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[v3,03/18] docs: qcom: Add qualcomm minidump guide

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Mukesh Ojha May 3, 2023, 5:02 p.m. UTC
Add the qualcomm minidump guide for the users which
tries to cover the dependency and the way to test
and collect minidump on Qualcomm supported platforms.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 246 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst

Comments

Mukesh Ojha May 25, 2023, 3:59 p.m. UTC | #1
On 5/14/2023 12:16 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/3/23 10:02, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>> Add the qualcomm minidump guide for the users which
>> tries to cover the dependency and the way to test
>> and collect minidump on Qualcomm supported platforms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 246 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..062c797
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
>> @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
>> +Qualcomm Minidump Feature
>> +=========================
>> +
>> +Introduction
>> +------------
>> +
>> +Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined
>> +data for first level of debugging on end user devices running on
>> +Qualcomm SoCs. It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC)
>> +or subsystem part of SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and
>> +software bugs. Hence, the ability to collect accurate data is only
>> +a best-effort. The data collected could be invalid or corrupted, data
>> +collection itself could fail, and so on.
>> +
>> +Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating
>> +full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's
> 
>                 RAM dumps for {post-mortem or postmortem} debugging.
> 
> 
>> +however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump
>> +mechanism provides the means for selecting region should be included in
>> +the ramdump.
>> +
>> +::
>> +
>> +   +-----------------------------------------------+
>> +   |   DDR                       +-------------+   |
>> +   |                             |      SS0-ToC|   |
>> +   | +----------------+     +----------------+ |   |
>> +   | |Shared memory   |     |         SS1-ToC| |   |
>> +   | |(SMEM)          |     |                | |   |
>> +   | |                | +-->|--------+       | |   |
>> +   | |G-ToC           | |   | SS-ToC  \      | |   |
>> +   | |+-------------+ | |   | +-----------+  | |   |
>> +   | ||-------------| | |   | |-----------|  | |   |
>> +   | || SS0-ToC     | | | +-|<|SS1 region1|  | |   |
>> +   | ||-------------| | | | | |-----------|  | |   |
>> +   | || SS1-ToC     |-|>+ | | |SS1 region2|  | |   |
>> +   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
>> +   | || SS2-ToC     | |   | | |  ...      |  | |   |
>> +   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
>> +   | ||  ...        | |   |-|<|SS1 regionN|  | |   |
>> +   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
>> +   | || SSn-ToC     | |   | | +-----------+  | |   |
>> +   | |+-------------+ |   | |                | |   |
>> +   | |                |   | |----------------| |   |
>> +   | |                |   +>|  regionN       | |   |
>> +   | |                |   | |----------------| |   |
>> +   | +----------------+   | |                | |   |
>> +   |                      | |----------------| |   |
>> +   |                      +>|  region1       | |   |
>> +   |                        |----------------| |   |
>> +   |                        |                | |   |
>> +   |                        |----------------|-+   |
>> +   |                        |  region5       |     |
>> +   |                        |----------------|     |
>> +   |                        |                |     |
>> +   |  Region information    +----------------+     |
>> +   | +---------------+                             |
>> +   | |region name    |                             |
>> +   | |---------------|                             |
>> +   | |region address |                             |
>> +   | |---------------|                             |
>> +   | |region size    |                             |
>> +   | +---------------+                             |
>> +   +-----------------------------------------------+
>> +       G-ToC: Global table of content
> 
>                                   contents
> ?
> 
>> +       SS-ToC: Subsystem table of content
> 
>                                       contents
> ?
> 
>> +       SS0-SSn: Subsystem numbered from 0 to n
>> +
>> +The core of minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot firmware code.
>> +It initializes shared memory(SMEM), which is a part of DDR and
> 
>                           memory (SMEM),
> 
>> +allocates a small section of it to minidump table i.e also called
> 
>                                                 table, i.e.
> 
>> +global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) has
> 
>                     contents
> 
>> +their own table of segments to be included in the minidump, all
> 
>     its own table
> 
>> +references from a descriptor in SMEM (G-ToC). Each segment/region has
>> +some details like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it
> 
>                                                  its
> 
>> +could be anywhere scattered in the DDR.
