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Valdis Kletnieks
d4bf205da6 pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries
The pstore filesystem still creates duplicate filename/inode pairs for
some pstore types.  Add the id to the filename to prevent that.

Before patch:

[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi

After:

[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1232 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499100000
1231 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499200000
1230 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705400000
1229 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705500000
1228 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 20:42 console-efi-141203772600000
1227 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204854900000
1226 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204855000000
1225 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954200000
1224 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954400000

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6+
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2014-10-15 13:51:33 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
02b9984d64 fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
9ad2cbe0a9 pstore: Add file extension to pstore file if compressed
In case decompression fails, add a ".enc.z" to indicate the file has
compressed data. This will help user space utilities to figure
out the file contents.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-08-19 11:53:27 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
c39524e674 pstore: d_alloc_name() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
d_alloc_name() returns NULL on error.  Also I changed the error code
from -ENOSPC to -ENOMEM to reflect that we were short on RAM not disk
space.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-08-19 10:13:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
65b97fb730 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...
2013-07-04 10:29:23 -07:00
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
bf2883339a pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase
pstore_erase is used to erase the record from the persistent store.
So if a driver has not defined pstore_erase callback return
-EPERM instead of unlinking a file as deleting the file without
erasing its record in persistent store will give a wrong impression
to customers.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-06-25 10:04:38 -07:00
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
a5e4797b0f powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore
This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 17:05:02 +10:00
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
f33f748c96 powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore
This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of
of-config partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore.
For instance, of-config partition details will be stored in a
file named [of-nvram-5].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 17:04:59 +10:00
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
69020eea97 powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore
This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be
stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 17:04:52 +10:00
Josh Boyer
fb0af3f2b1 pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore
Using /dev/pstore as a mount point for the pstore filesystem is slightly
awkward.  We don't normally mount filesystems in /dev/ and the /dev/pstore
file isn't created automatically by anything.  While this method will
still work, we can create a persistent mount point in sysfs.  This will
put pstore on par with things like cgroups and efivarfs.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-02-12 13:07:22 -08:00
Andrew Morton
965c8e59cf lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"
But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Seiji Aguchi
755d4fe465 efi_pstore: Add a sequence counter to a variable name
[Issue]

Currently, a variable name, which identifies each entry, consists of type, id and ctime.
But if multiple events happens in a short time, a second/third event may fail to log because
efi_pstore can't distinguish each event with current variable name.

[Solution]

A reasonable way to identify all events precisely is introducing a sequence counter to
the variable name.

The sequence counter has already supported in a pstore layer with "oopscount".
So, this patch adds it to a variable name.
Also, it is passed to read/erase callbacks of platform drivers in accordance with
the modification of the variable name.

  <before applying this patch>
 a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678
 a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-12345678

  type:0
  id:1
  ctime:12345678

 If multiple events happen in a short time, efi_pstore can't distinguish them because
 variable names are same among them.

  <after applying this patch>

 it can be distinguishable by adding a sequence counter as follows.

 a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-1-12345678
 a variable name of Second event: dump-type0-1-2-12345678

  type:0
  id:1
  sequence counter: 1(first event), 2(second event)
  ctime:12345678

In case of a write callback executed in pstore_console_write(), "0" is added to
an argument of the write callback because it just logs all kernel messages and
doesn't need to care about multiple events.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2012-11-26 16:07:44 -08:00
Seiji Aguchi
a9efd39cd5 efi_pstore: Add ctime to argument of erase callback
[Issue]

Currently, a variable name, which is used to identify each log entry, consists of type,
id and ctime. But an erase callback does not use ctime.

If efi_pstore supported just one log, type and id were enough.
However, in case of supporting multiple logs, it doesn't work because
it can't distinguish each entry without ctime at erasing time.

 <Example>

 As you can see below, efi_pstore can't differentiate first event from second one without ctime.

 a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678
 a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-23456789

  type:0
  id:1
  ctime:12345678, 23456789

[Solution]

This patch adds ctime to an argument of an erase callback.

It works across reboots because ctime of pstore means the date that the record was originally stored.
To do this, efi_pstore saves the ctime to variable name at writing time and passes it to pstore
at reading time.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2012-11-26 16:02:12 -08:00
Anton Vorontsov
060287b8c4 pstore: Add persistent function tracing
With this support kernel can save function call chain log into a
persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot
through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function
was last called before a reset or panic.

We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time.

p.s.
Mostly the code comes from trace_persistent.c driver found in the
Android git tree, written by Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
(according to sign-off history). I reworked the driver a little bit,
and ported it to pstore.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 10:05:52 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
f29e5956ae pstore: Add console log messages support
Pstore doesn't support logging kernel messages in run-time, it only
dumps dmesg when kernel oopses/panics. This makes pstore useless for
debugging hangs caused by HW issues or improper use of HW (e.g.
weird device inserted -> driver tried to write a reserved bits ->
SoC hanged. In that case we don't get any messages in the pstore.

