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>

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+config PSTORE
+	bool "Persistant store support"
+	default n
+	help
+	   This option enables generic access to platform level
+	   persistent storage via "pstore" filesystem that can
+	   be mounted as /dev/pstore.  Only useful if you have
+	   a platform level driver that registers with pstore to
+	   provide the data, so you probably should just go say "Y"
+	   (or "M") to a platform specific persistent store driver
+	   (e.g. ACPI_APEI on X86) which will select this for you.
+	   If you don't have a platform persistent store driver,
+	   say N.