pstore-ram: Allow optional mapping with pgprot_noncached

On some ARMs the memory can be mapped pgprot_noncached() and still
be working for atomic operations. As pointed out by Colin Cross
<ccross@android.com>, in some cases you do want to use
pgprot_noncached() if the SoC supports it to see a debug printk
just before a write hanging the system.

On ARMs, the atomic operations on strongly ordered memory are
implementation defined. So let's provide an optional kernel parameter
for configuring pgprot_noncached(), and use pgprot_writecombine() by
default.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index ec881b3..2f389ce5 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ module_param(mem_size, ulong, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_size,
 		"size of reserved RAM used to store oops/panic logs");
 
+static unsigned int mem_type;
+module_param(mem_type, uint, 0600);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_type,
+		"set to 1 to try to use unbuffered memory (default 0)");
+
 static int dump_oops = 1;
 module_param(dump_oops, int, 0600);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dump_oops,
@@ -79,6 +84,7 @@ struct ramoops_context {
 	struct persistent_ram_zone *fprz;
 	phys_addr_t phys_addr;
 	unsigned long size;
+	unsigned int memtype;
 	size_t record_size;
 	size_t console_size;
 	size_t ftrace_size;
@@ -366,7 +372,8 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(struct device *dev, struct ramoops_context *cxt,
 		size_t sz = cxt->record_size;
 
 		cxt->przs[i] = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, 0,
-						  &cxt->ecc_info);
+						  &cxt->ecc_info,
+						  cxt->memtype);
 		if (IS_ERR(cxt->przs[i])) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(cxt->przs[i]);
 			dev_err(dev, "failed to request mem region (0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
@@ -396,7 +403,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_prz(struct device *dev, struct ramoops_context *cxt,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	*prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info);
+	*prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info, cxt->memtype);
 	if (IS_ERR(*prz)) {
 		int err = PTR_ERR(*prz);
 
@@ -443,6 +450,7 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	cxt->size = pdata->mem_size;
 	cxt->phys_addr = pdata->mem_address;
+	cxt->memtype = pdata->mem_type;
 	cxt->record_size = pdata->record_size;
 	cxt->console_size = pdata->console_size;
 	cxt->ftrace_size = pdata->ftrace_size;
@@ -572,6 +580,7 @@ static void ramoops_register_dummy(void)
 
 	dummy_data->mem_size = mem_size;
 	dummy_data->mem_address = mem_address;
+	dummy_data->mem_type = 0;
 	dummy_data->record_size = record_size;
 	dummy_data->console_size = ramoops_console_size;
 	dummy_data->ftrace_size = ramoops_ftrace_size;