powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore

This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This commit is contained in:
Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-06 00:22:20 +05:30
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent f33f748c96
commit a5e4797b0f
3 changed files with 20 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -330,6 +330,9 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count,
case PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_OF:
sprintf(name, "powerpc-ofw-%s-%lld", psname, id);
break;
case PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON:
sprintf(name, "powerpc-common-%s-%lld", psname, id);
break;
case PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN:
sprintf(name, "unknown-%s-%lld", psname, id);
break;