[PATCH net-next v5 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Apr 24 12:54:52 PDT 2018


From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:35:52 +0530

> Patch 1 adds API to vmcore module to allow drivers to register callback
> to collect the device specific hardware/firmware logs.  The logs will
> be added to /proc/vmcore as elf notes.
> 
> Patch 2 updates read and mmap logic to append device specific hardware/
> firmware logs as elf notes.
> 
> Patch 3 shows a cxgb4 driver example using the API to collect
> hardware/firmware logs in crash recovery kernel, before hardware is
> initialized.

Are there any serious remaining objections to this series?  I'm going to
integrate this into net-next soon if not.

Thank you.



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