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[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: Update copyright notices Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present When the MTD provides a panic_write function, use it. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-06 10:17:50 +00:00
[MTD] Fix mtdoops.c compilation drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c: In function ‘mtdoops_console_sync’: drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c:329: error: implicit declaration of function ‘in_interrupt’ Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-07 10:50:57 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size Make the maximum mtdoops partition size to be 8MiB. Indeed, it does not make sense to use anything larger than that anyway. This limit makes it possible to catch stupid mistakes where the user gives e.g., a rootfs partition to mtdoops (which will happily erase it). Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 08:08:41 +02:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops.c: make struct oops_cxt static again struct oops_cxt needlessly became global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-04-18 13:44:11 -07:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups Various minor cleaups to mtdoops: * Don't support the mtd->erasesize < OOPS_PAGE_SIZE case * Tweak printks and make the device mtdoops connects to more visible * CON_PRINTBUFFER flag is uneeded Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 10:25:55 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: introduce mtd_erase interface This patch is part of a patch-set which changes the MTD interface from 'mtd->func()' form to 'mtd_func()' form. We need this because we want to add common code to to all drivers in the mtd core level, which is impossible with the current interface when MTD clients call driver functions like 'read()' or 'write()' directly. At this point we just introduce a new inline wrapper function, but later some of them are expected to gain more code. E.g., the input parameters check should be moved to the wrappers rather than be duplicated at many drivers. This particular patch introduced the 'mtd_erase()' interface. The following patches add all the other interfaces one by one. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-23 15:25:39 +02:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Fix an off by one error Fix an off by one error in the mtdoops driver Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:17:41 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Fix an off by one error Fix an off by one error in the mtdoops driver Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:17:41 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor loop We can clean up the loop logic a bit, here. This refactoring was enabled in part by: Commit bb4a09866 [mtdoops: clean-up new MTD API usage] Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-05-11 13:30:33 -07:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Fix an off by one error Fix an off by one error in the mtdoops driver Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:17:41 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor loop We can clean up the loop logic a bit, here. This refactoring was enabled in part by: Commit bb4a09866 [mtdoops: clean-up new MTD API usage] Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-05-11 13:30:33 -07:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking Add further error return code checks to the mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:09 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking Add further error return code checks to the mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:09 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtdoops: clean-up new MTD API usage Let's remove useless 'mtd_can_have_bb()' function invocations. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-02-03 11:23:57 +02:00
mtd: introduce mtd_block_markbad interface Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-23 19:37:38 +02:00
mtdoops: clean-up new MTD API usage Let's remove useless 'mtd_can_have_bb()' function invocations. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-02-03 11:23:57 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking Add further error return code checks to the mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:09 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present When the MTD provides a panic_write function, use it. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-06 10:17:50 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly Instead of checking if 'mtd->panic_write' is defined, call 'mtd_panic_write()' and check the error code - '-EOPNOTSUPP' will be returned if the function is not defined. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-28 17:27:18 +02:00
mtd: introduce mtd_panic_write interface Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-23 18:03:17 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly Instead of checking if 'mtd->panic_write' is defined, call 'mtd_panic_write()' and check the error code - '-EOPNOTSUPP' will be returned if the function is not defined. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-28 17:27:18 +02:00
mtd: introduce mtd_write interface Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-23 17:35:41 +02:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present When the MTD provides a panic_write function, use it. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-06 10:17:50 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking Add further error return code checks to the mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:09 +00:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtdoops: clean-up new MTD API usage Let's remove useless 'mtd_can_have_bb()' function invocations. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-02-03 11:23:57 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: skip reading initially bad blocks Use block_isbad to check and skip the bad blocks reading. This will allow to get rid of the read errors if bad blocks are present initially. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-02 15:07:17 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: introduce mtd_read interface Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-23 17:30:16 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: utilize `mtd_is_*()' functions Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
