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| author | WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com> | 2020-03-25 16:55:05 +0800 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-05-31 19:49:00 -0700 |
| commit | 7dcb7848ba110ff192efc917d1a6de66b4c9ca4f (patch) | |
| tree | 53e7bdd3c266bbadeb9b7091889a736f5c76897a /Documentation | |
| parent | 1525fb3bb6d69028b3941d34363397c28345ffab (diff) | |
pstore/blk: Support non-block storage devices
Add support for non-block devices (e.g. MTD). A non-block driver calls
pstore_blk_register_device() to register iself.
In addition, pstore/zone is updated to handle non-block devices,
where an erase must be done before a write. Without this, there is no
way to remove records stored to an MTD.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-10-keescook@chromium.org/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst index bef8c7436721..d45341e55e82 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Introduction ------------ pstore block (pstore/blk) is an oops/panic logger that writes its logs to a -block device before the system crashes. You can get these log files by -mounting pstore filesystem like:: +block device and non-block device before the system crashes. You can get +these log files by mounting pstore filesystem like:: mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Configurations for user determine how pstore/blk works, such as pmsg_size, kmsg_size and so on. All of them support both Kconfig and module parameters, but module parameters have priority over Kconfig. -Configurations for driver are all about block device, such as total_size -of block device and read/write operations. +Configurations for driver are all about block device and non-block device, +such as total_size of block device and read/write operations. Configurations for user ----------------------- @@ -152,6 +152,15 @@ driver uses ``register_pstore_blk`` to register to pstore/blk. .. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c :identifiers: register_pstore_blk +A non-block device driver uses ``register_pstore_device`` with +``struct pstore_device_info`` to register to pstore/blk. + +.. kernel-doc:: fs/pstore/blk.c + :identifiers: register_pstore_device + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pstore_blk.h + :identifiers: pstore_device_info + Compression and header ---------------------- |