δΊ 2014/6/25 8:41, Zhang, Yanmin ει:
>
> On 2014/6/20 18:47, Liu hua wrote:
>> On 2014/6/20 7:42, Luck, Tony wrote:
>>
>>>> BTW, I note that "extern struct pstore_info *psinfo" locates in
>>>> fs/pstore/internal.h. So users out of directory "fs/pstore/" can not use
>>>> pstore to
>>>> record messages. We do not want other kernel users to use pstore, right?
>>>> And can we
>>>> break this?
>>> Yes we can make some interface visible to the rest of the kernel ...
>>> probably
>>> not the raw "*psinfo" though. Perhaps the pstore_alloc_ring_buffer() and
>>> pstore_write_ring_buffer() functions should be the ones exported to the
>>> rest of the kernel.
>>>
>>>> ditoo.. Since other backends like efi and erst may can not privide such
>>>> ring buffer.
>>>> So pstore_alloc_ring_buffer should be a funciton pointer of pstore_info
>>>> struct.
>>> Yes - that allows less capable backend like ERST and efivars to not provide
>>> the
>>> service. Since it becomes internal, you can drop the "pstore_" prefix.
>>> E.g.
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> int pstore_alloc_ring_buffer(char *name, int size)
>>> {
>>> return psinfo->alloc_ring_buffer(name, size);
>>> }
>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_alloc_ring_buffer);
>>>
>>> ... and you have to find/make some global header for the "extern"
>>> declaration.
>> I will make these RFC patch series according to our discussion. Thanks you
>> very to
>> valuable advice.
>
> Sorry for seeing your email late.We already worked out some patches to
> restructure
> pstore. Would you like to try patchset
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1697680/?
>
> We have more patches available to add some flags to disable/enable specific
> zones.
That's great! I have tried your patches. BTW, Your patches do not work on ARM
platform,
before I changed linker scripts; And can we use this method in modules(I failed
to do that)?
After a quick glance and try, I think my idea is a little different from yours.
I will reply you
later.
> Yanmin
>
>
> .
>
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