linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI changes for v3.16

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Message-ID: <537A9EFD.9050208@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 17:17:01 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI changes for v3.16

On 05/19/2014 04:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> The question is, why can't that pstore mumbo jumbo go and do its dance
> in !irq context?
> 
> And how useful is the whole deal really, btw? I wanted to use it for
> saving oopses into it, for example, but Tony said its write speed is
> horribly low for that.
> 
> So why do we even bother with this thing and do the dance in irq context
> for it? Is it worth it at all?
> 

I thought the whole point of allowing pstore in IRQ context was to write
oopsen (panics?)

	-hpa

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