linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] Merge ram

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 05:53:30 -0700
From:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Merge ram_console into pstore

Hi all,

Currently pstore doesn't support logging kernel messages in run-time,
it only dumps dmesg when kernel oopses/panics. This makes pstore
useless for debugging hangs caused by HW issues or improper use of HW
(e.g. weird device inserted -> driver tried to write reserved bits ->
SoC hanged. In that case we don't get any messages in the pstore.

This series add a new message type for pstore, i.e. PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE,
plus make pstore/ram.c handle the new messages.

The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
we can probably postpone the last two patches.

These patches depend on the following series:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1298179
"[PATCH v2 0/6] Merge ramoops and persistent_ram, generic pstore RAM backend"

Thanks!

--- 
 Documentation/ramoops.txt             |   15 +++
 drivers/staging/android/Kconfig       |    5 -
 drivers/staging/android/Makefile      |    1 -
 drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c |  179 ---------------------------------
 fs/pstore/Kconfig                     |    7 ++
 fs/pstore/inode.c                     |    3 +
 fs/pstore/platform.c                  |   25 +++++
 fs/pstore/ram.c                       |   39 +++++--
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c                  |   81 +--------------
 include/linux/pstore.h                |    1 +
 include/linux/pstore_ram.h            |   19 ----
 11 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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