From 335426c6dcdd338d6b7c939c2da15fc9c5dd4959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: WeiXiong Liao Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:55:03 +0800 Subject: pstore/zone: Provide way to skip "broken" zone for MTD devices One requirement to support MTD devices in pstore/zone is having a way to declare certain regions as broken. Add this support to pstore/zone. The MTD driver should return -ENOMSG when encountering a bad region, which tells pstore/zone to skip and try the next one. Signed-off-by: WeiXiong Liao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511233229.27745-8-keescook@chromium.org/ Co-developed-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Link: //lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512173801.222666-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- include/linux/pstore_blk.h | 3 ++- include/linux/pstore_zone.h | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/pstore_blk.h b/include/linux/pstore_blk.h index 4501977b1336..ccba8c068752 100644 --- a/include/linux/pstore_blk.h +++ b/include/linux/pstore_blk.h @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ * @start_sect: start sector to block device * @sects: sectors count on buf * - * Return: On success, zero should be returned. Others mean error. + * Return: On success, zero should be returned. Others excluding -ENOMSG + * mean error. -ENOMSG means to try next zone. * * Panic write to block device must be aligned to SECTOR_SIZE. */ diff --git a/include/linux/pstore_zone.h b/include/linux/pstore_zone.h index 6f16b0dd834a..e79a18e41064 100644 --- a/include/linux/pstore_zone.h +++ b/include/linux/pstore_zone.h @@ -23,11 +23,15 @@ typedef ssize_t (*pstore_zone_write_op)(const char *, size_t, loff_t); * @read: The general read operation. Both of the function parameters * @size and @offset are relative value to storage. * On success, the number of bytes should be returned, others - * means error. - * @write: The same as @read, but -EBUSY means try to write again later. + * mean error. + * @write: The same as @read, but the following error number: + * -EBUSY means try to write again later. + * -ENOMSG means to try next zone. * @panic_write:The write operation only used for panic case. It's optional - * if you do not care panic log. The parameters and return value - * are the same as @read. + * if you do not care panic log. The parameters are relative + * value to storage. + * On success, the number of bytes should be returned, others + * excluding -ENOMSG mean error. -ENOMSG means to try next zone. */ struct pstore_zone_info { struct module *owner; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b