linux-kernel - fs/pstore question

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 10:05:15 +0200
From:   Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: fs/pstore question

Hello

I'm using the pstore feature to log kernel crashes.

What I observe is that after reboot, always 2 entries are present in the pstore:

ls -l /mnt/pstore
total 0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         16372 Jan  1 00:00 dmesg-ramoops-0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         16372 Jan  1 00:00 dmesg-ramoops-1

If I do not delete the entries and force a new crash, only 2 new
entries are available
after the system is online again and the older entries are overwritten.

The reason for this is that the write index is always initialized to 0
during init.
Is this intentional? I would expect that existing entries are kept
until they are explicitly
deleted or the storage is full. In the latter case the oldest entries
can be replaced.

Best regards,
Ronny