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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio psto
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:45:12 +0100 |
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On 18/11/2016 04:32, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> In addition, the firmware will need to reserve a few KB of RAM for the error
>> log
>> address range (I checked a real system and it reserves 8KB). The first eight
>> bytes are needed for the record identifier interface, because there's no such
>> thing as 64-bit I/O ports, and the rest can be used for the actual buffer.
>
> Is there a limit on the size? It'd be great if it can use a few MB..
Yes, you can make it customizable.
>>> Also I need to control pstore driver like using bigger buffer,
>>> enabling specific message types and so on if ERST supports. Is it
>>> possible for ERST to provide such information?
>>
>> It's the normal pstore driver, same as on a real server. What exactly do you
>> need?
>
> Well, I don't want to send additional pstore messages to the device if
> it cannot handle them properly - for example, ftrace message should not
> overwrite kmsg dump. It'd be great if device somehow could expose
> acceptable message types to the driver IMHO.
This is something that you have to do in the usual kernel pstore
infrastructure. It should not be specific to virtualization.
Paolo
> Btw I prefer using the kvmtool for my kernel work since it's much more
> simpler..
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Namhyung Kim, 2016/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Namhyung Kim, 2016/11/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/11/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Namhyung Kim, 2016/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver,
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