Add ABI documentation for files in /sys/kernel/error_report/
Requested-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <el...@google.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com>
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.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..666d039f93a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-error_report
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+What: /sys/kernel/error_report/
+Date: January 2021
+Contact: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com>,
+ Marco Elver <el...@google.com>
+Description:
+ /sys/kernel/error_report/ contains two files: "report_count"
+ and "last_report". These files are used to notify userspace
+ about error reports from the enrolled kernel subsystems (those
+ that use error_report_start/error_report_end tracepoints).
+
+ "report_count" contains the current number of reported errors.
+ This number is incremented every time the error_report_end
+ trace event occurs in the kernel.
+
+ "last_report" contains the most recent error report; concurrent
+ report generation results in collection of any one report
+ ("last_report" may not be the last shown on the console).
+ A "report" is everything the task had printed to the console
+ between issuing the error_report_start and error_report_end
+ trace events.
+
+ Due to sysfs limitations, the report size is truncated at
+ PAGE_SIZE. To save space, the leading info in square brackets
+ printed by CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME and CONFIG_PRINTK_CALLER is
+ trimmed from the output lines.
+
+ Both files use sysfs_notify() to notify userspace about
+ changes. Userspace programs can use poll() to block until an
+ error is reported:
+
+ pfd.fd = fd;
+ pfd.events = POLLPRI;
+ while (1) {
+ lseek(pfd.fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+ poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
+ read(pfd.fd, buffer, PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* Process the report in @buffer. */
+ }
+
+ Files in /sys/kernel/error_report/ are available when
+ CONFIG_ERROR_REPORT_NOTIFY is enabled.
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