From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761442Ab2ELAQj (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2012 20:16:39 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:50341 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761403Ab2ELAQg (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2012 20:16:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:15:06 -0700 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook , Colin Cross Cc: Arnd Bergmann , John Stultz , arve@android.com, Rebecca Schultz Zavin , Jesper Juhl , Randy Dunlap , Stephen Boyd , Thomas Meyer , Andrew Morton , Marco Stornelli , Sergiu Iordache , 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 0/11] Merge ramoops and persistent_ram, generic pstore RAM backend Message-ID: <20120512001506.GA8653@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 Hi all, There are currently two competing debug facilities to store kernel messages in a persistent storage: a generic pstore and Google's persistent_ram. Not so long ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/252), it was decided that we should fix this situation. Recently ramoops has switched to pstore, which basically means that it became a RAM backend for the pstore framework. persistent_ram+ram_console and ramoops+pstore have almost the same features, except: 1. Ramoops doesn't support ECC. Having ECC is useful when a hardware reset was used to bring the machine back to life (i.e. a watchdog triggered). In such cases, RAM may be somewhat corrupt, but usually it is restorable. 2. 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. These patches solve the first issue, plus move things to their proper places. Patches that will fix the second issue are pending. Thanks, --- drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 - drivers/char/Makefile | 1 - drivers/char/ramoops.c | 362 -------------------- drivers/staging/android/Kconfig | 10 +- drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c | 473 -------------------------- drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h | 78 ----- drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/Kconfig | 12 + fs/pstore/Makefile | 1 + fs/pstore/ram.c | 384 ++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 530 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 99 ++++++ include/linux/ramoops.h | 17 - 13 files changed, 1028 insertions(+), 950 deletions(-) -- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com