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2019-06-05	treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 324	Thomas Gleixner	1	-16/+1
	Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this file is provided under the gplv2 license gpl license summary [copyright] [c] [2015] [intel] [deutschland] [gmbh] this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details the full gnu general public license is included in this distribution in the file called copying extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl> Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530000435.636161379@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-04-15	devcoredump: add scatterlist support	Aviya Erenfeld	1	-8/+78
	Add scatterlist support (dev_coredumpsg) to allow drivers to avoid vmalloc() like dev_coredumpm(), while also avoiding the module reference that the latter function requires. This internally uses dev_coredumpm() with function inside the devcoredump module, requiring removing the const (which touches the driver using it.) Signed-off-by: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-24	device coredump: add new device coredump class	Johannes Berg	1	-0/+35
	Many devices run firmware and/or complex hardware, and most of that can have bugs. When it misbehaves, however, it is often much harder to debug than software running on the host. Introduce a "device coredump" mechanism to allow dumping internal device/firmware state through a generalized mechanism. As devices are different and information needed can vary accordingly, this doesn't prescribe a file format - it just provides mechanism to get data to be able to capture it in a generalized way (e.g. in distributions.) The dumped data will be readable in sysfs in the virtual device's data file under /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd*/. Writing to it will free the data and remove the device, as does a 5-minute timeout. Note that generalized capturing of such data may result in privacy issues, so users generally need to be involved. In order to allow certain users/system integrators/... to disable the feature at all, introduce a Kconfig option to override the drivers that would like to have the feature. For now, this provides two ways of dumping data: 1) with a vmalloc'ed area, that is then given to the subsystem and freed after retrieval or timeout 2) with a generalized reader/free function method We could/should add more options, e.g. a list of pages, since the vmalloc area is very limited on some architectures. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>