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-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/ram.c15
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pstore.h5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index ffcff6516e89..e02a9039b5ea 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -816,17 +816,14 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
cxt->pstore.data = cxt;
/*
- * Console can handle any buffer size, so prefer LOG_LINE_MAX. If we
- * have to handle dumps, we must have at least record_size buffer. And
- * for ftrace, bufsize is irrelevant (if bufsize is 0, buf will be
- * ZERO_SIZE_PTR).
+ * Since bufsize is only used for dmesg crash dumps, it
+ * must match the size of the dprz record (after PRZ header
+ * and ECC bytes have been accounted for).
*/
- if (cxt->console_size)
- cxt->pstore.bufsize = 1024; /* LOG_LINE_MAX */
- cxt->pstore.bufsize = max(cxt->record_size, cxt->pstore.bufsize);
- cxt->pstore.buf = kmalloc(cxt->pstore.bufsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cxt->pstore.bufsize = cxt->dprzs[0]->buffer_size;
+ cxt->pstore.buf = kzalloc(cxt->pstore.bufsize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!cxt->pstore.buf) {
- pr_err("cannot allocate pstore buffer\n");
+ pr_err("cannot allocate pstore crash dump buffer\n");
err = -ENOMEM;
goto fail_clear;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index a15bc4d48752..30fcec375a3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ struct pstore_record {
*
* @buf_lock: spinlock to serialize access to @buf
* @buf: preallocated crash dump buffer
- * @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump writes
+ * @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump bytes (must match
+ * smallest number of bytes available for writing to a
+ * backend entry, since compressed bytes don't take kindly
+ * to being truncated)
*
* @read_mutex: serializes @open, @read, @close, and @erase callbacks
* @flags: bitfield of frontends the backend can accept writes for