoffset,
> > > "reserved-memory");> 
> > >  	if (nodeoffset < 0) {
> > >  	
> > >  		log_err("Add 'reserved-memory' node failed: %s\n",
> > >  		
> > >  				fdt_strerror(nodeoffset));
> > >  		
> > >  		return;
> > >  	
> > >  	}
> > > 
> > > -	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "#address-cells", 2);
> > > -	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "#size-cells", 2);
> > > +
> > > +	addr_cells = fdt_getprop_u32_default_node(blob, nodeoffset, 0,
> > > "#address-cells", 2); +	size_cells = fdt_getprop_u32_default_node(blob,
> > > nodeoffset, 0, "#size-cells", 2); +	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset,
> > > "#address-cells", addr_cells); +	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset,
> > > "#size-cells", size_cells);
> > > +
> > > 
> > >  	fdt_setprop_empty(blob, nodeoffset, "ranges");
> > >  	
> > >  	sprintf(node, "ramoops@%llx", (unsigned long long)pstore_addr);
> > > 
> > > @@ -509,14 +516,36 @@ void fdt_fixup_pstore(void *blob)
> > > 
> > >  		log_err("Add '%s' node failed: %s\n", node, 
> fdt_strerror(nodeoffset));
> > >  		return;
> > >  	
> > >  	}
> > > 
> > > +
> > > 
> > >  	fdt_setprop_string(blob, nodeoffset, "compatible", "ramoops");
> > > 
> > > -	fdt_setprop_u64(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", pstore_addr);
> > > -	fdt_appendprop_u64(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", pstore_length);
> > > +
> > > +	if (addr_cells == 1) {
> > > +		fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", pstore_addr);
> > > +	} else if (addr_cells == 2) {
> > > +		fdt_setprop_u64(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", pstore_addr);
> > > +	} else {
> > > +		log_err("Unsupported #address-cells: %u\n", 
> addr_cells);
> > > +		goto clean_ramoops;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	if (size_cells == 1) {
> > > +		// Let's consider that the pstore_length fits in a 32 
> bits value
> > > +		fdt_appendprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", 
> pstore_length);
> > > +	} else if (size_cells == 2) {
> > > +		fdt_appendprop_u64(blob, nodeoffset, "reg", 
> pstore_length);
> > > +	} else {
> > > +		log_err("Unsupported #size-cells: %u\n", addr_cells);
> > > +		goto clean_ramoops;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > 
> > >  	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "record-size", 
> pstore_record_size);
> > >  	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "console-size", 
> pstore_console_size);
> > >  	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "ftrace-size", 
> pstore_ftrace_size);
> > >  	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "pmsg-size", pstore_pmsg_size);
> > >  	fdt_setprop_u32(blob, nodeoffset, "ecc-size", pstore_ecc_size);
> > > 
> > > +
> > > +clean_ramoops:
> > > +	fdt_del_node_and_alias(blob, node);
> > > 
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  U_BOOT_CMD(pstore, 10, 0, do_pstore,
> 
> 
> 
> 


More information about the U-Boot mailing list