Decoding the binary trace w/ a different kernel might be troublesome
since we convert addresses to symbols. For kernels with minimal changes,
the mappings would probably match, but it's not guaranteed at all.
(But still we could convert the addresses by hand, since we do print
raw addresses.)
If we use modules, the symbols could be loaded at different addresses
from the previously booted kernel, and so this would also fail, but
there's nothing we can do about it.
Also, the binary data format that pstore/ram is using in its ringbuffer
may change between the kernels, so here we too must ensure that we're
running the same kernel.
So, there are two questions really:
1. How to compute the unique kernel tag;
2. Where to store it.
In this patch we're using LINUX_VERSION_CODE, just as hibernation
(suspend-to-disk) does. This way we are protecting from the kernel
version mismatch, making sure that we're running the same kernel
version and patch level. We could use CRC of a symbol table (as
suggested by Tony Luck), but for now let's not be that strict.
And as for storing, we are using a small trick here. Instead of
allocating a dedicated buffer for the tag (i.e. another prz), or
hacking ram_core routines to "reserve" some control data in the
buffer, we are just encoding the tag into the buffer signature
(and XOR'ing it with the actual signature value, so that buffers
not needing a tag can just pass zero, which will result into the
plain old PRZ signature).
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The ftrace log size is configurable via ramoops.ftrace_size
module option, and the log itself is available via
<pstore-mount>/ftrace-ramoops file.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Don't use pstore.buf directly, instead convert the code to write_buf callback
which passes a pointer to a buffer as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is now pretty straightforward: instead of using bool, just pass
an integer. For backwards compatibility ramoops.ecc=1 means 16 bytes
ECC (using 1 byte for ECC isn't much of use anyway).
Suggested-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
persistent_ram_new() returns ERR_PTR() value on errors, so during
freeing of the przs we should check for both NULL and IS_ERR() entries,
otherwise bad things will happen.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Registering the platform driver before module_init allows us to log oopses
that happen during device probing.
This requires changing module_init to postcore_initcall, and switching
from platform_driver_probe to platform_driver_register because the
platform device is not registered when the platform driver is registered;
and because we use driver_register, now can't use create_bundle() (since
it will try to register the same driver once again), so we have to switch
to platform_device_register_data().
Also, some __init -> __devinit changes were needed.
Overall, the registration logic is now much clearer, since we have only
one driver registration point, and just an optional dummy device, which
is created from the module parameters.
Suggested-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The console log size is configurable via ramoops.console_size
module option, and the log itself is available via
<pstore-mount>/console-ramoops file.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This will help make code clearer when we'll add support for other
message types.
The patch also changes return value from -EINVAL to 0 in case of
end-of-records. The exact value doesn't matter for pstore (it should
be just <= 0), but 0 feels more correct.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This will help make code clearer when we'll add support for other
message types.
This also makes probe() much shorter and understandable, plus
makes mem/record size checking a bit easier.
Implementation detail: we now use a paddr pointer, this will
be used for allocating persistent ram zones for other message
types.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We're about to add support for other message types, so let's rename
some variables to not be confused later.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Otherwise, unlinked file will reappear on the next boot.
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Without the update, we'll only see the new dmesg buffer after the
reboot, but previously we could see it right away. Making an oops
visible in pstore filesystem before reboot is a somewhat dubious
feature, but removing it wasn't an intentional change, so let's
restore it.
For this we have to make persistent_ram_save_old() safe for calling
multiple times, and also extern it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is now straightforward: just introduce a module parameter and pass
the needed value to persistent_ram_new().
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The patch switches pstore RAM backend to use persistent_ram routines,
one step closer to the ECC support.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character
devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore.
The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed
because of the move:
1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course.
2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this
is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver
(i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still
work).
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Anton Vorontsov