>> +
>> +Minidump kernel driver concept
>> +------------------------------
>> +
>> +Qualcomm minidump kernel driver adds the capability to add linux region
> 
>                                                                Linux
> 
>> +to be dumped as part of ram dump collection. At the moment, shared memory
> 
>                             RAM
> 
>> +driver creates plaform device for minidump driver and give a means to
> 
>                    platform
> 
>> +APSS minidump to initialize itself on probe.
>> +
>> +This driver provides ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` and
>> +``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` API's to register and unregister
>> +apss minidump region. It also gives a mechanism to update physical/virtual
> 
>     APSS
> 
>> +address for the client whose addresses keeps on changing e.g Current stack
> 
>                                                     changing, e.g., current stack
> 
>> +address of task keep on changing on context switch for each core. So these
> 
>                     keeps
> 
>> +clients can update their addresses with ``qcom_apss_minidump_update_region``
>> +API.
>> +
>> +The driver also supports registration for the clients who came before
>> +minidump driver was initialized. It maintains pending list of clients
>> +who came before minidump and once minidump is initialized it registers
>> +them in one go.
>> +
>> +To simplify post mortem debugging, driver creates and maintain an ELF
> 
> choose one:    postmortem or post-mortem
> 
>> +header as first region that gets updated each time a new region gets
>> +registered.
>> +
>> +The solution supports extracting the ramdump/minidump produced either
> 
>                                          RAM dump/minidump
> 
>> +over USB or stored to an attached storage device.
>> +
>> +Dependency of minidump kernel driver
>> +------------------------------------
>> +
>> +It is to note that whole of minidump thing depends on Qualcomm boot
> 
> s/thing //
> 
>> +firmware whether it supports minidump or not. So, if the minidump
>> +smem id is present in shared memory, it indicates that minidump
> 
>     SMEM ID
> 
>> +is supported from boot firmware and it is possible to dump linux
> 
>                                                                Linux
> 
>> +(APSS) region as part of minidump collection.
>> +
>> +How a kernel client driver can register region with minidump
>> +------------------------------------------------------------
>> +
>> +Client driver can use ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` API's to
>> +register and ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` to unregister
>> +their region from minidump driver.
>> +
>> +Client need to fill their region by filling qcom_apss_minidump_region
> 
>            needs
> 
>> +structure object which consist of the region name, region's
> 
>                            consists
> 
>> +virtual and physical address and its size.
>> +
>> +Below is one sample client driver snippet which try to allocate
> 
>                                                     tries
> 
>> +a region from kernel heap of certain size and it writes a certain
>> +known pattern (that can help in verification after collection
>> +that we got the exact pattern, what we wrote) and registers it with
>> +minidump.
>> +
>> + .. code-block:: c
>> +
>> +  #include <soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.h>
>> +  [...]
>> +
>> +
>> +  [... inside a function ...]
>> +  struct qcom_apss_minidump_region region;
>> +
>> +  [...]
>> +
>> +  client_mem_region = kzalloc(region_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +  if (!client_mem_region)
>> +	return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +  [... Just write a pattern ...]
>> +  memset(client_mem_region, 0xAB, region_size);
>> +
>> +  [... Fill up the region object ...]
>> +  strlcpy(region.name, "REGION_A", sizeof(region.name));
>> +  region.virt_addr = client_mem_region;
>> +  region.phys_addr = virt_to_phys(client_mem_region);
>> +  region.size = region_size;
>> +
>> +  ret = qcom_apss_minidump_region_register(&region);
>> +  if (ret < 0) {
>> +	pr_err("failed to add region in minidump: err: %d\n", ret);
>> +	return ret;
>> +  }
>> +
>> +  [...]
>> +
>> +
>> +Test
>> +----
>> +
>> +Existing Qualcomm devices already supports entire ddr dump (also called
> 
>                                                       DDR
> 
>> +full dump) by writing appropriate value to Qualcomm's top control and
>> +status register(tcsr) in driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c .
> 
>            register (tcsr)
> 
>> +
>> +SCM device Tree bindings required to support download mode
>> +For example (sm8450) ::
>> +
>> +	/ {
>> +
>> +	[...]
>> +
>> +		firmware {
>> +			scm: scm {
>> +				compatible = "qcom,scm-sm8450", "qcom,scm";
>> +				[... tcsr register ... ]
>> +				qcom,dload-mode = <&tcsr 0x13000>;
>> +
>> +				[...]
>> +			};
>> +		};
>> +
>> +	[...]
>> +
>> +		soc: soc@0 {
>> +
>> +			[...]
