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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Fabio M. Di Nitto" <fdinitto@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Persist printk buffer across reboots.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:08:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313170851.GA5218@fifo99.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331617001-20906-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:36AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> The last patch in this series implements a new CONFIG_PRINTK_PERSIST option
> that, when enabled, puts the printk buffer in a well-defined memory location
> so that we can keep appending to it after a reboot.  The upshot is that,
> even after a kernel panic or non-panic hard lockup, on the next boot
> userspace will be able to grab the kernel messages leading up to it.  It
> could then upload the messages to a server (for example) to keep crash
> statistics.

There's currently driver/mtd/mtdoops.c, fs/pstore/, and
drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c that do similar things
as this. Did you investigate those for potentially modifying them to add
this functionality ? If so what issues did you find?

I have a arm MSM G1 with persistent memory at 0x16d00000 size 20000bytes..
It's fairly simple you just have to ioremap the memory, but then it's good
for writing.. Currently the android ram_console uses this. How would I
convert this area for use with your changes?

Daniel

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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Fabio M. Di Nitto" <fdinitto@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Persist printk buffer across reboots.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:08:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313170851.GA5218@fifo99.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331617001-20906-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:36AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> The last patch in this series implements a new CONFIG_PRINTK_PERSIST option
> that, when enabled, puts the printk buffer in a well-defined memory location
> so that we can keep appending to it after a reboot.  The upshot is that,
> even after a kernel panic or non-panic hard lockup, on the next boot
> userspace will be able to grab the kernel messages leading up to it.  It
> could then upload the messages to a server (for example) to keep crash
> statistics.

There's currently driver/mtd/mtdoops.c, fs/pstore/, and
drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c that do similar things
as this. Did you investigate those for potentially modifying them to add
this functionality ? If so what issues did you find?

I have a arm MSM G1 with persistent memory at 0x16d00000 size 20000bytes..
It's fairly simple you just have to ioremap the memory, but then it's good
for writing.. Currently the android ram_console uses this. How would I
convert this area for use with your changes?

Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13  5:36 [PATCH 0/5] Persist printk buffer across reboots Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: bootmem: BUG() if you try to allocate bootmem too late Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: bootmem: it's okay to reserve_bootmem an invalid address Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: nobootmem: implement reserve_bootmem() in terms of memblock Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] printk: use alloc_bootmem() instead of memblock_alloc() Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  6:13   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-13  6:13     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-13  6:40     ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  6:40       ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  8:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13  8:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 21:50       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-13 21:50         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-14  2:23         ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-14  2:23           ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] printk: CONFIG_PRINTK_PERSIST: persist printk buffer across reboots Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  5:53 ` [PATCH 0/5] Persist " David Miller
2012-03-13  5:53   ` David Miller
2012-03-13  6:00   ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  6:00     ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  6:50     ` David Miller
2012-03-13  6:50       ` David Miller
2012-03-13  7:14       ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  7:14         ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  7:18         ` David Miller
2012-03-13  7:18           ` David Miller
2012-03-13  8:10           ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  8:10             ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-13  8:16             ` David Miller
2012-03-13  8:16               ` David Miller
2012-03-13 13:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-13 13:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-14  1:57     ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-14  1:57       ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-13  8:32 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-03-13  8:32   ` Stephen Boyd
2012-03-13 17:08 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2012-03-13 17:08   ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-13 22:10   ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-13 22:10     ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-14  2:19     ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-14  2:19       ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-15 22:10       ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-03-15 22:10         ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-03-14  2:21     ` Avery Pennarun
2012-03-14  2:21       ` Avery Pennarun

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