Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-27 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Tony, On Tuesday 25 June 2013 09:32 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: Introducing headersize in pstore_write() API would need changes at multiple places whereits being called. The idea is to move the compression support to pstore infrastructure so that other platforms could also make use of it. Any thou

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-25 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Hi Kees, > > > On Monday 24 June 2013 11:27 PM, Kees Cook wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah >> wrote: >>> >>> The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to >>> NVRAM, >>> this

RE: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-25 Thread Luck, Tony
> Introducing headersize in pstore_write() API would need changes at > multiple places whereits being called. The idea is to move the > compression support to pstore infrastructure so that other platforms > could also make use of it. Any thoughts on the back/forward compatibility as we switch to c

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-25 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Kees, On Monday 24 June 2013 11:27 PM, Kees Cook wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file for oops messages will

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-24 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, > this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file > for oops messages will be in decompressed format making it readable. > > In cas

[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-23 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file for oops messages will be in decompressed format making it readable. In case compression fails, the patch takes care of copying the header added by

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-06-04 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Ben, On Saturday 01 June 2013 10:24 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:26 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file for oops

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-05-31 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:26 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, > this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file > for oops messages will be in decompressed format making it readable. > > In ca

[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore

2013-04-26 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
The patch set supports compression of oops messages while writing to NVRAM, this helps in capturing more of oops data to lnx,oops-log. The pstore file for oops messages will be in decompressed format making it readable. In case compression fails, the patch takes care of copying the header added by