Having automatic updates seems pointless for production system, and
even dangerous and thus counter-productive:
1. If we can mount pstore, or read files, we can as well read
/proc/kmsg. So, there's little point in duplicating the
functionality and present the same information but via another
userland ABI;
2. Expecting the kernel to behave sanely after oops/panic is naive.
It might work, but you'd rather not try it. Screwed up kernel
can do rather bad things, like recursive faults[1]; and pstore
rather provoking bad things to happen. It uses:
1. Timers (assumes sane interrupts state);
2. Workqueues and mutexes (assumes scheduler in a sane state);
3. kzalloc (a working slab allocator);
That's too much for a dead kernel, so the debugging facility
itself might just make debugging harder, which is not what
we want.
Maybe for non-oops message types it would make sense to re-enable
automatic updates, but so far I don't see any use case for this.
Even for tracing, it has its own run-time/normal ABI, so we're
only interested in pstore upon next boot, to retrieve what has
gone wrong with HW or SW.
So, let's disable the updates by default.
[1]
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff8
IP: [<ffffffff8104801b>] kthread_data+0xb/0x20
[...]
Process kworker/0:1 (pid: 14, threadinfo ffff8800072c0000, task ffff88000725b100)
[...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81043710>] wq_worker_sleeping+0x10/0xa0
[<ffffffff813687a8>] __schedule+0x568/0x7d0
[<ffffffff8106c24d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff81087e22>] ? call_rcu_sched+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff8102b596>] ? release_task+0x156/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8102b45e>] ? release_task+0x1e/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8106c24d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff81368ac4>] schedule+0x24/0x70
[<ffffffff8102cba8>] do_exit+0x1f8/0x370
[<ffffffff810051e7>] oops_end+0x77/0xb0
[<ffffffff8135c301>] no_context+0x1a6/0x1b5
[<ffffffff8135c4de>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1ce/0x1ed
[<ffffffff81053156>] ? ttwu_queue+0xc6/0xe0
[<ffffffff8135c50b>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8101fa47>] do_page_fault+0x2c7/0x450
[<ffffffff8106e34b>] ? __lock_release+0x6b/0xe0
[<ffffffff8106bf21>] ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x140
[<ffffffff810502fe>] ? __wake_up+0x4e/0x70
[<ffffffff81185f7d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff8136a37f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff81185ab8>] ? memcpy+0x68/0x110
[<ffffffff8115875a>] ? pstore_get_records+0x3a/0x130
[<ffffffff811590f4>] ? persistent_ram_copy_old+0x64/0x90
[<ffffffff81158bf4>] ramoops_pstore_read+0x84/0x130
[<ffffffff81158799>] pstore_get_records+0x79/0x130
[<ffffffff81042536>] ? process_one_work+0x116/0x450
[<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff8115897e>] pstore_dowork+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff81042594>] process_one_work+0x174/0x450
[<ffffffff81042536>] ? process_one_work+0x116/0x450
[<ffffffff81042e13>] worker_thread+0x123/0x2d0
[<ffffffff81042cf0>] ? manage_workers.isra.28+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff81047d8e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0
[<ffffffff8136ba74>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff8136a199>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[<ffffffff81047d00>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff8136ba70>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
Code: be e2 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 d1 2a 4e 81 e8 bf fb fd ff 48 8b 5d f0 4c 8b 65 f8 c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 08 02 00 00 55 48 89 e5 <48> 8b 40 f8 5d c3 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
RIP [<ffffffff8104801b>] kthread_data+0xb/0x20
RSP <ffff8800072c1888>
CR2: fffffffffffffff8
---[ end trace 996a332dc399111d ]---
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is no behavioural change, the default value is still 60 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code tried to maintain the global list of persistent ram zones,
which isn't a great idea overall, plus since Android's ram_console
is no longer there, we can remove some unused functions.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since we use multiple regions, the messages are somewhat annoying.
We do print total mapped memory already, so no need to print the
information for each region in the library routines.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The console log size is configurable via ramoops.console_size
module option, and the log itself is available via
<pstore-mount>/console-ramoops file.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This will help make code clearer when we'll add support for other
message types.
