From 958502d836cf18c6f39bdb787b76d53839e4d8aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Vorontsov Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 06:20:25 -0700 Subject: pstore/ram: Add some more documentation and examples Suggested-by: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/ramoops.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ramoops.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/ramoops.txt index 4ba7db231cb2..59a74a8ee2e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/ramoops.txt +++ b/Documentation/ramoops.txt @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ corrupt, but usually it is restorable. Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different manners: 1. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described as before). + For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during boot + and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a machine + with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell the + kernel to use only the first 128 MB of memory, and place ECC-protected ramoops + region at 128 MB boundary: + "mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1" 2. Use a platform device and set the platform data. The parameters can then be set through that platform data. An example of doing that is: @@ -70,6 +76,14 @@ if (ret) { return ret; } +You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when +specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve() +very early in the architecture code, e.g.: + +#include + +memblock_reserve(ramoops_data.mem_address, ramoops_data.mem_size); + 3. Dump format The data dump begins with a header, currently defined as "====" followed by a -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b