powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore
This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].
Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
index f7392f6..14cc486 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
@@ -138,10 +138,17 @@
.os_partition = false
};
+static struct nvram_os_partition common_partition = {
+ .name = "common",
+ .index = -1,
+ .os_partition = false
+};
+
static enum pstore_type_id nvram_type_ids[] = {
PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG,
PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_RTAS,
PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_OF,
+ PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON,
-1
};
static int read_type;
@@ -530,7 +537,7 @@
}
/*
- * Reads the oops/panic report, rtas and of-config partition.
+ * Reads the oops/panic report, rtas, of-config and common partition.
* Returns the length of the data we read from each partition.
* Returns 0 if we've been called before.
*/
@@ -566,6 +573,14 @@
time->tv_sec = 0;
time->tv_nsec = 0;
break;
+ case PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON:
+ sig = NVRAM_SIG_SYS;
+ part = &common_partition;
+ *type = PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON;
+ *id = PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON;
+ time->tv_sec = 0;
+ time->tv_nsec = 0;
+ break;
default:
return 0;
}