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* pstore: make pstore write function return normal success/fail valueChen Gong2011-10-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Currently pstore write interface employs record id as return value, but it is not enough because it can't tell caller if the write operation is successful. Pass the record id back via an argument pointer and return zero for success, non-zero for failure. Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locksDon Zickus2011-08-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the backend plug-ins. This causes problems when pstore is executed in an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump(). This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to see if we are in an NMI context. If we are in an NMI and can't get the lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking. All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context. Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* pstore: Make "part" unsignedMatthew Garrett2011-07-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | We'll never have a negative part, so just make this an unsigned int. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* pstore: Add extra context for writes and erasesMatthew Garrett2011-07-221-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 Garrett2011-07-221-3/+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: fix pstore filesystem mount/remount issueChen Gong2011-05-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Currently after mount/remount operation on pstore filesystem, the content on pstore will be lost. It is because current ERST implementation doesn't support multi-user usage, which moves internal pointer to the end after accessing it. Adding multi-user support for pstore usage. Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* pstore: fix one type of return value in pstoreChen Gong2011-05-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | the return type of function _read_ in pstore is size_t, but in the callback function of _read_, the logic doesn't consider it too much, which means if negative value (assuming error here) is returned, it will be converted to positive because of type casting. ssize_t is enough for this function. Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storageTony Luck2010-12-281-0/+60
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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