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Using /dev/pstore as a mount point for the pstore filesystem is slightly
awkward.  We don't normally mount filesystems in /dev/ and the /dev/pstore
file isn't created automatically by anything.  While this method will
still work, we can create a persistent mount point in sysfs.  This will
put pstore on par with things like cgroups and efivarfs.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Josh Boyer authored and Tony Luck committed Feb 12, 2013
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
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Where: /dev/pstore/...
Where: /sys/fs/pstore/... (or /dev/pstore/...)
Date: March 2011
Kernel Version: 2.6.39
Contact: tony.luck@intel.com
Expand All @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
of the console log is captured, but other interesting
data can also be saved.

# mount -t pstore -o kmsg_bytes=8000 - /dev/pstore
# mount -t pstore -o kmsg_bytes=8000 - /sys/fs/pstore

$ ls -l /dev/pstore
$ ls -l /sys/fs/pstore/
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7896 Nov 30 15:38 dmesg-erst-1

Expand All @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
the file will signal to the underlying persistent storage
device that it can reclaim the space for later re-use.

$ rm /dev/pstore/dmesg-erst-1
$ rm /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-erst-1

The expectation is that all files in /dev/pstore
The expectation is that all files in /sys/fs/pstore/
will be saved elsewhere and erased from persistent store
soon after boot to free up space ready for the next
catastrophe.
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18 changes: 17 additions & 1 deletion fs/pstore/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -418,9 +418,25 @@ static struct file_system_type pstore_fs_type = {
.kill_sb = pstore_kill_sb,
};

static struct kobject *pstore_kobj;

static int __init init_pstore_fs(void)
{
return register_filesystem(&pstore_fs_type);
int err = 0;

/* Create a convenient mount point for people to access pstore */
pstore_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("pstore", fs_kobj);
if (!pstore_kobj) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}

err = register_filesystem(&pstore_fs_type);
if (err < 0)
kobject_put(pstore_kobj);

out:
return err;
}
module_init(init_pstore_fs)

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