linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for-4.16 1/3] sysfs: improve devices-coredump description with user-space perspective

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:05:00 -0700
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To:     Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.16 1/3] sysfs: improve devices-coredump description
 with user-space perspective

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Instead of referring to kernel internals, describe the ABI from user-space
> perspective to clarify what can be expected when using it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump | 14 +++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
> index e459368..d5a4c75 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
> @@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ What:		/sys/devices/.../coredump
>  Date:		December 2017
>  Contact:	Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>
>  Description:
> -		The /sys/devices/.../coredump attribute is only present when the
> -		device is bound to a driver, which provides the .coredump()
> -		callback. The attribute is write only. Anything written to this
> -		file will trigger the .coredump() callback.
> +		When present the /sys/devices/.../coredump attribute can be used
> +		to trigger a coredump of the device. The coredump contents are
> +		device driver specific and thus vary. The coredump attribute is
> +		writeonly. Anything written to this file will trigger creation
> +		of the coredump. When the coredump is made available under
> +		/sys/class/devcoredump it will generate a uevent. When the
> +		coredump can not be successfully generated no ueven will occur.

s/ueven/uevent/

> 
> -		Available when CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP is enabled.
> +		Available when CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP is enabled and the device
> +		driver supports coredump generation.

What about /sys/class/devcoredump/disabled? Maybe we just need a
sysfs-class-devcoredump too, now that there's a formal method for
triggering devcoredumps.

Brian

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> 1.9.1
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