>> +
>> +			tcsr: syscon@1fc0000 {
>> +				compatible = "qcom,sm8450-tcsr", "syscon";
>> +				reg = <0x0 0x1fc0000 0x0 0x30000>;
>> +			};
>> +
>> +			[...]
>> +		};
>> +	[...]
>> +
>> +	};
>> +
>> +User of minidump can pass qcom_scm.download_mode="mini" to kernel
>> +commandline to set the current download mode to minidump.
>> +Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
>> +where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
> 
>                  DDR
> 
>> +will collect minidump along with fulldump.
>> +
>> +Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
>> +
>> +::
>> +	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
>> +
>> +Once the download mode is set, any kind of crash will make the device collect
>> +respective dump as per set download mode.
>> +
>> +Dump collection
>> +---------------
>> +
>> +The solution supports extracting the minidump produced either over USB or
>> +stored to an attached storage device.
>> +
>> +By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
>> +running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
>> +a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
> 
>                           starting
> 
>> +in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
>> +md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
>> +whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
>> +so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
>> +can be seen just opening the binary file.
>> +
>> +To collect the dump to attached storage type, one need to write appropriate
> 
>                                                       needs
> 
>> +value to IMEM register, in that case dumps are collected in rawdump
>> +partition on the target device itself.
>> +
>> +One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
> 
>         needs
> 
>> +save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
>> +can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
> 
>            passed                  dexter.exe (Qualcomm tool)
> 
>> +this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
>> +was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
> 
>                USB, i.e.                   regions
> 
> 
>> +starts with md_*.
>> +
>> +Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
>> +scope of this document.
> 


Thanks for the review, applied the change for the next version.

-- Mukesh
Mukesh Ojha May 25, 2023, 4 p.m. UTC | #2
On 5/8/2023 3:31 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:32:17PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>   Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst | 246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 246 insertions(+)
> 
> You forget to add toctree entry:
> 
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
> index 43ea35613dfcd4..251d070486c2ab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
> @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
>      perf-security
>      pm/index
>      pnp
> +   qcom_minidump
>      rapidio
>      ras
>      rtc
> 
>> +Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
>> +
>> +::
>> +	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
> 
> The snippet above isn't rendered to code block, so I have to fix it up:
> 
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> index 062c797e90d9cf..408fe1beed1b78 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> @@ -208,9 +208,8 @@ Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
>   where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
>   will collect minidump along with fulldump.
>   
> -Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
> +Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump::
>   
> -::
>   	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
>   
>   Once the download mode is set, any kind of crash will make the device collect
> 
>> +By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
>> +running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
>> +a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
>> +in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
>> +md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
>> +whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
>> +so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
>> +can be seen just opening the binary file.
>> +
>> <snipped> ...
>> +One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
>> +save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
>> +can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
>> +this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
>> +was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
>> +starts with md_*.
>> +
>> +Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
>> +scope of this document.
> 
> There is inconsistency on inlining code keywords, so I have to inline
> the rest:
> 
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> index 408fe1beed1b78..117e61ef9fde67 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Client driver can use ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` API's to
>   register and ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` to unregister
>   their region from minidump driver.
>   
> -Client need to fill their region by filling qcom_apss_minidump_region
> +Client need to fill their region by filling ``qcom_apss_minidump_region``
>   structure object which consist of the region name, region's
>   virtual and physical address and its size.
>   
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Test
>   
>   Existing Qualcomm devices already supports entire ddr dump (also called
>   full dump) by writing appropriate value to Qualcomm's top control and
> -status register(tcsr) in driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c .
> +status register(tcsr) in ``driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c``.
>   
>   SCM device Tree bindings required to support download mode
>   For example (sm8450) ::
> @@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ For example (sm8450) ::
>   
>   	};
>   
> -User of minidump can pass qcom_scm.download_mode="mini" to kernel
> +User of minidump can pass ``qcom_scm.download_mode="mini"`` to kernel
>   commandline to set the current download mode to minidump.
> -Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
> -where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
> +Similarly, ``"full"`` is passed to set the download mode to full dump
> +where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it ``"full,mini"``
>   will collect minidump along with fulldump.
>   
>   Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump::
> @@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ stored to an attached storage device.
>   
>   By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
>   running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
> -a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
> +a set of binary blobs starts with name ``md_*`` in PCAT configured directory
>   in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
> -md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
> +``md_REGION_A.BIN``. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
>   whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
>   so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
>   can be seen just opening the binary file.
