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Commit dd230fec authored by Seiji Aguchi's avatar Seiji Aguchi Committed by Tony Luck
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efi_pstore: Add a logic erasing entries to an erase callback



[Issue]

Currently, efi_pstore driver simply overwrites existing panic messages in NVRAM.
So, in the following scenario, we will lose 1st panic messages.

 1. kernel panics.
 2. efi_pstore is kicked and writes panic messages to NVRAM.
 3. system reboots.
 4. kernel panics again before a user checks the 1st panic messages in NVRAM.

[Solution]

A reasonable solution to fix the issue is just holding multiple logs without erasing
existing entries.

This patch freshly adds a logic erasing existing entries, which shared with a write callback,
to an erase callback.
To support holding multiple logs, the write callback doesn't need to erase any entries and
it will be removed in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent d80a361d
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