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>
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>
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c: In function 'mtdoops_inc_counter':
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c:109: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c: In function 'mtdoops_console_sync':
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c:277: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
someone buy Dave an x86_64 box.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
mtdoops wasn't ensuring data was flushed to flash in crash situations
after recent changes in mainline kernels as tracking the
oops_in_progress variable was no longer enough. We can use the "unblank"
console call as a sync call to tell us to write out the buffer though.
Therefore add a sync function to mtdoops and call this when console
unblank events occur.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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>
Richard Purdie