> @@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ partition on the target device itself.
>   
>   One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
>   save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
> -can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
> +can be pass it to another tool (``dexter.exe`` [Qualcomm tool]) which converts
>   this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
>   was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
> -starts with md_*.
> +starts with ``md_*``.
>   
> -Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
> +Replacing the ``dexter.exe`` with some open source tool can be added as future
>   scope of this document.

Thanks for the review and the shared diffs, have applied the changes for 
the next version.

-- Mukesh

> 
> Thanks.
>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..062c797
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/qcom_minidump.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@ 
+Qualcomm Minidump Feature
+=========================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Minidump is a best effort mechanism to collect useful and predefined
+data for first level of debugging on end user devices running on
+Qualcomm SoCs. It is built on the premise that System on Chip (SoC)
+or subsystem part of SoC crashes, due to a range of hardware and
+software bugs. Hence, the ability to collect accurate data is only
+a best-effort. The data collected could be invalid or corrupted, data
+collection itself could fail, and so on.
+
+Qualcomm devices in engineering mode provides a mechanism for generating
+full system ramdumps for post mortem debugging. But in some cases it's
+however not feasible to capture the entire content of RAM. The minidump
+mechanism provides the means for selecting region should be included in
+the ramdump.
+
+::
+
+   +-----------------------------------------------+
+   |   DDR                       +-------------+   |
+   |                             |      SS0-ToC|   |
+   | +----------------+     +----------------+ |   |
+   | |Shared memory   |     |         SS1-ToC| |   |
+   | |(SMEM)          |     |                | |   |
+   | |                | +-->|--------+       | |   |
+   | |G-ToC           | |   | SS-ToC  \      | |   |
+   | |+-------------+ | |   | +-----------+  | |   |
+   | ||-------------| | |   | |-----------|  | |   |
+   | || SS0-ToC     | | | +-|<|SS1 region1|  | |   |
+   | ||-------------| | | | | |-----------|  | |   |
+   | || SS1-ToC     |-|>+ | | |SS1 region2|  | |   |
+   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
+   | || SS2-ToC     | |   | | |  ...      |  | |   |
+   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
+   | ||  ...        | |   |-|<|SS1 regionN|  | |   |
+   | ||-------------| |   | | |-----------|  | |   |
+   | || SSn-ToC     | |   | | +-----------+  | |   |
+   | |+-------------+ |   | |                | |   |
+   | |                |   | |----------------| |   |
+   | |                |   +>|  regionN       | |   |
+   | |                |   | |----------------| |   |
+   | +----------------+   | |                | |   |
+   |                      | |----------------| |   |
+   |                      +>|  region1       | |   |
+   |                        |----------------| |   |
+   |                        |                | |   |
+   |                        |----------------|-+   |
+   |                        |  region5       |     |
+   |                        |----------------|     |
+   |                        |                |     |
+   |  Region information    +----------------+     |
+   | +---------------+                             |
+   | |region name    |                             |
+   | |---------------|                             |
+   | |region address |                             |
+   | |---------------|                             |
+   | |region size    |                             |
+   | +---------------+                             |
+   +-----------------------------------------------+
+       G-ToC: Global table of content
+       SS-ToC: Subsystem table of content
+       SS0-SSn: Subsystem numbered from 0 to n
+
+The core of minidump feature is part of Qualcomm's boot firmware code.
+It initializes shared memory(SMEM), which is a part of DDR and
+allocates a small section of it to minidump table i.e also called
+global table of content (G-ToC). Each subsystem (APSS, ADSP, ...) has
+their own table of segments to be included in the minidump, all
+references from a descriptor in SMEM (G-ToC). Each segment/region has
+some details like name, physical address and it's size etc. and it
+could be anywhere scattered in the DDR.
+
+Minidump kernel driver concept
+------------------------------
+
+Qualcomm minidump kernel driver adds the capability to add linux region
+to be dumped as part of ram dump collection. At the moment, shared memory
+driver creates plaform device for minidump driver and give a means to
+APSS minidump to initialize itself on probe.
+
+This driver provides ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` and
+``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` API's to register and unregister
+apss minidump region. It also gives a mechanism to update physical/virtual
+address for the client whose addresses keeps on changing e.g Current stack
+address of task keep on changing on context switch for each core. So these
+clients can update their addresses with ``qcom_apss_minidump_update_region``
+API.
