kernel.git/fs/pstore/platform.c, branch linux-3.12.y

pstore: Remove the messages related to compression failure

2013-09-16T16:28:29Z

Remove the messages indicating compression failure as it will add to the space during panic path. Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Use zlib_inflateInit2 instead of zlib_inflateInit

2013-09-16T16:28:29Z

Since zlib_deflateInit2() is used for specifying window bit during compression, zlib_inflateInit2() is appropriate for decompression. Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Adjust buffer size for compression for smaller registered buffers

2013-09-16T16:28:28Z

When backends (ex: efivars) have smaller registered buffers, the big_oops_buf is too big for them as number of repeated occurences in the text captured will be less. What happens is that pstore takes too big a bite from the dmesg log and then finds it cannot compress it enough to meet the backend block size. Patch takes care of adjusting the buffer size based on the registered buffer size. cmpr values have been arrived after doing experiments with plain text for buffers of size 1k - 4k (Smaller the buffer size repeated occurence will be less) and with sample crash log for buffers ranging from 4k - 10k. Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Add file extension to pstore file if compressed

2013-08-19T18:53:27Z

In case decompression fails, add a ".enc.z" to indicate the file has compressed data. This will help user space utilities to figure out the file contents. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Add decompression support to pstore

2013-08-19T18:53:20Z

Based on the flag 'compressed' set or not, pstore will decompress the data returning a plain text file. If decompression fails for a particular record it will have the compressed data in the file which can be decompressed with 'openssl' command line tool. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Introduce new argument 'compressed' in the read callback

2013-08-19T17:18:11Z

Backends will set the flag 'compressed' after reading the log from persistent store to indicate the data being returned to pstore is compressed or not. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Add compression support to pstore

2013-08-19T17:18:11Z

Add compression support to pstore which will help in capturing more data. Initially, pstore will make a call to kmsg_dump with a bigger buffer and will pass the size of bigger buffer to kmsg_dump and then compress the data to registered buffer of registered size. In case compression fails, pstore will capture the uncompressed data by making a call again to kmsg_dump with registered_buffer of registered size. Pstore will indicate the data is compressed or not with a flag in the write callback. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Add new argument 'compressed' in pstore write callback

2013-08-19T17:18:10Z

Addition of new argument 'compressed' in the write call back will help the backend to know if the data passed from pstore is compressed or not (In case where compression fails.). If compressed, the backend can add a tag indicating the data is compressed while writing to persistent store. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

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: Pass header size in the pstore write callback

2013-07-01T08:10:48Z

Header size is needed to distinguish between header and the dump data. Incorporate the addition of new argument (hsize) in the pstore write callback. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt