From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cbouatmailru@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, ccross@android.com,
keescook@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:49:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370062185.3766.27.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130425101851.21017.90041.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420>
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:48 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition
> in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be
> stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4].
>
.../...
> diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
> index 75d0176..d7a8fe9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pstore.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ enum pstore_type_id {
> PSTORE_TYPE_MCE = 1,
> PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE = 2,
> PSTORE_TYPE_FTRACE = 3,
> + /* PPC64 partition types */
> + PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_RTAS = 4,
> PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 255
> };
>
Not sure about that list...
What do you mean by "RTAS" ? The error logs ? What about our "common"
partition (firmware settings ?). We should probably at least define
a generic PSTORE_TYPE_FIRMWARE for firmware private stuff...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-01 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 10:17 [PATCH v3 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] powerpc/pseries: Remove syslog prefix in uncompressed oops text Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] powerpc/pseries: Add version and timestamp to oops header Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] powerpc/pseries: Introduce generic read function to read nvram-partitions Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] powerpc/pseries: Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] powerpc/pseries: Read rtas " Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-01 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-06-01 4:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-04-25 10:18 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] powerpc/pseries: Distinguish between a os-partition and non-os partition Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:19 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-04-25 10:19 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] powerpc/pseries: Read common " Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-01 4:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-04 9:02 ` Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-01 4:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-01 4:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-01 5:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-05 9:00 ` Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-05 9:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-05 9:52 ` Aruna Balakrishnaiah
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