The patch also changes return value from -EINVAL to 0 in case of
end-of-records. The exact value doesn't matter for pstore (it should
be just <= 0), but 0 feels more correct.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This will help make code clearer when we'll add support for other
message types.
This also makes probe() much shorter and understandable, plus
makes mem/record size checking a bit easier.
Implementation detail: we now use a paddr pointer, this will
be used for allocating persistent ram zones for other message
types.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We're about to add support for other message types, so let's rename
some variables to not be confused later.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 a reserved bits ->
SoC hanged. In that case we don't get any messages in the pstore.
Therefore, let's add a runtime logging support: PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There's no reason to extern it. The patch fixes the annoying sparse
warning:
CHECK fs/pstore/inode.c
fs/pstore/inode.c:264:5: warning: symbol 'pstore_fill_super' was not
declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Otherwise, unlinked file will reappear on the next boot.
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
A handy function that we will use outside of ram_core soon. But
so far just factor it out and start using it in post_init().
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Otherwise, the files will survive just one reboot, and on a subsequent
boot they will disappear.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Without the update, we'll only see the new dmesg buffer after the
reboot, but previously we could see it right away. Making an oops
visible in pstore filesystem before reboot is a somewhat dubious
feature, but removing it wasn't an intentional change, so let's
restore it.
For this we have to make persistent_ram_save_old() safe for calling
multiple times, and also extern it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
"Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."
* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
This is now straightforward: just introduce a module parameter and pass
the needed value to persistent_ram_new().
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The patch switches pstore RAM backend to use persistent_ram routines,
one step closer to the ECC support.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is a first step for adding ECC support for pstore RAM backend: we
will use the persistent_ram routines, kindly provided by Google.
Basically, persistent_ram is a set of helper routines to deal with the
[optionally] ECC-protected persistent ram regions.
A bit of Makefile, Kconfig and header files adjustments were needed
because of the move.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character
devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore.
The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed
because of the move:
1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course.
2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this
is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver
(i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still
work).
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
"The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to
merge things.
I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches. I've been
wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall
prospects for success of the project. But after speaking with Pavel
at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward
completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped
complaining" stage regarding the net changes. So I need to go back
and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion."
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches)
memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix
backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1
C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker
MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo
alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open()
libfs: add simple_open()
hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module
drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback
fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed
fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA
Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when
they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a
proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire
tree.
Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we
can replace all the users of this function with simple_open().
This replacement was done with the following semantic patch:
<smpl>
@ open @
identifier open_f != simple_open;
identifier i, f;
@@
-int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
-{
(
-if (i->i_private)
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
|
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
)
-return 0;
-}
@ has_open depends on open @
identifier fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
-.open = open_f,
+.open = simple_open,
...
};
</smpl>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a pstore backend doesn't want to support various portions of the
pstore interface, it can just leave those functions NULL instead of
creating no-op stubs.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.
Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here
has no obviously correct value.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend
pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following
backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends
that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path.
To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close
loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend.
Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is
called in the middle of the read path.
[ 59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847
[ 59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount
[ 59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1
[ 59.691019] Call Trace:
[ 59.691019] [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca
[ 59.691019] [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3
[ 59.691019] [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4
[ 59.691019] [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64
[ 59.691019] [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43
[ 59.691019] [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98
[ 59.691019] [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f
[ 59.691019] [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1
[ 59.691019] [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158
[ 59.691019] [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c
[ 59.691019] [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0
[ 59.691019] [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27
[ 59.691019] [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[ 59.691019] [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7
[ 59.691019] [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91
[ 59.691019] [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82
[ 59.691019] [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17
[ 59.691019] [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98
[ 59.691019] [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d
[ 59.691019] [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a
[ 59.691019] [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d
[ 59.691019] [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2
[ 59.691019] [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a
[ 59.691019] [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f
[ 59.691019] [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99
[ 59.691019] [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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 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>
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 only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the
system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose
which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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_dump() can be called with many different "reason" codes. Save
the name of the code in the persistent store record.
Also - only worthwhile calling pstore_mkfile for KMSG_DUMP_OOPS - that
is the only one where the kernel will continue running.
Reviewed-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
/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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
