linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore

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Date:	Wed, 4 Sep 2013 16:39:23 +0000
From:	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	"jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"ccross@...roid.com" <ccross@...roid.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...abs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	"cbouatmailru@...il.com" <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore

> But let's make sure that efivars, erst,
> etc. are all happy with the changes we make before I ask Linus to pull another
> pstore piece.

I will test efivars when Aruna posts the bugfix patches.

Seiji

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony [mailto:tony.luck@...el.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 12:11 PM
> To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah; Seiji Aguchi
> Cc: jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com; keescook@...omium.org; mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com; ccross@...roid.com; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@...abs.org; cbouatmailru@...il.com
> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore
> 
> > The reason behind compression failure is the size of big_oops_buf which is too
> > big for efivars case. I will do some experiments with different kind of texts
> > for buffer size 1024 to check if 100/53 suits for all the cases.
> ...
> 
> > Yes this can be changed to zlib_inflateInit2().
> 
> Original patch series was just pulled by Linus ... so we'll need a patch on top
> of current Linus git tree to fix these issues.  But let's make sure that efivars, erst,
> etc. are all happy with the changes we make before I ask Linus to pull another
> pstore piece.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Tony
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