Re: [PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-16 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 11:50 AM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: Currently with this patchset, pstore is not supporting compression of oops-messages since it involves some changes in the pstore framework. big_oops_buf will hold the large part of oops data which will be compressed and put to o

Re: [PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-16 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 12:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:50 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: Sure. I will have one #ifdef for declarations and one for function definitions. Declarations generally don't need #ifdef's Sorry by declarations I meant variable dec

Re: [PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:50 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > > Sure. I will have one #ifdef for declarations and one for function > definitions. Declarations generally don't need #ifdef's Cheers, Ben. ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@l

Re: [PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-15 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Michael, Thanks for reviewing my patches. On Monday 15 April 2013 01:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:53:03PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: This patch exploits pstore infrastructure in power systems. IBM's system p machines provide persistent storage for LPARs

Re: [PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:53:03PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > This patch exploits pstore infrastructure in power systems. > IBM's system p machines provide persistent storage for LPARs In the kernel we use "pseries" instead of "system p". > through NVRAM. NVRAM's lnx,oops-log partition

[PATCH 4/8] Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-10 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
This patch exploits pstore infrastructure in power systems. IBM's system p machines provide persistent storage for LPARs through NVRAM. NVRAM's lnx,oops-log partition is used to log oops messages. In case pstore registration fails it will fall back to kmsg_dump mechanism. This patch will read/writ