efi_pstore: Add a sequence counter to a variable name
[Issue]
Currently, a variable name, which identifies each entry, consists of type, id and ctime.
But if multiple events happens in a short time, a second/third event may fail to log because
efi_pstore can't distinguish each event with current variable name.
[Solution]
A reasonable way to identify all events precisely is introducing a sequence counter to
the variable name.
The sequence counter has already supported in a pstore layer with "oopscount".
So, this patch adds it to a variable name.
Also, it is passed to read/erase callbacks of platform drivers in accordance with
the modification of the variable name.
<before applying this patch>
a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678
a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-12345678
type:0
id:1
ctime:12345678
If multiple events happen in a short time, efi_pstore can't distinguish them because
variable names are same among them.
<after applying this patch>
it can be distinguishable by adding a sequence counter as follows.
a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-1-12345678
a variable name of Second event: dump-type0-1-2-12345678
type:0
id:1
sequence counter: 1(first event), 2(second event)
ctime:12345678
In case of a write callback executed in pstore_console_write(), "0" is added to
an argument of the write callback because it just logs all kernel messages and
doesn't need to care about multiple events.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index f6e93362..1788909 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -50,17 +50,19 @@
int (*open)(struct pstore_info *psi);
int (*close)(struct pstore_info *psi);
ssize_t (*read)(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
- struct timespec *time, char **buf,
+ int *count, struct timespec *time, char **buf,
struct pstore_info *psi);
int (*write)(enum pstore_type_id type,
enum kmsg_dump_reason reason, u64 *id,
- unsigned int part, size_t size, struct pstore_info *psi);
+ unsigned int part, int count, size_t size,
+ struct pstore_info *psi);
int (*write_buf)(enum pstore_type_id type,
enum kmsg_dump_reason reason, u64 *id,
unsigned int part, const char *buf, size_t size,
struct pstore_info *psi);
int (*erase)(enum pstore_type_id type, u64 id,
- struct timespec time, struct pstore_info *psi);
+ int count, struct timespec time,
+ struct pstore_info *psi);
void *data;
};