[RFC v5 0/4] pstore/block: new support logger for block devices

[liaoweixiong]

Why should we need pstore_block?
1. Most embedded intelligent equipment have no persistent ram, which
increases costs. We perfer to cheaper solutions, like block devices.
In fast, there is already a sample for block device logger in driver
MTD (drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c).
2. Do not any equipment have battery, which means that it lost all data
on general ram if power failure. Pstore has little to do for these
equipments.

[PATCH v5]
On patch 1:
1. rename pstore/rom to pstore/blk
2. Do not allocate any memory in the write path of panic. So, use local
array instead in function romz_recover_dmesg_meta.
3. Add C header file "linux/fs.h" to fix implicit declaration of function
   'filp_open','kernel_read'...
On patch 3:
1. If panic, do not recover pmsg but flush if it is dirty.
2. Fix erase pmsg failed.
On patch 4:
1. Create a document for pstore/blk

[PATCH v4]
On patch 1:
1. Fix always true condition '(--i >= 0) => (0-u32max >= 0)' in function
   romz_init_zones by defining variable i to 'int' rahter than
   'unsigned int'.
2. To make codes more easily to read, we use macro READ_NEXT_ZONE for
   return value of romz_dmesg_read if it need to read next zone.
   Moveover, we assign READ_NEXT_ZONE -1024 rather than 0.
3. Add 'FLUSH_META' to 'enum romz_flush_mode' and rename 'NOT_FLUSH' to
   'FLUSH_NONE'
4. Function romz_zone_write work badly with FLUSH_PART mode as badly
   address and offset to write.
On patch 3:
NEW SUPPORT psmg for pstore_rom.

[PATCH v3]
On patch 1:
Fix build as module error for undefined 'vfs_read' and 'vfs_write'
Both of 'vfs_read' and 'vfs_write' haven't be exproted yet, so we use
'kernel_read' and 'kernel_write' instead.

[PATCH v2]
On patch 1:
Fix build as module error for redefinition of 'romz_unregister' and
'romz_register'

[PATCH v1]
On patch 1:
Core codes of pstore_rom, which works well on allwinner(sunxi) platform.
On patch 2:
A sample for pstore_rom, using general ram rather than block device.

liaoweixiong (4):
  pstore/blk: new support logger for block devices
  pstore/blk: add sample for pstore_blk
  pstore/blk: support pmsg for pstore block
  Documentation: pstore/blk: create document for pstore_blk

 Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-block.rst |  226 ++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                |    1 +
 fs/pstore/Kconfig                          |   20 +
 fs/pstore/Makefile                         |    5 +
 fs/pstore/blkbuf.c                         |   46 ++
 fs/pstore/blkzone.c                        | 1168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/pstore_blk.h                 |   62 ++
 7 files changed, 1528 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-block.rst
 create mode 100644 fs/pstore/blkbuf.c
 create mode 100644 fs/pstore/blkzone.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/pstore_blk.h

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