[PATCH v2 4/8] powerpc/pseries: Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
IBM's p series machines provide persistent storage for LPARs through NVRAM. NVRAM's lnx,oops-log partition is used to log oops messages. Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the

[PATCH v2 4/8] powerpc/pseries: Read/Write oops nvram partition via pstore

2013-04-24 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
IBM's p series machines provide persistent storage for LPARs through NVRAM. NVRAM's lnx,oops-log partition is used to log oops messages. Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the