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authorSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>2012-11-14 20:27:28 +0000
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-11-26 16:02:12 -0800
commita9efd39cd547223597cfe7c53acec44c099b9264 (patch)
tree293feed9e89d811235371d389f7787eddf2899e1 /fs/pstore/inode.c
parent96480d9c8fcfd7e325e9be6a6c6846689707f8e0 (diff)
efi_pstore: Add ctime to argument of erase callback
[Issue] Currently, a variable name, which is used to identify each log entry, consists of type, id and ctime. But an erase callback does not use ctime. If efi_pstore supported just one log, type and id were enough. However, in case of supporting multiple logs, it doesn't work because it can't distinguish each entry without ctime at erasing time. <Example> As you can see below, efi_pstore can't differentiate first event from second one without ctime. a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678 a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-23456789 type:0 id:1 ctime:12345678, 23456789 [Solution] This patch adds ctime to an argument of an erase callback. It works across reboots because ctime of pstore means the date that the record was originally stored. To do this, efi_pstore saves the ctime to variable name at writing time and passes it to pstore at reading time. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/inode.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 4ab572e6d277..4300af654710 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
struct pstore_private *p = dentry->d_inode->i_private;
if (p->psi->erase)
- p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, p->psi);
+ p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, dentry->d_inode->i_ctime,
+ p->psi);
return simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
}