Therefore, let's add a runtime logging support: PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-13 16:59:27 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
364ed2f465 pstore/inode: Make pstore_fill_super() static
There's no reason to extern it. The patch fixes the annoying sparse
warning:

CHECK   fs/pstore/inode.c
fs/pstore/inode.c:264:5: warning: symbol 'pstore_fill_super' was not
declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-13 16:52:40 -07:00
Jan Kara
dbd5768f87 vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06 13:43:41 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
5d32c88f0b Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to
  merge things.

  I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches.  I've been
  wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall
  prospects for success of the project.  But after speaking with Pavel
  at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward
  completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped
  complaining" stage regarding the net changes.  So I need to go back
  and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion."

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches)
  memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix
  backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1
  C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker
  MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo
  alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
  scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open()
  libfs: add simple_open()
  hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module
  drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback
  fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
  fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed
  fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
  sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
  proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA
2012-04-05 15:30:34 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
234e340582 simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when
they want to support a custom read/write function op.  This leads to a
proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire
tree.

Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we
can replace all the users of this function with simple_open().

This replacement was done with the following semantic patch:

<smpl>
@ open @
identifier open_f != simple_open;
identifier i, f;
@@
-int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
-{
(
-if (i->i_private)
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
|
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
)
-return 0;
-}

@ has_open depends on open @
identifier fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
-.open = open_f,
+.open = simple_open,
...
};
</smpl>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-05 15:25:50 -07:00
Al Viro
22a71c3055 pstore: trim pstore_get_inode()
move mode-dependent parts to callers, kill unused arguments

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31 16:03:15 -04:00
Al Viro
318ceed088 tidy up after d_make_root() conversion
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:37 -04:00
Al Viro
48fde701af switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:35 -04:00
Kees Cook
2174f6df78 pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions
If a pstore backend doesn't want to support various portions of the
pstore interface, it can just leave those functions NULL instead of
creating no-op stubs.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-18 13:49:00 -08:00
Luck, Tony
6dda926691 pstore: defer inserting OOPS entries into pstore
Life is simple for all the kernel terminating types of kmsg_dump
call backs - pstore just saves the tail end of the console log. But
for "oops" the situation is more complex - the kernel may carry on
running (possibly for ever).  So we'd like to make the logged copy
of the oops appear in the pstore filesystem - so that the user has
a handle to clear the entry from the persistent backing store (if
we don't, the store may fill with "oops" entries (that are also
safely stashed in /var/log/messages) leaving no space for real
errors.

Current code calls pstore_mkfile() immediately. But this may
not be safe. The oops could have happened with arbitrary locks
held, or in interrupt or NMI context. So allocating memory and
calling into generic filesystem code seems unwise.

This patch defers making the entry appear. At the time
of the oops, we merely set a flag "pstore_new_entry" noting that
a new entry has been added. A periodic timer checks once a minute
to see if the flag is set - if so, it schedules a work queue to
rescan the backing store and make all new entries appear in the
pstore filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-08-16 11:53:01 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
56280682ce pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
EFI only provides small amounts of individual storage, and conventionally
puts metadata in the storage variable name. Rather than add a metadata
header to the (already limited) variable storage, it's easier for us to
modify pstore to pass all the information we need to construct a unique
variable name to the appropriate functions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:14:20 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
638c1fd303 pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
Some pstore implementations may not have a static context, so extend the
API to pass the pstore_info struct to all calls and allow for a context
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:14:06 -07:00
Luck, Tony
366f7e7a79 pstore: use mount option instead sysfs to tweak kmsg_bytes
/sys/fs is a somewhat strange way to tweak what could more
obviously be tuned with a mount option.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-21 13:50:05 -07:00
Tony Luck
a872d51010 pstore: fix leaking ->i_private
Move kfree() of i_private out of ->unlink() and into ->evict_inode()

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-21 00:45:38 -04:00
Tony Luck
fbe0aa1f3d Some fixes for pstore
1) Change from ->get_sb() to ->mount()
2) Use mount_single() instead of mount_nodev()
3) Pulled in ramfs_get_inode() & trimmed to what I need for pstore
4) Drop the ugly pstore_writefile() Just save data using kmalloc() and
   provide a pstore_file_read() that uses simple_read_from_buffer().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-17 22:08:13 -04:00
Tony Luck
168f2e1431 pstore: fix build warning for unused return value from sysfs_create_file
fs/pstore/inode.c: In function 'init_pstore_fs':
fs/pstore/inode.c:266: warning: ignoring return value of 'sysfs_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-01-06 16:58:58 -08:00
Tony Luck
ca01d6dd2d pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storage
Some platforms have a small amount of non-volatile storage that
can be used to store information useful to diagnose the cause of
a system crash.  This is the generic part of a file system interface
that presents information from the crash as a series of files in
/dev/pstore.  Once the information has been seen, the underlying
storage is freed by deleting the files.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2010-12-28 14:25:21 -08:00