Remove redundant details of blkdev and fix up resulting kerndoc.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Stop poking into block layer internals and just open the block device
file an use kernel_read and kernel_write on it. Note that this means
the transformation from name_to_dev_t can't be used anymore when
pstore_blk is loaded as a module: a full filesystem device path name
must be used instead. Additionally removes ":internal:" kerndoc link,
since no such documentation remains.
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This interface is entirely unused, so remove them and various bits of
unreachable code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201016132047.3068029-4-hch@lst.de
Use the human readable device name instead of the device number, and
add the required best_effort parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: WeiXiong Liao <gmpy.liaowx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201016132047.3068029-3-hch@lst.de
There is currently a problem with kernel-doc tags from blk.c:
.../Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk:239: ./fs/pstore/blk.c:175: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'admin-guide/pstore-blk'.
Declaration is 'register_pstore_device'.
.../Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk:239: ./fs/pstore/blk.c:432: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'admin-guide/pstore-blk'.
Declaration is 'register_pstore_blk'.
.../Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk:242: ./include/linux/pstore_blk.h:43: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'admin-guide/pstore-blk'.
Declaration is 'pstore_device_info'.
Basically, the internal parts is shown with :export:, instead
of :internal:. Yet, there are some other exported docs that
aren't at the document, because they lack :identifiers:.
So, instead, let's just use :export: at the kAPI part of
the documentation.
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
This introduces mtdpstore, which is similar to mtdoops but more
powerful. It uses pstore/blk, and aims to store panic and oops logs to
a flash partition, where pstore can later read back and present as files
in the mounted pstore filesystem.
To make mtdpstore work, the "blkdev" of pstore/blk should be set
as MTD device name or MTD device number. For more details, see
Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
This solves a number of issues:
- Work duplication: both of pstore and mtdoops do the same job storing
panic/oops log. They have very similar logic, registering to kmsg
dumper and storing logs to several chunks one by one.
- Layer violations: drivers should provides methods instead of polices.
MTD should provide read/write/erase operations, and allow a higher
level drivers to provide the chunk management, kmsg dump
configuration, etc.
- Missing features: pstore provides many additional features, including
presenting the logs as files, logging dump time and count, and
supporting other frontends like pmsg, console, etc.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-11-keescook@chromium.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589266715-4168-1-git-send-email-liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Add support for non-block devices (e.g. MTD). A non-block driver calls
pstore_blk_register_device() to register iself.
In addition, pstore/zone is updated to handle non-block devices,
where an erase must be done before a write. Without this, there is no
way to remove records stored to an MTD.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-10-keescook@chromium.org/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Add details on using pstore/blk, the new backend of pstore to record
dumps to block devices, in Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-7-keescook@chromium.org/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
