ANBZ: #4183
Provide a pstore frontend which can log all messages that are send
to tty drivers when there are some problems with drivers or there
is no access to serial ports.
Using pmsg requires us to redirect the output of the user state.
When we need to globally view the serial output of various processes,
it is tedious to redirect the output of each process. We think pmsg is
more suitable for targeted viewing of certain processes' output, and
we also need a tool that can quickly do a global view so that we can
get user-state printed data if the tty driver is working abnormally or
if we don't have serial access.
Signed-off-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Xingrui Yi <yixingrui@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://gitee.com/anolis/cloud-kernel/pulls/1231
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>
In order to configure itself, the MTD backend needs to be able to query
the current pstore configuration. Introduce pstore_blk_get_config() for
this purpose.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-9-keescook@chromium.org/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
One requirement to support MTD devices in pstore/zone is having a
way to declare certain regions as broken. Add this support to
pstore/zone.
The MTD driver should return -ENOMSG when encountering a bad region,
which tells pstore/zone to skip and try the next one.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-8-keescook@chromium.org/
Co-developed-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: //lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512173801.222666-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
pstore/blk is similar to pstore/ram, but uses a block device as the
storage rather than persistent ram.
The pstore/blk backend solves two common use-cases that used to preclude
using pstore/ram:
- not all devices have a battery that could be used to persist
regular RAM across power failures.
- most embedded intelligent equipment have no persistent ram, which
increases costs, instead preferring cheaper solutions, like block
devices.
pstore/blk provides separate configurations for the end user and for the
block drivers. User configuration determines how pstore/blk operates, such
as record sizes, max kmsg dump reasons, etc. These can be set by Kconfig
and/or module parameters, but module parameter have priority over Kconfig.
Driver configuration covers all the details about the target block device,
such as total size of the device and how to perform read/write operations.
These are provided by block drivers, calling pstore_register_blkdev(),
including an optional panic_write callback used to bypass regular IO
APIs in an effort to avoid potentially destabilized kernel code during
a panic.
Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-3-keescook@chromium.org/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Yuanhe Shu