On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > [Problem] > > Currently, a variable name, which distinguishes each entry, consists of type, id and ctime. > But if multiple events happens in a short time, a second/third event may fail to log because > efi_pstore can't distinguish each event with current variable name. > > [Solution] > > A reasonable way to identify all events precisely is introducing a sequence counter to > the variable name. > > [Patch Description] > > The sequence counter has already supported in a pstore layer with "oopscount". > So, this patch adds it to a variable name. > Also, it is passed to read/erase callbacks of platform drivers in accordance with > the modification of the variable name. > > <before applying this patch> > a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678 > a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-12345678 > > type:0 > id:1 > ctime:12345678 > > If multiple events happen in a short time, efi_pstore can't distinguish them because > variable names are same among them. > > <after applying this patch> > > it can be distinguishable by adding a sequence counter as follows. > > a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-1-12345678 > a variable name of Second event: dump-type0-1-2-12345678 > > type:0 > id:1 > sequence counter: 1(first event), 2(second event) > ctime:12345678 This patch plumbs the count through the same way as you plumbed the ctime through in patch 1/2, so I'm going to hold off on commenting on this patch until we better understand i_ctime use is resolved there. I suspect that we don't want to continue adding more arguments through pstore ops this way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
