Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] soc/arm64: qcom: add initial version of memory dump

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 23/10/2023 11:20, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
> Qualcomm memory dump driver is to cooperate with firmware, providing the
> hints(id and size) of storing useful debugging information into pre-allocated
> memory. Firmware then does the real data capture. The debugging information
> includes cache contents, internal memory, registers. 
> 
> The driver dynamically reserves memory and provides the hints(dump id and size)
> following specified protocols with firmware. After crash and warm reboot,
> firmware scans these information and stores contents into reserved memory
> accordingly. Firmware then enters into full dump mode which dumps whole DDR
> to host through USB.

How does it relate to minidump?

> 
> User then get full dump using PCAT and can parse out these informations.
> 
> Dump id and size are provided by bootconfig. The expected format of a
> bootconfig file is as follows:-
> memory_dump_config {
> 	<node name> {
> 		id = <id of HW component>
> 		size = <dump size of HW component>
> 	}
> }
> 
> for example:
> memory_dump_config {
>         c0_context_dump {
> 		id = 0
> 		size = 0x800
>         }
> }
> 
> Test based on 6.6-rc1.

I don't think so (or you miss yamllint).

$ git checkout v6.6-rc1
$ b4 am...
$ dt_binding_chec

qcom,mem-dump.yaml:5:10: [error] string value is redundantly quoted with
any quotes (quoted-strings)


Best regards,
Krzysztof