On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Madper Xie <cxie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > pstore try to find duplicate entries by check both ID, type and psi. > They are not really enough for efi backend. dumped vars always have > the same type, psi and ID. like follows: > dump-type0-9-1-1382511508-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0 > dump-type0-9-1-1382515661-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0 > > The "duplicate" entries won't appear in pstorefs. And a complain will be > print -- pstore: failed to load 76 record(s) from 'efi' > So I add one more check: timespec. > > Signed-off-by: Madper Xie <cxie@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/pstore/inode.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c > index 1282384..f70f1e5 100644 > --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c > +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c > @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(allpstore); > struct pstore_private { > struct list_head list; > struct pstore_info *psi; > + struct timespec time; > enum pstore_type_id type; > u64 id; > int count; > @@ -290,7 +291,8 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count, > list_for_each_entry(pos, &allpstore, list) { > if (pos->type == type && > pos->id == id && > - pos->psi == psi) { > + pos->psi == psi && > + !timespec_compare(&pos->time, &time)) { > rc = -EEXIST; > break; > } > @@ -312,6 +314,7 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count, > private->id = id; > private->count = count; > private->psi = psi; > + memcpy(&private->time, &time, sizeof(struct timespec)); > > switch (type) { > case PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG: As discussed on IRC, why don't you compare the variable names? -- Thanks, //richard -- 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