pstore: Add persistent function tracing
authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:10:41 +0000 (17:10 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:05:52 +0000 (10:05 -0700)
commit060287b8c467bf49a594d8d669e1986c6d8d76b0
treef869d1cc6d09875a0dc4f42b230f144617fc3bfc
parent897dba027445be93f40e5caf550556ca38c48c51
pstore: Add persistent function tracing

With this support kernel can save function call chain log into a
persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot
through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function
was last called before a reset or panic.

We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time.

p.s.
Mostly the code comes from trace_persistent.c driver found in the
Android git tree, written by Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
(according to sign-off history). I reworked the driver a little bit,
and ported it to pstore.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/pstore/Kconfig
fs/pstore/Makefile
fs/pstore/ftrace.c [new file with mode: 0644]
fs/pstore/inode.c
fs/pstore/internal.h
fs/pstore/platform.c
include/linux/pstore.h