I have been steadily working but struggled to find a seamlessly integrated way to implement tty frontend until Guilherme inspired me that multi-backend and tty frontend are actually two separate entities. This submission presents the 3rd iteration of my efforts, listing notable changes form the v1:
1. pstore.backend no longer acts as "registered backend", but "backends eligible for registration".
2. drop subdir since it will break user space
3. drop tty frontend since I haven't yet devised a satisfactory implementation strategy
Changes from v2:
1. Fix ftrace.c build error as I did not compile with CONFIG_PSTORE_FTRACE.
A heartfelt thank you to Kees and Guilherme for your suggestions. I firmly believe that a tty frontend is crucial for kdump debugging, and I am still dedicating effort to develop one. Hope in the future I can accomplish it with deeper comprehension with tty driver :)
Yuanhe Shu (3): pstore: add multi-backend support Documentation: adjust pstore backend related document tools/testing: adjust pstore backend related selftest
Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore | 8 +- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +- fs/pstore/ftrace.c | 31 ++- fs/pstore/inode.c | 19 +- fs/pstore/internal.h | 4 +- fs/pstore/platform.c | 225 ++++++++++++------ fs/pstore/pmsg.c | 24 +- include/linux/pstore.h | 29 +++ tools/testing/selftests/pstore/common_tests | 8 +- .../selftests/pstore/pstore_post_reboot_tests | 65 ++--- tools/testing/selftests/pstore/pstore_tests | 2 +- 11 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)