Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] pstore/platform: Pass max_reason to kmesg dump

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 14:15 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a new member to struct pstore_info for passing information about
> kmesg dump maximum reason. This allows a finer control of what kmesg
> dumps are sent to pstore storage backends.

trivia:

> diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
[]
> @@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ struct pstore_record {
>   *
>   * @read_mutex:	serializes @open, @read, @close, and @erase callbacks
>   * @flags:	bitfield of frontends the backend can accept writes for
> + * @max_reason:	Used when PSTORE_FLAGS_DMESG is set. Contains the
> + *		kmsg_dump_reason enum value. KMSG_DUMP_UNDEF means
> + *		"use existing kmsg_dump() filtering, based on the
> + *		printk.always_kmsg_dump boot param" (which is either
> + *		KMSG_DUMP_OOPS when false, or KMSG_DUMP_MAX when
> + *		tree); see printk.always_kmsg_dump for more details.

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