linux-kernel - RE: [RFC] pstore: Don't use persistent store for normal shutdown

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Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:17:16 -0400
From:	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] pstore: Don't use persistent store for normal shutdown

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Luck, Tony [mailto:tony.luck@...el.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:56 PM
>To: Artem Bityutskiy
>Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Seiji Aguchi; David Woodhouse; Marco Stornelli; KOSAKI Motohiro; Andrew Morton; Linus
>Torvalds
>Subject: Re: [RFC] pstore: Don't use persistent store for normal shutdown
>
>From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
>
>pstore_dump() can be called with many different "reason" codes. Save
>the name of the code in the persistent store record.
>
>Also - only worthwhile calling pstore_mkfile for KMSG_DUMP_OOPS - that
>is the only one where the kernel will continue running.
>
>Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>

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