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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore
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On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 14:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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> In fact, this applies to at least all the BookS server platforms...
>
> Things that come to mind:
>
> - nvram_64.c duplicates generic_nvram.c as far as the user accessors
> are concerned, it should be possible to get rid of code there. Either
> the arch or the generic one (*)
>
> - The nvram partition management should move to generic. While at it
> factor in the powermac variant (same stuff, mostly duplicated code)
>
> - powernv wants all the goodies that pseries has, as does cell.

- It's stupid for userspace to re-implement the whole partition scheme,
so let's add ioctl's to lookup partitions by name & type. We could turn
the whole thing into sysfs instead too which might be better .... (ie
a file per partition).

> (*) I wonder about that generic stuff... userspace might want to start
> doing things like resizing the common partition if not big enough etc...
> For that we might want to add more specific ioctl's. Is anybody other
> than us using generic_nvram ? I don't like adding ioctl's like that
> to a generic driver, maybe we could just make it call into something
> like arch_nvram_ioctl() and have an empty weak variant instead of the
> current ifdef game.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
> > Changes from v2:
> > - Fix renaming of pstore type ids in nvram.c
> >
> > Changes from v1:
> > - Reduce #ifdefs by and remove forward declarations of pstore callbacks
> > - Handle return value of nvram_write_os_partition
> > - Remove empty pstore callbacks and register pstore only when pstore
> > is configured
> > ---
> >
> > Aruna Balakrishnaiah (8):
> > powerpc/pseries: Remove syslog prefix in uncompressed oops text
> > powerpc/pseries: Add version and timestamp to oops header
> > powerpc/pseries: Introduce generic read function to read nvram-partitions
> > powerpc/pseries: Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore
> > powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore
> > powerpc/pseries: Distinguish between a os-partition and non-os partition
> > powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore
> > powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore
> >
> >
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c | 353 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > fs/pstore/inode.c | 9 +
> > include/linux/pstore.h | 4
> > 3 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> >
>




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