2011-09-20 18:34:25 -07:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking Add further error return code checks to the mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:09 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtdoops: don't erase flash at each boot The current version on mtdoops erase first block of mtdoops partition at each boot if there is no oops stored in flash. This can wear the flash. When mtdoops start, find_next_position is called to find the next free entry in the circular buffer. But if the flash is erased, find_next_position don't find anything (maxcount == 0xffffffff) and start with the first entry after erasing it. The scanning that is done in find_next_position already track free/used entries. So if at the end of the scanning we don't find anything, we can start at the first entry and erased the entry only if it is marked as used. Most of this is implemented in mtdoops_inc_counter, so to avoid duplicating code, if we don't find anything we set position to -1. mtdoops_inc_counter with increment it, erase the entry if needed and start as before with nextpage = 0 and nextcount = 1). Also during the scan phase, we use the MTDOOPS_KERNMSG_MAGIC to detect corruped entries. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <matthieu.castet@parrot@com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
2012-10-19 17:29:33 +02:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops Add a magic number to logged kernel oops messages so that they can be more accurately detected rather than just having to rely on the sequence number. This also allows easier detection of saved crashes by userspace. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-26 09:22:45 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtdoops: don't erase flash at each boot The current version on mtdoops erase first block of mtdoops partition at each boot if there is no oops stored in flash. This can wear the flash. When mtdoops start, find_next_position is called to find the next free entry in the circular buffer. But if the flash is erased, find_next_position don't find anything (maxcount == 0xffffffff) and start with the first entry after erasing it. The scanning that is done in find_next_position already track free/used entries. So if at the end of the scanning we don't find anything, we can start at the first entry and erased the entry only if it is marked as used. Most of this is implemented in mtdoops_inc_counter, so to avoid duplicating code, if we don't find anything we set position to -1. mtdoops_inc_counter with increment it, erase the entry if needed and start as before with nextpage = 0 and nextcount = 1). Also during the scan phase, we use the MTDOOPS_KERNMSG_MAGIC to detect corruped entries. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <matthieu.castet@parrot@com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
2012-10-19 17:29:33 +02:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content Provide an iterator to receive the log buffer content, and convert all kmsg_dump() users to it. The structured data in the kmsg buffer now contains binary data, which should no longer be copied verbatim to the kmsg_dump() users. The iterator should provide reliable access to the buffer data, and also supports proper log line-aware chunking of data while iterating. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-15 14:07:51 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
kmsg_dump: constrain mtdoops and ramoops to perform their actions only for KMSG_DUMP_PANIC This series aims to develop logging facility for enterprise use. It is important to save kernel messages reliably on enterprise system because they are helpful for diagnosing system. This series add kmsg_dump() to the paths loosing kernel messages. The use case is the following. [Use case of reboot/poweroff/halt/emergency_restart] My company has often experienced the followings in our support service. - Customer's system suddenly reboots. - Customers ask us to investigate the reason of the reboot. We recognize the fact itself because boot messages remain in /var/log/messages. However, we can't investigate the reason why the system rebooted, because the last messages don't remain. And off course we can't explain the reason. We can solve above problem with this patch as follows. Case1: reboot with command - We can see "Restarting system with command:" or ""Restarting system.". Case2: halt with command - We can see "System halted.". Case3: poweroff with command - We can see " Power down.". Case4: emergency_restart with sysrq. - We can see "Sysrq:" outputted in __handle_sysrq(). Case5: emergency_restart with softdog. - We can see "Initiating system reboot" in watchdog_fire(). So, we can distinguish the reason of reboot, poweroff, halt and emergency_restart. If customer executed reboot command, you may think the customer should know the fact. However, they often claim they don't execute the command when they rebooted system by mistake. No message remains on the current Linux kernel, so we can't show the proof to the customer. This patch improves this situation. This patch: Alters mtdoops and ramoops to perform their actions only for KMSG_DUMP_PANIC, KMSG_DUMP_OOPS and KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC because they would like to log crashes only. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-12 16:59:29 -08:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content Provide an iterator to receive the log buffer content, and convert all kmsg_dump() users to it. The structured data in the kmsg buffer now contains binary data, which should no longer be copied verbatim to the kmsg_dump() users. The iterator should provide reliable access to the buffer data, and also supports proper log line-aware chunking of data while iterating. