From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"mikew@google.com" <mikew@google.com>,
"dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net"
<dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>,
"dzickus@redhat.com" <dzickus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:26:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120724212616.GA29546@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F19370D52@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:12:25PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > I think we inevitably lose in that scenario. I'd need to verify, but my
> > recollection is that overwriting existing variables may be equivalent to
> > a delete/create cycle.
>
> This would mean that EFI really wants the OS to treat EFI variables as pretty much
> exclusively read-only. Any activity which periodically updates a variable would
> eventually run into problems in an EFI implementation that loses the old space
> until a reset.
Sure. I'll test with a few implementations and see what I can figure
out. We may just want to reserve some space for pstore, then have delete
in pstore simply map to hiding the entries rather than deleting them.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-24 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 21:13 [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-19 21:22 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-19 21:43 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-19 22:10 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-19 23:08 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-19 23:42 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-20 0:39 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-20 3:03 ` Don Zickus
2012-07-20 13:24 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-20 13:42 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-20 14:29 ` Don Zickus
2012-07-20 16:56 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-20 18:49 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-23 14:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-24 17:23 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-24 17:52 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-24 18:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-24 19:57 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-24 20:39 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-07-24 20:54 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-24 21:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-24 21:12 ` Luck, Tony
2012-07-24 21:26 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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