pstore: Add persistent function tracing

With this support kernel can save function call chain log into a
persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot
through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function
was last called before a reset or panic.

We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time.

p.s.
Mostly the code comes from trace_persistent.c driver found in the
Android git tree, written by Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
(according to sign-off history). I reworked the driver a little bit,
and ported it to pstore.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-09 17:10:41 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 897dba0274
commit 060287b8c4
7 changed files with 208 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(pstore_work, pstore_dowork);
* calls to pstore_register()
*/
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pstore_lock);
static struct pstore_info *psinfo;
struct pstore_info *psinfo;
static char *backend;