Documentation/powerpc/fadump: add additional parameter feature details

Update the fadump document to include details about the fadump
additional parameter feature.

The document includes the following:
- Significance of the feature
- How to use it
- Feature restrictions

No functional changes are introduced.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250123114254.200527-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump
index 2f9daa7ca55be0db403450535e20c78e75791ff8..b64b7622e6fc0333774bf451f19bc9dfb73ccc27 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump
@@ -55,4 +55,5 @@ Date:         May 2024
 Contact:       linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
 Description:   read/write
                This is a special sysfs file available to setup additional
-               parameters to be passed to capture kernel.
+               parameters to be passed to capture kernel. For HASH MMU it
+               is exported only if RMA size higher than 768MB.

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
index 7e37aadd1f772d89f8b4379dde9ff1626c34f963..7e266e749cd53afd1ea66502c7977e42c1083a7e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
@@ -120,6 +120,28 @@ to ensure that crash data is preserved to process later.
    e.g.
      # echo 1 > /sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/release_core
 
+-- Support for Additional Kernel Arguments in Fadump
+   Fadump has a feature that allows passing additional kernel arguments
+   to the fadump kernel. This feature was primarily designed to disable
+   kernel functionalities that are not required for the fadump kernel
+   and to reduce its memory footprint while collecting the dump.
+
+  Command to Add Additional Kernel Parameters to Fadump:
+  e.g.
+  # echo "nr_cpus=16" > /sys/kernel/fadump/bootargs_append
+
+  The above command is sufficient to add additional arguments to fadump.
+  An explicit service restart is not required.
+
+  Command to Retrieve the Additional Fadump Arguments:
+  e.g.
+  # cat /sys/kernel/fadump/bootargs_append
+
+Note: Additional kernel arguments for fadump with HASH MMU is only
+      supported if the RMA size is greater than 768 MB. If the RMA
+      size is less than 768 MB, the kernel does not export the
+      /sys/kernel/fadump/bootargs_append sysfs node.
+
 Implementation details:
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