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* pstore: defer inserting OOPS entries into pstoreLuck, Tony2011-08-161-4/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* pstore: Add extra context for writes and erasesMatthew Garrett2011-07-221-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backendsMatthew Garrett2011-07-221-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* pstore: use mount option instead sysfs to tweak kmsg_bytesLuck, Tony2011-03-211-22/+46
| | | | | | | | | /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>
* pstore: fix leaking ->i_privateTony Luck2011-03-211-1/+7
| | | | | | | 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>
* Some fixes for pstoreTony Luck2011-03-171-60/+56
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* pstore: fix build warning for unused return value from sysfs_create_fileTony Luck2011-01-061-11/+16
| | | | | | | | 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>
* pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storageTony Luck2010-12-281-0/+280
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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