[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device
Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes.
These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a
syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash.
This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log
buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages
are obtained by registering a console driver and checking
oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the
chances of a saving messages.
To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x
is the mtd device number to use).
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
index fbec8cd..8848e8a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
@@ -278,6 +278,14 @@
This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
+config MTD_OOPS
+ tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer"
+ depends on MTD
+ help
+ This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
+ buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some
+ later point.
+
source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"