On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The virtio pstore driver provides interface to the pstore subsystem so
> that the guest kernel's log/dump message can be saved on the host
> machine. Users can access the log file directly on the host, or on the
> guest at the next boot using pstore filesystem. It currently deals with
> kernel log (printk) buffer only, but we can extend it to have other
> information (like ftrace dump) later.
>
> It supports legacy PCI device using single order-2 page buffer. As all
> operation of pstore is synchronous, it would be fine IMHO. However I
> don't know how to make write operation synchronous since it's called
> with a spinlock held (from any context including NMI).
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini
> Cc: Radim Krčmář
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
> Cc: Anthony Liguori
> Cc: Anton Vorontsov
> Cc: Colin Cross
> Cc: Kees Cook
> Cc: Tony Luck
> Cc: Steven Rostedt
> Cc: Ingo Molnar
> Cc: Minchan Kim
> Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: qemu-de...@nongnu.org
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
This looks great to me! I'd love to use this in qemu. (Right now I go
through hoops to use the ramoops backend for testing.)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Notes below...
> ---
> drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 10 ++
> drivers/virtio/Makefile| 1 +
> drivers/virtio/virtio_pstore.c | 317
> +
> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_ids.h| 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_pstore.h | 53 +++
> 6 files changed, 383 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_pstore.c
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/virtio_pstore.h
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> index 77590320d44c..8f0e6c796c12 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> @@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ config VIRTIO_INPUT
>
> If unsure, say M.
>
> +config VIRTIO_PSTORE
> + tristate "Virtio pstore driver"
> + depends on VIRTIO
> + depends on PSTORE
> + ---help---
> +This driver supports virtio pstore devices to save/restore
> +panic and oops messages on the host.
> +
> +If unsure, say M.
> +
> config VIRTIO_MMIO
> tristate "Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices"
> depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Makefile b/drivers/virtio/Makefile
> index 41e30e3dc842..bee68cb26d48 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/Makefile
> @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ virtio_pci-y := virtio_pci_modern.o virtio_pci_common.o
> virtio_pci-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY) += virtio_pci_legacy.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON) += virtio_balloon.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT) += virtio_input.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_PSTORE) += virtio_pstore.o
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pstore.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pstore.c
> new file mode 100644
> index ..6fe62c0f1508
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pstore.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@
> +#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> +
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +
> +#define VIRT_PSTORE_ORDER2
> +#define VIRT_PSTORE_BUFSIZE (4096 << VIRT_PSTORE_ORDER)
> +
> +struct virtio_pstore {
> + struct virtio_device*vdev;
> + struct virtqueue*vq;
> + struct pstore_info pstore;
> + struct virtio_pstore_hdr hdr;
> + size_t buflen;
> + u64 id;
> +
> + /* Waiting for host to ack */
> + wait_queue_head_t acked;
> +};
> +
> +static u16 to_virtio_type(struct virtio_pstore *vps, enum pstore_type_id
> type)
> +{
> + u16 ret;
> +
> + switch (type) {
> + case PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG:
> + ret = cpu_to_virtio16(vps->vdev, VIRTIO_PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG);
> + break;
> + default:
> + ret = cpu_to_virtio16(vps->vdev, VIRTIO_PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN);
> + break;
> + }
I would love to see this support PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE too. It should be
relatively easy to add: I think it'd just be another virtio command?
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static enum pstore_type_id from_virtio_type(struct virtio_pstore *vps, u16
> type)
> +{
> + enum pstore_type_id ret;
> +
> + switch (virtio16_to_cpu(vps->vdev, type)) {
> + case VIRTIO_PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG:
> + ret = PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG;
> + break;
> + default:
> + ret = PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static void virtpstore_ack(struct virtqueue *vq)
> +{
> + struct virtio_pstore *vps = vq->vdev->priv;
> +
> + wake_up(&vps->acked);
> +}
> +
> +static int virt_pstore_open(struct pstore_info *psi)
> +{
> + struct virtio_pstore *vps = psi->data;
> + stru
