linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] pstore: directly mapped regions

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Message-ID: <c4b48faeae8531e670ea5909800d1a0bfed69862.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:23:35 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@...aro.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
 	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, kees@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
 rafael@...nel.org, 	dakr@...nel.org, andersson@...nel.org,
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 senozhatsky@...omium.org, quic_mojha@...cinc.com, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] pstore: directly mapped regions

On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 12:16 +0200, Eugen Hristev wrote:

> This series comes as an RFC proposed solution to enhance pstore and
> devcoredump with the following functionality:

...

> This patch series attempts to solve this by reusing existing
> infrastructure in pstore and devcoredump, and provide a copy-free

...

You mention devcoredump multiple times, but it almost seems like you
don't even know what devcoredump does? I don't see how there's any
relation at all, and the code added to it seems to have no relation to
the actual functionality of devcoredump either?

johannes