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diff --git a/Documentation/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/ramoops.txt index 69b3cac4749d..5d8675615e59 100644 --- a/Documentation/ramoops.txt +++ b/Documentation/ramoops.txt @@ -14,11 +14,19 @@ 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_type" to specifiy if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine). + +Typically the default value of mem_type=0 should be used as that sets the pstore +mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting mem_type=1 attempts to use +pgprot_noncached, which only works on some platforms. This is because pstore +depends on atomic operations. At least on ARM, pgprot_noncached causes 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 omaps. 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 +63,7 @@ Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different manners: static struct ramoops_platform_data ramoops_data = { .mem_size = <...>, .mem_address = <...>, + .mem_type = <...>, .record_size = <...>, .dump_oops = <...>, .ecc = <...>, |