linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: ABI: add /sys/kernel/error

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Message-Id: <20210115130336.2520663-4-glider@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:03:34 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     andreyknvl@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        elver@...gle.com, pmladek@...e.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, glider@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: ABI: add /sys/kernel/error_report/ documentation

Add ABI documentation for files in /sys/kernel/error_report/

Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report     | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..666d039f93a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/error_report/
+Date:		January 2021
+Contact:	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
+		Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
+Description:
+		/sys/kernel/error_report/ contains two files: "report_count"
+		and "last_report". These files are used to notify userspace
+		about error reports from the enrolled kernel subsystems (those
+		that use error_report_start/error_report_end tracepoints).
+
+		"report_count" contains the current number of reported errors.
+		This number is incremented every time the error_report_end
+		trace event occurs in the kernel.
+
+		"last_report" contains the most recent error report; concurrent
+		report generation results in collection of any one report
+		("last_report" may not be the last shown on the console).
+		A "report" is everything the task had printed to the console
+		between issuing the error_report_start and error_report_end
+		trace events.
+
+		Due to sysfs limitations, the report size is truncated at
+		PAGE_SIZE. To save space, the leading info in square brackets
+		printed by CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME and CONFIG_PRINTK_CALLER is
+		trimmed from the output lines.
+
+		Both files use sysfs_notify() to notify userspace about
+		changes. Userspace programs can use poll() to block until an
+		error is reported:
+
+			pfd.fd = fd;
+			pfd.events = POLLPRI;
+			while (1) {
+				lseek(pfd.fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+				poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
+				read(pfd.fd, buffer, PAGE_SIZE);
+				/* Process the report in @buffer. */
+			}
+
+		Files in /sys/kernel/error_report/ are available when
+		CONFIG_ERROR_REPORT_NOTIFY is enabled.
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