From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C904EC433F5 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2022 22:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232280AbiJFWnn (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:43:43 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36076 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232238AbiJFWnm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:43:42 -0400 Received: from fanzine2.igalia.com (fanzine.igalia.com [178.60.130.6]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E7AAF2539; Thu, 6 Oct 2022 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=igalia.com; s=20170329; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To: Message-Id:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=OOh5S7b6Hnc2HBjRQcJVdon08G2hglJQpnHO9T3Cemg=; b=ThouN2ayN/yFeffHynfhHg2/qD w4T8KYJlY8/StyOg87HM20xS9875r/MjXAPdnPBM+KQwsQOpHLwysnjEAtYWsTBrC2UAemnOSupPS OTPONbqDcq15jtfcB5JK/74xz7CtFKa7BdT9NQNyQgO3NXoGbTrKkqb/VAB7v/E4ObTGGjTX++Idr uQ0Pcdk/iruuagZWGebLNCeV/UOnL9QqAXMmIAI2IVua2QZ3zOt2v0sNzxuEbUHmDAOux+XjggbFE 59ln3xjTEDFlA+yOyVi5/5t+aFQLvN7V6W7vadqykvM4tCbHGN4PxQw8FuFSROQ1P8dTE9mRL9+KV UTg+C7+g==; Received: from 201-43-120-40.dsl.telesp.net.br ([201.43.120.40] helo=localhost) by fanzine2.igalia.com with esmtpsa (Cipher TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim) id 1ogZac-00C4MB-VT; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:43:39 +0200 From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, keescook@chromium.org, anton@enomsg.org, ccross@android.com, tony.luck@intel.com, "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Subject: [PATCH 4/8] pstore: Alert on backend write error Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 19:42:08 -0300 Message-Id: <20221006224212.569555-5-gpiccoli@igalia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.38.0 In-Reply-To: <20221006224212.569555-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> References: <20221006224212.569555-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org The pstore dump function doesn't alert at all on errors - despite pstore is usually a last resource and if it fails users won't be able to read the kernel log, this is not the case for server users with serial access, for example. So, let's at least attempt to inform such advanced users on the first backend writing error detected during the kmsg dump - this is also very useful for pstore debugging purposes. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli --- fs/pstore/platform.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c index 06c2c66af332..ee50812fdd2e 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/platform.c +++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c @@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, if (ret == 0 && reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) { pstore_new_entry = 1; pstore_timer_kick(); + } else { + pr_err_once("backend (%s) writing error (%d)\n", + psinfo->name, ret); } total += record.size; -- 2.38.0