Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] pstore: ramoops: support multiple pmsg instances

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:54 PM Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
<nobuhiro.iwamatsu.kw@hitachi.com> wrote:
> The following series implements multiple pmsg. This feature allows userspace
> program to control individual content aging or priority.

I'd like to take a look at this series again, if you're still
interested in upstreaming it. :) There were a lot of things that
needed refactoring in pstore to sanely deal with this, and I think
we're there now. Is this still desired?

Thanks,

-Kees

>
> If a pstore backend module(e.g. ramoops) requires the multiple pmsg instances
> when registering itself to pstore, multiple /dev/pmsg[ID] are created. Writes
> to each /dev/pmsg[ID] are isolated each other. After reboot, the contents are
> available in /sys/fs/pstore/pmsg-[backend]-[ID].
>
> In addition, we add multiple pmsg support for ramoops. We can specify multiple
> pmsg area size by its module parameter as follows.
>
>  pmsg_size=0x1000,0x2000,...
>
> I did check the operation of this feature on CycloneV (socfpga) Helio board.
>
> v5:
>   Add commit: "pstore: Change parameter of ramoops_free_przs()"
>     - I forgot addition to previous patch series.
>   Update commit: "pstore: support multiple pmsg instances"
>     - Fix comment.
>     - Fix initialization of num_pmsg.
>
> v4:
>   Rebase to 4.10-rc5
>   The following patches have been removed from this series as similar functions
>   were modified by other commit.
>      - pstore: Replace four kzalloc() calls by kcalloc() in ramoops_init_przs()
>      - pstore: Change parameter of ramoops_free_przs()
>      - pstore: Rename 'przs' to 'dprzs' in struct ramoops_context
>      - ramoops: Rename ramoops_init_prz() to ramoops_init_dprzs()
>
> v3:
>   Rebase to v4.8.
>   Split patch.
>   merged device_create().
>   Remove Blank lines.
>   Update documentiation of DT binding.
>   Update parsing function of ramoops_pmsg_size, add NULL termination.
>   Update module parameters for pmsg_size list.
>
> Hiraku Toyooka (2):
>   pstore: support multiple pmsg instances
>   selftests/pstore: add testcases for multiple pmsg instances
>
> Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (3):
>   pstore: Change parameter of ramoops_free_przs()
>   ramoops: Add __ramoops_init_prz() as generic function
>   ramoops: support multiple pmsg instances
>
>  Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst              |  22 ++
>  .../bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt           |   6 +-
>  fs/pstore/pmsg.c                                   |  23 +-
>  fs/pstore/ram.c                                    | 317 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/pstore.h                             |   1 +
>  include/linux/pstore_ram.h                         |   8 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/pstore/common_tests        |  21 +-
>  .../selftests/pstore/pstore_post_reboot_tests      |  27 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/pstore/pstore_tests        |  14 +-
>  9 files changed, 342 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>


-- 
Kees Cook