kernel.git/fs/pstore/inode.c, branch linux-3.11.y

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-07-04T17:29:23Z

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window. In addition to the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are: - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit server processors. This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size. - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling and recovery) infrastructure. It is no longer specific to pseries but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no hypervisor) by Gavin Shan. - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded processors). - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael Ellerman. This facility allows what is basically "userspace interrupts" for performance monitor events. - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs. Signals bug fixes and HW breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling. And more ... I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight something that somebody deemed worth it." * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits) pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object powerpc/mpic: add global timer support powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events ...

pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase

2013-06-25T17:04:38Z

pstore_erase is used to erase the record from the persistent store. So if a driver has not defined pstore_erase callback return -EPERM instead of unlinking a file as deleting the file without erasing its record in persistent store will give a wrong impression to customers. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:05:02Z

This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6]. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:59Z

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of of-config partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, of-config partition details will be stored in a file named [of-nvram-5]. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:52Z

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4]. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore

2013-02-12T21:07:22Z

Using /dev/pstore as a mount point for the pstore filesystem is slightly awkward. We don't normally mount filesystems in /dev/ and the /dev/pstore file isn't created automatically by anything. While this method will still work, we can create a persistent mount point in sysfs. This will put pstore on par with things like cgroups and efivarfs. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"

2012-12-18T01:15:12Z

But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead. Fix most of the sites. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

efi_pstore: Add a sequence counter to a variable name

2012-11-27T00:07:44Z

[Issue] Currently, a variable name, which identifies each entry, consists of type, id and ctime. But if multiple events happens in a short time, a second/third event may fail to log because efi_pstore can't distinguish each event with current variable name. [Solution] A reasonable way to identify all events precisely is introducing a sequence counter to the variable name. The sequence counter has already supported in a pstore layer with "oopscount". So, this patch adds it to a variable name. Also, it is passed to read/erase callbacks of platform drivers in accordance with the modification of the variable name. a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678 a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-12345678 type:0 id:1 ctime:12345678 If multiple events happen in a short time, efi_pstore can't distinguish them because variable names are same among them. it can be distinguishable by adding a sequence counter as follows. a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-1-12345678 a variable name of Second event: dump-type0-1-2-12345678 type:0 id:1 sequence counter: 1(first event), 2(second event) ctime:12345678 In case of a write callback executed in pstore_console_write(), "0" is added to an argument of the write callback because it just logs all kernel messages and doesn't need to care about multiple events. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Mike Waychison Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

efi_pstore: Add ctime to argument of erase callback

2012-11-27T00:02:12Z

[Issue] Currently, a variable name, which is used to identify each log entry, consists of type, id and ctime. But an erase callback does not use ctime. If efi_pstore supported just one log, type and id were enough. However, in case of supporting multiple logs, it doesn't work because it can't distinguish each entry without ctime at erasing time. As you can see below, efi_pstore can't differentiate first event from second one without ctime. a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678 a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-23456789 type:0 id:1 ctime:12345678, 23456789 [Solution] This patch adds ctime to an argument of an erase callback. It works across reboots because ctime of pstore means the date that the record was originally stored. To do this, efi_pstore saves the ctime to variable name at writing time and passes it to pstore at reading time. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi Acked-by: Mike Waychison Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Add persistent function tracing

2012-07-17T17:05:52Z

With this support kernel can save function call chain log into a persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function was last called before a reset or panic. We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time. p.s. Mostly the code comes from trace_persistent.c driver found in the Android git tree, written by Colin Cross (according to sign-off history). I reworked the driver a little bit, and ported it to pstore. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman