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# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
pstore: Tool to archive contents of pstore This patch introduces the systemd pstore service which will archive the contents of the Linux persistent storage filesystem, pstore, to other storage, thus preserving the existing information contained in the pstore, and clearing pstore storage for future error events. Linux provides a persistent storage file system, pstore[1], that can store error records when the kernel dies (or reboots or powers-off). These records in turn can be referenced to debug kernel problems (currently the kernel stuffs the tail of the dmesg, which also contains a stack backtrace, into pstore). The pstore file system supports a variety of backends that map onto persistent storage, such as the ACPI ERST[2, Section 18.5 Error Serialization] and UEFI variables[3 Appendix N Common Platform Error Record]. The pstore backends typically offer a relatively small amount of persistent storage, e.g. 64KiB, which can quickly fill up and thus prevent subsequent kernel crashes from recording errors. Thus there is a need to monitor and extract the pstore contents so that future kernel problems can also record information in the pstore. The pstore service is independent of the kdump service. In cloud environments specifically, host and guest filesystems are on remote filesystems (eg. iSCSI or NFS), thus kdump relies [implicitly and/or explicitly] upon proper operation of networking software *and* hardware *and* infrastructure. Thus it may not be possible to capture a kernel coredump to a file since writes over the network may not be possible. The pstore backend, on the other hand, is completely local and provides a path to store error records which will survive a reboot and aid in post-mortem debugging. Usage Notes: This tool moves files from /sys/fs/pstore into /var/lib/systemd/pstore. To enable kernel recording of error records into pstore, one must either pass crash_kexec_post_notifiers[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/kernel/parameters/crash_kexec_post_notifiers'. This option invokes the recording of errors into pstore *before* an attempt to kexec/kdump on a kernel crash. Optionally, to record reboots and shutdowns in the pstore, one can either pass the printk.always_kmsg_dump[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/printk/parameters/always_kmsg_dump'. This option enables code on the shutdown path to record information via pstore. This pstore service is a oneshot service. When run, the service invokes systemd-pstore which is a tool that performs the following: - reads the pstore.conf configuration file - collects the lists of files in the pstore (eg. /sys/fs/pstore) - for certain file types (eg. dmesg) a handler is invoked - for all other files, the file is moved from pstore - In the case of dmesg handler, final processing occurs as such: - files processed in reverse lexigraphical order to faciliate reconstruction of original dmesg - the filename is examined to determine which dmesg it is a part - the file is appended to the reconstructed dmesg For example, the following pstore contents: root@vm356:~# ls -al /sys/fs/pstore total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 May 9 09:50 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 results in the following: root@vm356:~# ls -al /var/lib/systemd/pstore/155741337/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 40 May 9 09:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26754 May 9 09:50 dmesg.txt where dmesg.txt is reconstructed from the group of related dmesg-efi-155741337* files. Configuration file: The pstore.conf configuration file has four settings, described below. - Storage : one of "none", "external", or "journal". With "none", this tool leaves the contents of pstore untouched. With "external", the contents of the pstore are moved into the /var/lib/systemd/pstore, as well as logged into the journal. With "journal", the contents of the pstore are recorded only in the systemd journal. The default is "external". - Unlink : is a boolean. When "true", the default, then files in the pstore are removed once processed. When "false", processing of the pstore occurs normally, but the pstore files remain. References: [1] "Persistent storage for a kernel's dying breath", March 23, 2011. https://lwn.net/Articles/434821/ [2] "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification", version 6.2, May 2017. https://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf [3] "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification", version 2.8, March 2019. https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf [4] "The kernel’s command-line parameters", https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
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[Unit]
Description=Platform Persistent Storage Archival
Documentation=man:systemd-pstore(8)
pstore: run only when /sys/fs/pstore is not empty
2019-07-22 14:09:12 +09:00
ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=/sys/fs/pstore
pstore: Don't start systemd-pstore.service in containers Usually it is not useful and can also fail making boot-and-services autopkgtest fail.
2019-12-16 19:03:19 +01:00
ConditionVirtualization=!container
pstore: Tool to archive contents of pstore This patch introduces the systemd pstore service which will archive the contents of the Linux persistent storage filesystem, pstore, to other storage, thus preserving the existing information contained in the pstore, and clearing pstore storage for future error events. Linux provides a persistent storage file system, pstore[1], that can store error records when the kernel dies (or reboots or powers-off). These records in turn can be referenced to debug kernel problems (currently the kernel stuffs the tail of the dmesg, which also contains a stack backtrace, into pstore). The pstore file system supports a variety of backends that map onto persistent storage, such as the ACPI ERST[2, Section 18.5 Error Serialization] and UEFI variables[3 Appendix N Common Platform Error Record]. The pstore backends typically offer a relatively small amount of persistent storage, e.g. 64KiB, which can quickly fill up and thus prevent subsequent kernel crashes from recording errors. Thus there is a need to monitor and extract the pstore contents so that future kernel problems can also record information in the pstore. The pstore service is independent of the kdump service. In cloud environments specifically, host and guest filesystems are on remote filesystems (eg. iSCSI or NFS), thus kdump relies [implicitly and/or explicitly] upon proper operation of networking software *and* hardware *and* infrastructure. Thus it may not be possible to capture a kernel coredump to a file since writes over the network may not be possible. The pstore backend, on the other hand, is completely local and provides a path to store error records which will survive a reboot and aid in post-mortem debugging. Usage Notes: This tool moves files from /sys/fs/pstore into /var/lib/systemd/pstore. To enable kernel recording of error records into pstore, one must either pass crash_kexec_post_notifiers[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/kernel/parameters/crash_kexec_post_notifiers'. This option invokes the recording of errors into pstore *before* an attempt to kexec/kdump on a kernel crash. Optionally, to record reboots and shutdowns in the pstore, one can either pass the printk.always_kmsg_dump[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/printk/parameters/always_kmsg_dump'. This option enables code on the shutdown path to record information via pstore. This pstore service is a oneshot service. When run, the service invokes systemd-pstore which is a tool that performs the following: - reads the pstore.conf configuration file - collects the lists of files in the pstore (eg. /sys/fs/pstore) - for certain file types (eg. dmesg) a handler is invoked - for all other files, the file is moved from pstore - In the case of dmesg handler, final processing occurs as such: - files processed in reverse lexigraphical order to faciliate reconstruction of original dmesg - the filename is examined to determine which dmesg it is a part - the file is appended to the reconstructed dmesg For example, the following pstore contents: root@vm356:~# ls -al /sys/fs/pstore total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 May 9 09:50 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 results in the following: root@vm356:~# ls -al /var/lib/systemd/pstore/155741337/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 40 May 9 09:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26754 May 9 09:50 dmesg.txt where dmesg.txt is reconstructed from the group of related dmesg-efi-155741337* files. Configuration file: The pstore.conf configuration file has four settings, described below. - Storage : one of "none", "external", or "journal". With "none", this tool leaves the contents of pstore untouched. With "external", the contents of the pstore are moved into the /var/lib/systemd/pstore, as well as logged into the journal. With "journal", the contents of the pstore are recorded only in the systemd journal. The default is "external". - Unlink : is a boolean. When "true", the default, then files in the pstore are removed once processed. When "false", processing of the pstore occurs normally, but the pstore files remain. References: [1] "Persistent storage for a kernel's dying breath", March 23, 2011. https://lwn.net/Articles/434821/ [2] "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification", version 6.2, May 2017. https://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf [3] "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification", version 2.8, March 2019. https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf [4] "The kernel’s command-line parameters", https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
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DefaultDependencies=no
units: make sure systemd-pstore stops at shutdown This doesn't matter too much given that the service doesn't do anything on shutdown, but let's still stop it to make things cleaner.
2020-04-08 16:25:03 +02:00
Conflicts=shutdown.target
Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target
pstore: do not try to load all known pstore modules Commit 70e74a5997 ("pstore: Run after modules are loaded") added After= and Wants= entries for all known kernel modules providing a pstore. While adding these dependencies on systems where one of the modules is not present, or not configured, should not have a real affect on the system, it can produce annoying error messages in the kernel log. E.g. "mtd device must be supplied (device name is empty)" when the mtdpstore module is not configured correctly. Since dependencies cannot be removed with drop-ins, if a distro wants to remove some of these modules from systemd-pstore.service, they need to patch units/systemd-pstore.service.in. On the other hand, if they want to append to the dependencies this can be done by shipping a drop-in. Since the original intent of the previous commit was to fix [1], which only requires the efi_pstore module, remove all other kernel module dependencies from systemd-pstore.service, and let distros ship drop-ins to add dependencies if needed. [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18540
2022-09-07 13:25:13 -04:00
After=modprobe@efi_pstore.service
Wants=modprobe@efi_pstore.service
pstore: Tool to archive contents of pstore This patch introduces the systemd pstore service which will archive the contents of the Linux persistent storage filesystem, pstore, to other storage, thus preserving the existing information contained in the pstore, and clearing pstore storage for future error events. Linux provides a persistent storage file system, pstore[1], that can store error records when the kernel dies (or reboots or powers-off). These records in turn can be referenced to debug kernel problems (currently the kernel stuffs the tail of the dmesg, which also contains a stack backtrace, into pstore). The pstore file system supports a variety of backends that map onto persistent storage, such as the ACPI ERST[2, Section 18.5 Error Serialization] and UEFI variables[3 Appendix N Common Platform Error Record]. The pstore backends typically offer a relatively small amount of persistent storage, e.g. 64KiB, which can quickly fill up and thus prevent subsequent kernel crashes from recording errors. Thus there is a need to monitor and extract the pstore contents so that future kernel problems can also record information in the pstore. The pstore service is independent of the kdump service. In cloud environments specifically, host and guest filesystems are on remote filesystems (eg. iSCSI or NFS), thus kdump relies [implicitly and/or explicitly] upon proper operation of networking software *and* hardware *and* infrastructure. Thus it may not be possible to capture a kernel coredump to a file since writes over the network may not be possible. The pstore backend, on the other hand, is completely local and provides a path to store error records which will survive a reboot and aid in post-mortem debugging. Usage Notes: This tool moves files from /sys/fs/pstore into /var/lib/systemd/pstore. To enable kernel recording of error records into pstore, one must either pass crash_kexec_post_notifiers[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/kernel/parameters/crash_kexec_post_notifiers'. This option invokes the recording of errors into pstore *before* an attempt to kexec/kdump on a kernel crash. Optionally, to record reboots and shutdowns in the pstore, one can either pass the printk.always_kmsg_dump[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/printk/parameters/always_kmsg_dump'. This option enables code on the shutdown path to record information via pstore. This pstore service is a oneshot service. When run, the service invokes systemd-pstore which is a tool that performs the following: - reads the pstore.conf configuration file - collects the lists of files in the pstore (eg. /sys/fs/pstore) - for certain file types (eg. dmesg) a handler is invoked - for all other files, the file is moved from pstore - In the case of dmesg handler, final processing occurs as such: - files processed in reverse lexigraphical order to faciliate reconstruction of original dmesg - the filename is examined to determine which dmesg it is a part - the file is appended to the reconstructed dmesg For example, the following pstore contents: root@vm356:~# ls -al /sys/fs/pstore total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 May 9 09:50 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 results in the following: root@vm356:~# ls -al /var/lib/systemd/pstore/155741337/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 40 May 9 09:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26754 May 9 09:50 dmesg.txt where dmesg.txt is reconstructed from the group of related dmesg-efi-155741337* files. Configuration file: The pstore.conf configuration file has four settings, described below. - Storage : one of "none", "external", or "journal". With "none", this tool leaves the contents of pstore untouched. With "external", the contents of the pstore are moved into the /var/lib/systemd/pstore, as well as logged into the journal. With "journal", the contents of the pstore are recorded only in the systemd journal. The default is "external". - Unlink : is a boolean. When "true", the default, then files in the pstore are removed once processed. When "false", processing of the pstore occurs normally, but the pstore files remain. References: [1] "Persistent storage for a kernel's dying breath", March 23, 2011. https://lwn.net/Articles/434821/ [2] "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification", version 6.2, May 2017. https://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf [3] "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification", version 2.8, March 2019. https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf [4] "The kernel’s command-line parameters", https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
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[Service]
Type=oneshot
meson: use jinja2 for unit templates We don't need two (and half) templating systems anymore, yay! I'm keeping the changes minimal, to make the diff manageable. Some enhancements due to a better templating system might be possible in the future. For handling of '## ' — see the next commit.
2021-05-16 11:55:36 +02:00
ExecStart={{ROOTLIBEXECDIR}}/systemd-pstore
pstore: Tool to archive contents of pstore This patch introduces the systemd pstore service which will archive the contents of the Linux persistent storage filesystem, pstore, to other storage, thus preserving the existing information contained in the pstore, and clearing pstore storage for future error events. Linux provides a persistent storage file system, pstore[1], that can store error records when the kernel dies (or reboots or powers-off). These records in turn can be referenced to debug kernel problems (currently the kernel stuffs the tail of the dmesg, which also contains a stack backtrace, into pstore). The pstore file system supports a variety of backends that map onto persistent storage, such as the ACPI ERST[2, Section 18.5 Error Serialization] and UEFI variables[3 Appendix N Common Platform Error Record]. The pstore backends typically offer a relatively small amount of persistent storage, e.g. 64KiB, which can quickly fill up and thus prevent subsequent kernel crashes from recording errors. Thus there is a need to monitor and extract the pstore contents so that future kernel problems can also record information in the pstore. The pstore service is independent of the kdump service. In cloud environments specifically, host and guest filesystems are on remote filesystems (eg. iSCSI or NFS), thus kdump relies [implicitly and/or explicitly] upon proper operation of networking software *and* hardware *and* infrastructure. Thus it may not be possible to capture a kernel coredump to a file since writes over the network may not be possible. The pstore backend, on the other hand, is completely local and provides a path to store error records which will survive a reboot and aid in post-mortem debugging. Usage Notes: This tool moves files from /sys/fs/pstore into /var/lib/systemd/pstore. To enable kernel recording of error records into pstore, one must either pass crash_kexec_post_notifiers[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/kernel/parameters/crash_kexec_post_notifiers'. This option invokes the recording of errors into pstore *before* an attempt to kexec/kdump on a kernel crash. Optionally, to record reboots and shutdowns in the pstore, one can either pass the printk.always_kmsg_dump[4] to the kernel command line or enable via 'echo Y > /sys/module/printk/parameters/always_kmsg_dump'. This option enables code on the shutdown path to record information via pstore. This pstore service is a oneshot service. When run, the service invokes systemd-pstore which is a tool that performs the following: - reads the pstore.conf configuration file - collects the lists of files in the pstore (eg. /sys/fs/pstore) - for certain file types (eg. dmesg) a handler is invoked - for all other files, the file is moved from pstore - In the case of dmesg handler, final processing occurs as such: - files processed in reverse lexigraphical order to faciliate reconstruction of original dmesg - the filename is examined to determine which dmesg it is a part - the file is appended to the reconstructed dmesg For example, the following pstore contents: root@vm356:~# ls -al /sys/fs/pstore total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 May 9 09:50 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:49 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 results in the following: root@vm356:~# ls -al /var/lib/systemd/pstore/155741337/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 40 May 9 09:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1610 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337601001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337602001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1726 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337603001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337604001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1686 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337605001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1690 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337606001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1775 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337607001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337608001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1817 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337609001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337710001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1770 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337711001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1796 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337712001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1787 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337713001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337714001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 May 9 09:50 dmesg-efi-155741337715001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26754 May 9 09:50 dmesg.txt where dmesg.txt is reconstructed from the group of related dmesg-efi-155741337* files. Configuration file: The pstore.conf configuration file has four settings, described below. - Storage : one of "none", "external", or "journal". With "none", this tool leaves the contents of pstore untouched. With "external", the contents of the pstore are moved into the /var/lib/systemd/pstore, as well as logged into the journal. With "journal", the contents of the pstore are recorded only in the systemd journal. The default is "external". - Unlink : is a boolean. When "true", the default, then files in the pstore are removed once processed. When "false", processing of the pstore occurs normally, but the pstore files remain. References: [1] "Persistent storage for a kernel's dying breath", March 23, 2011. https://lwn.net/Articles/434821/ [2] "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification", version 6.2, May 2017. https://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf [3] "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification", version 2.8, March 2019. https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf [4] "The kernel’s command-line parameters", https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
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RemainAfterExit=yes
StateDirectory=systemd/pstore
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units: pull in systemd-pstore.service from sysinit.target sysinit.target is the target our early boot services are generally pulled in from, make systemd-pstore.service not an exception of that. Effectively this doesn't mean much, either way our unit is part of the initial transaction.
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WantedBy=sysinit.target
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