4 Contact: tony.luck@intel.com
5 Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
7 Platforms that provide a mechanism to preserve some data
8 across system reboots can register with this driver to
9 provide a generic interface to show records captured in
10 the dying moments. In the case of a panic the last part
11 of the console log is captured, but other interesting
12 data can also be saved.
14 # mount -t pstore - /dev/pstore
18 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7896 Nov 30 15:38 dmesg-erst-1
20 Different users of this interface will result in different
21 filename prefixes. Currently two are defined:
23 "dmesg" - saved console log
24 "mce" - architecture dependent data from fatal h/w error
26 Once the information in a file has been read, removing
27 the file will signal to the underlying persistent storage
28 device that it can reclaim the space for later re-use.
30 $ rm /dev/pstore/dmesg-erst-1
32 The expectation is that all files in /dev/pstore
33 will be saved elsewhere and erased from persistent store
34 soon after boot to free up space ready for the next