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-15 14:07:51 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly Instead of checking if 'mtd->panic_write' is defined, call 'mtd_panic_write()' and check the error code - '-EOPNOTSUPP' will be returned if the function is not defined. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-12-28 17:27:18 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: allow MTD selection by name MTD's have both an index number and a name. Formerly, the MTD selected for mtdoops was done only by index number. With this patch, a name can be used instead. For example, the kernel command line: console=ttyMTD5 selects MTD 5 for mtdoops. But now this is also possible: console=ttyMTD,log which selects the MTD named "log" for mtdoops. This has the advantage that partitions can be added or removed that would affect the MTD index number but not the name, without having to then change the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-02-16 18:21:35 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups Various minor cleaups to mtdoops: * Don't support the mtd->erasesize < OOPS_PAGE_SIZE case * Tweak printks and make the device mtdoops connects to more visible * CON_PRINTBUFFER flag is uneeded Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 10:25:55 +00:00
mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size Make the maximum mtdoops partition size to be 8MiB. Indeed, it does not make sense to use anything larger than that anyway. This limit makes it possible to catch stupid mistakes where the user gives e.g., a rootfs partition to mtdoops (which will happily erase it). Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 08:08:41 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtdoops: fix the oops_page_used array size The array of unsigned long pointed by oops_page_used is allocated by vmalloc which requires the size to be in bytes. BITS_PER_LONG is equal to 32. If we want to allocate memory for 32 pages with one bit per page then 32 / BITS_PER_LONG is equal to 1 byte that is 8 bits. To fix it we need to multiply the result by sizeof(unsigned long) equal to 4. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-11-29 12:49:18 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content Provide an iterator to receive the log buffer content, and convert all kmsg_dump() users to it. The structured data in the kmsg buffer now contains binary data, which should no longer be copied verbatim to the kmsg_dump() users. The iterator should provide reliable access to the buffer data, and also supports proper log line-aware chunking of data while iterating. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-15 14:07:51 +02:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size Make the maximum mtdoops partition size to be 8MiB. Indeed, it does not make sense to use anything larger than that anyway. This limit makes it possible to catch stupid mistakes where the user gives e.g., a rootfs partition to mtdoops (which will happily erase it). Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 08:08:41 +02:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups Various minor cleaups to mtdoops: * Don't support the mtd->erasesize < OOPS_PAGE_SIZE case * Tweak printks and make the device mtdoops connects to more visible * CON_PRINTBUFFER flag is uneeded Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 10:25:55 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work(). If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to use the sync flushes at all and they're going away. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-08-20 14:51:24 -07:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable The main justification for this is to allow catching long messages during a panic, where the top part might otherwise be lost since moving to the next block can require a flash erase. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:19 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups While looking into the mtdoops module, I've spotted several minor imperfections. This patch addresses them. Namely: 1. Remove several trailing white-spaces and tabs 2. Check 'vmalloc()' return code straight away, not several lines below in the 'mtdoops_console_init()' function. 3. Clean up printks - make them more consistent and use the same code formatting style for them. 4. Remove silly style of putting brackets around everything in "if" operators. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-11 13:40:40 +03:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue Writing to the flash needs to be done in a workqueue. The console write functions may be called in any context which can lead to lockups otherwise. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-01-29 11:27:11 +00:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array This patch makes mtdoops keep track of used/unused pages in an array instead of scanning the flash after a write. The advantage with this approach is that it avoids calling mtd->read on a panic, which is not possible for all mtd drivers. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 13:41:11 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper The last messages which happens before a crash might contain interesting information about the crash. This patch reworks mtdoops using the kmsg_dumper support instead of a console, which simplifies the code and also includes the messages before the oops started. On oops callbacks, the MTD device write is scheduled in a work queue (to be able to use the regular mtd->write call), while panics call mtd->panic_write directly. Thus, if panic_on_oops is set, the oops will be written out during the panic. A parameter to specify which mtd device to use (number or name), as well as a flag, writable at runtime, to toggle wheter to dump oopses or only panics (since oopses can often be handled by regular syslog). The patch was massaged and amended by Artem. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-03 14:19:03 +01:00
[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-29 13:31:42 +01:00