From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751719Ab1GRUbL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:31:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23936 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355Ab1GRUbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:31:09 -0400 From: Matthew Garrett To: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mikew@google.com, tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Add an EFI pstore backend Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:30:24 -0400 Message-Id: <1311021033-7483-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f07:1371:721a:4ff:fed2:9f6c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg@redhat.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org EFI provides enough non-volatile storage to make it convenient for storing crash dumps. Extend the pstore API a little to make it easier to handle this, then add support to efivars. Some cleanup patches from Mike Waychison then follow.