device coredump: add new device coredump class

Many devices run firmware and/or complex hardware, and most of that
can have bugs. When it misbehaves, however, it is often much harder
to debug than software running on the host.

Introduce a "device coredump" mechanism to allow dumping internal
device/firmware state through a generalized mechanism. As devices
are different and information needed can vary accordingly, this
doesn't prescribe a file format - it just provides mechanism to
get data to be able to capture it in a generalized way (e.g. in
distributions.)

The dumped data will be readable in sysfs in the virtual device's
data file under /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd*/. Writing to it will
free the data and remove the device, as does a 5-minute timeout.

Note that generalized capturing of such data may result in privacy
issues, so users generally need to be involved. In order to allow
certain users/system integrators/... to disable the feature at all,
introduce a Kconfig option to override the drivers that would like
to have the feature.

For now, this provides two ways of dumping data:
 1) with a vmalloc'ed area, that is then given to the subsystem
    and freed after retrieval or timeout
 2) with a generalized reader/free function method

We could/should add more options, e.g. a list of pages, since the
vmalloc area is very limited on some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/devcoredump.h b/include/linux/devcoredump.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c0a360e99f64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/devcoredump.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#ifndef __DEVCOREDUMP_H
+#define __DEVCOREDUMP_H
+
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
+void dev_coredumpv(struct device *dev, const void *data, size_t datalen,
+		   gfp_t gfp);
+
+void dev_coredumpm(struct device *dev, struct module *owner,
+		   const void *data, size_t datalen, gfp_t gfp,
+		   ssize_t (*read)(char *buffer, loff_t offset, size_t count,
+				   const void *data, size_t datalen),
+		   void (*free)(const void *data));
+#else
+static inline void dev_coredumpv(struct device *dev, const void *data,
+				 size_t datalen, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	vfree(data);
+}
+
+static inline void
+dev_coredumpm(struct device *dev, struct module *owner,
+	      const void *data, size_t datalen, gfp_t gfp,
+	      ssize_t (*read)(char *buffer, loff_t offset, size_t count,
+			      const void *data, size_t datalen),
+	      void (*free)(const void *data))
+{
+	free(data);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP */
+
+#endif /* __DEVCOREDUMP_H */