Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756843Ab2EVOSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 10:18:51 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:38396 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354Ab2EVOSt (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 10:18:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 07:17:17 -0700 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook , Colin Cross , Tony Luck Cc: Arnd Bergmann , John Stultz , Shuah Khan , arve@android.com, Rebecca Schultz Zavin , Jesper Juhl , Randy Dunlap , Stephen Boyd , Thomas Meyer , Andrew Morton , Marco Stornelli , WANG Cong , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: [PATCH v4 0/16] Merge ram_console into pstore, and more Message-ID: <20120522141717.GA31574@lizard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2919 Lines: 72 Hi all, A brand new v4: - Per Kees Cook's comments, the patches no longer remove an automatic updates feature, but instead make the it configurable; plus disable it by default (in a separate patch); - Fixed some bugs noticed by Colin Cross; - Documented new continuous ramoops-console log behaviour (also noticed by Colin Cross). In v3: - Rebased on top of current staging-next; - The series are getting bigger. This is partly because we now support different persistent zone sizes for oops records and console log, per Colin Cross' request. And I believe the code is now more manageable for further enhancements (e.g. if we'd want to add other message types, e.g. tracing); - Addressed Kees Cook's comments on the unlinking matters; - Removed automatic updates support. Please see the last patch description for rationale; - A new fixup for pstore/inode, just getting rid of a sparse warning. In v2: - Updated documentation per Colin Cross' comments; - Corrected return value in ramoops_pstore_write() (noticed by Kees Cook); - Fixed large writes handling in pstore_console_write(), i.e. when log_buf write is larger than pstore bufsize. Also Noticed by Kees Cook. And a boilerplate for the series: Currently 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 reserved bits -> SoC hanged. In that case we don't get any messages in the pstore. This series add a new message type for pstore, i.e. PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE, plus make pstore/ram.c handle the new messages. The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted... but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance, we can probably postpone the last two patches. Thanks! --- Documentation/ramoops.txt | 14 ++ drivers/staging/android/Kconfig | 5 - drivers/staging/android/Makefile | 1 - drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c | 179 -------------------------- fs/pstore/Kconfig | 7 + fs/pstore/inode.c | 5 +- fs/pstore/platform.c | 49 ++++++- fs/pstore/ram.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 108 +++------------- include/linux/pstore.h | 1 + include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 22 +--- 11 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 347 deletions(-) -- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/