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authorWeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com>2020-03-25 16:55:06 +0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-05-31 19:49:01 -0700
commit78c08247b9d3e03192f8b359aa079024e805a948 (patch)
treeebc4c79461299d67d159c672c86b52e6b6c8acc7 /drivers/mtd/Kconfig
parentf8feafeaeedbf0a324c373c5fa29a2098a69c458 (diff)
mtd: Support kmsg dumper based on pstore/blk
This introduces mtdpstore, which is similar to mtdoops but more powerful. It uses pstore/blk, and aims to store panic and oops logs to a flash partition, where pstore can later read back and present as files in the mounted pstore filesystem. To make mtdpstore work, the "blkdev" of pstore/blk should be set as MTD device name or MTD device number. For more details, see Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst This solves a number of issues: - Work duplication: both of pstore and mtdoops do the same job storing panic/oops log. They have very similar logic, registering to kmsg dumper and storing logs to several chunks one by one. - Layer violations: drivers should provides methods instead of polices. MTD should provide read/write/erase operations, and allow a higher level drivers to provide the chunk management, kmsg dump configuration, etc. - Missing features: pstore provides many additional features, including presenting the logs as files, logging dump time and count, and supporting other frontends like pmsg, console, etc. Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-11-keescook@chromium.org/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589266715-4168-1-git-send-email-liaoweixiong@allwinnertech.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
index 42d401ea60ee..6ddab796216d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
@@ -170,6 +170,16 @@ config MTD_OOPS
buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some
later point.
+config MTD_PSTORE
+ tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer based on pstore"
+ depends on PSTORE_BLK
+ help
+ This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
+ buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back as files after
+ mounting pstore filesystem.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config MTD_SWAP
tristate "Swap on MTD device support"
depends on MTD && SWAP