+
+The driver also supports registration for the clients who came before
+minidump driver was initialized. It maintains pending list of clients
+who came before minidump and once minidump is initialized it registers
+them in one go.
+
+To simplify post mortem debugging, driver creates and maintain an ELF
+header as first region that gets updated each time a new region gets
+registered.
+
+The solution supports extracting the ramdump/minidump produced either
+over USB or stored to an attached storage device.
+
+Dependency of minidump kernel driver
+------------------------------------
+
+It is to note that whole of minidump thing depends on Qualcomm boot
+firmware whether it supports minidump or not. So, if the minidump
+smem id is present in shared memory, it indicates that minidump
+is supported from boot firmware and it is possible to dump linux
+(APSS) region as part of minidump collection.
+
+How a kernel client driver can register region with minidump
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Client driver can use ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_register`` API's to
+register and ``qcom_apss_minidump_region_unregister`` to unregister
+their region from minidump driver.
+
+Client need to fill their region by filling qcom_apss_minidump_region
+structure object which consist of the region name, region's
+virtual and physical address and its size.
+
+Below is one sample client driver snippet which try to allocate
+a region from kernel heap of certain size and it writes a certain
+known pattern (that can help in verification after collection
+that we got the exact pattern, what we wrote) and registers it with
+minidump.
+
+ .. code-block:: c
+
+  #include <soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.h>
+  [...]
+
+
+  [... inside a function ...]
+  struct qcom_apss_minidump_region region;
+
+  [...]
+
+  client_mem_region = kzalloc(region_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+  if (!client_mem_region)
+	return -ENOMEM;
+
+  [... Just write a pattern ...]
+  memset(client_mem_region, 0xAB, region_size);
+
+  [... Fill up the region object ...]
+  strlcpy(region.name, "REGION_A", sizeof(region.name));
+  region.virt_addr = client_mem_region;
+  region.phys_addr = virt_to_phys(client_mem_region);
+  region.size = region_size;
+
+  ret = qcom_apss_minidump_region_register(&region);
+  if (ret < 0) {
+	pr_err("failed to add region in minidump: err: %d\n", ret);
+	return ret;
+  }
+
+  [...]
+
+
+Test
+----
+
+Existing Qualcomm devices already supports entire ddr dump (also called
+full dump) by writing appropriate value to Qualcomm's top control and
+status register(tcsr) in driver/firmware/qcom_scm.c .
+
+SCM device Tree bindings required to support download mode
+For example (sm8450) ::
+
+	/ {
+
+	[...]
+
+		firmware {
+			scm: scm {
+				compatible = "qcom,scm-sm8450", "qcom,scm";
+				[... tcsr register ... ]
+				qcom,dload-mode = <&tcsr 0x13000>;
+
+				[...]
+			};
+		};
+
+	[...]
+
+		soc: soc@0 {
+
+			[...]
+
+			tcsr: syscon@1fc0000 {
+				compatible = "qcom,sm8450-tcsr", "syscon";
+				reg = <0x0 0x1fc0000 0x0 0x30000>;
+			};
+
+			[...]
+		};
+	[...]
+
+	};
+
+User of minidump can pass qcom_scm.download_mode="mini" to kernel
+commandline to set the current download mode to minidump.
+Similarly, "full" is passed to set the download mode to full dump
+where entire ddr dump will be collected while setting it "full,mini"
+will collect minidump along with fulldump.
+
+Writing to sysfs node can also be used to set the mode to minidump.
+
+::
+	echo "mini" > /sys/module/qcom_scm/parameter/download_mode
+
+Once the download mode is set, any kind of crash will make the device collect
+respective dump as per set download mode.
+
+Dump collection
+---------------
+
+The solution supports extracting the minidump produced either over USB or
+stored to an attached storage device.
+
+By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
+running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
+a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured directory
+in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
+md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to determine
+whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the region,
+so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the content
+can be seen just opening the binary file.
+
+To collect the dump to attached storage type, one need to write appropriate
+value to IMEM register, in that case dumps are collected in rawdump
+partition on the target device itself.
+
+One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
+save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
+can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
+this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when download type
+was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
+starts with md_*.
+
+Replacing the dexter.exe with some open source tool can be added as future
+scope of this document.