From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Bhaskara Budiredla <bbudiredla@marvell.com>,
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: Support kmsg dumper based on pstore/blk
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:37:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202012151232.843EB2CB49@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPDyKFqMsMdqw=Uwzby0tNNvPieRT2i6PAmHu_9XRRVy1MykuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:42:58PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> In principle, for non atomic path, I would rather see that the pstore
> file system should be able to be mounted on top of any generic block
> device partition - without requiring the block device driver to
> implement specific pstore ops.
> [...]
> Exactly. That's why I wonder if it's really worth it to support the
> panic writes at all.
pstore/blk already provides the generic hooking -- but it can't do
the panic write part (which that's very device/driver-specific). The
design was for individual backing devices to provide that directly
(which would needed read/write support too). And for those that don't
have panic/read/write support, they could still use the generic hooks
but they wouldn't be able to reliably (or at all?) catch panics (just
console writes, ftrace, pmsg, etc).
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-07 11:57 [PATCH v3 0/2] mmc: support crash logging to MMC block devices Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-07 11:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] mmc: Support kmsg dumper based on pstore/blk Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-11 11:31 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-15 6:52 ` [EXT] " Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-15 11:42 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-15 14:34 ` Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-16 9:57 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-16 10:42 ` Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-16 10:52 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-17 11:36 ` Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-17 17:11 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-18 4:02 ` Bhaskara Budiredla
2020-12-15 20:37 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-12-16 10:44 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-12-18 18:50 ` Kees Cook
2020-12-07 11:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmc: cavium: Add MMC polling method to support kmsg panic/oops write Bhaskara Budiredla
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