[RFC PATCH v2 08/11] powerpc/pseries: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore

2013-08-16 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
If data returned from pstore is compressed, nvram's write callback will add a flag ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ indicating the data is compressed while writing to nvram. If the data read from nvram is compressed, nvram's read callback will set the flag 'compressed'. The patch adds backward

[RFC PATCH v2 08/11] powerpc/pseries: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore

2013-08-16 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
If data returned from pstore is compressed, nvram's write callback will add a flag ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ indicating the data is compressed while writing to nvram. If the data read from nvram is compressed, nvram's read callback will set the flag 'compressed'. The patch adds backward