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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:47:02 +0000
From: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony [mailto:tony.luck@...el.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 7:17 PM
> To: Seiji Aguchi; Aruna Balakrishnaiah; linuxppc-dev@...abs.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; keescook@...omium.org
> Cc: jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com; ananth@...ibm.com; benh@...nel.crashing.org; cbouatmailru@...il.com;
> mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com; ccross@...roid.com
> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore
>
> <1>[ 383.209057] RIP [<ffffffff813d3946>] sysrq_handle_crash+0x16/0x20
> <4>[ 383.209057] RSP <ffff88006f551e80>
> <4>[ 383.209057] CR2: 0000000000000000
> <4>[ 383.209057] ---[ end trace 04a1cddad37b4b33 ]---
> <3>[ 383.209057] pstore: compression failed for Part 2 returned -5
> <3>[ 383.209057] pstore: Capture uncompressed oops/panic report of Part 2
> <3>[ 383.209057] pstore: compression failed for Part 5 returned -5
>
> Interesting. With ERST backend I didn't see these messages. Traces in
> pstore recovered files go as far as the line before the "---[ end trace 04a1cddad37b4b33 ]---"
>
> Why the difference depending on which back end is in use?
I think the difference doesn't depend on the back end.
Rather it depends on the environment.
I tested on a kvm guest with OVMF.
Seiji
>
> But I agree that we shouldn't have these messages. They use up space
> in the persistent store that could be better used saving some more lines
> from earlier in the console log.
>
> -Tony
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