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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, greg@kroah.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [concept & "good taste" review] persistent store
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:49:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17090.1292842179@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=9UZ5BYWo5xT=jh0upRP6PraH4S=t=tL49YRdr@mail.gmail.com>

Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure how big the store is on my system ... the ACPI/ERST
> interface on this machine limits each entry to just under 8KB. But
> that isn't inherent to to ERST, both larger and smaller values would
> be an option. 8K seems quite useful for kmsg_dump purposes as
> it grabs a significant number of lines leading up to the oops/panic.

How are things written to the store?  Is it a record-based affair?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-13 18:16 [concept & "good taste" review] persistent store Luck, Tony
2010-12-17  1:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-17  6:28   ` Tony Luck
2010-12-17 18:09     ` Tony Luck
2010-12-17 18:19       ` James Bottomley
2010-12-17 21:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-17 23:08         ` Tony Luck
2010-12-17 23:11           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-17 23:53             ` Tony Luck
2010-12-18 18:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-18 23:06                 ` Tony Luck
2010-12-19  9:17                   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-12-19 17:01                     ` Florian Mickler
2010-12-19 20:17                     ` Tony Luck
2010-12-20  2:47                       ` Huang Ying
2010-12-20 10:46                         ` David Howells
2010-12-21  0:41                           ` Huang Ying
2010-12-21 10:10                             ` David Howells
2010-12-22  0:26                               ` Huang Ying
2010-12-22  0:32                                 ` David Howells
2010-12-22  0:43                                   ` Huang Ying
2010-12-22  0:53                                 ` david
2010-12-22  7:34                                   ` Tony Luck
2010-12-20 17:19                         ` Tony Luck
2010-12-21  0:48                           ` Huang Ying
2010-12-21  5:13                             ` Tony Luck
2010-12-21  7:42                               ` Borislav Petkov
2010-12-20  7:26                       ` Borislav Petkov
2010-12-20 17:18                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-20 18:58                           ` Borislav Petkov
2010-12-20 21:09                             ` Tony Luck
2010-12-20 10:49                       ` David Howells [this message]
2010-12-20 16:52                         ` Tony Luck

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