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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2010-12-28 23:25:21 +0100
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2010-12-28 23:25:21 +0100
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pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storage
Some platforms have a small amount of non-volatile storage that can be used to store information useful to diagnose the cause of a system crash. This is the generic part of a file system interface that presents information from the crash as a series of files in /dev/pstore. Once the information has been seen, the underlying storage is freed by deleting the files. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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+config PSTORE
+ bool "Persistant store support"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option enables generic access to platform level
+ persistent storage via "pstore" filesystem that can
+ be mounted as /dev/pstore. Only useful if you have
+ a platform level driver that registers with pstore to
+ provide the data, so you probably should just go say "Y"
+ (or "M") to a platform specific persistent store driver
+ (e.g. ACPI_APEI on X86) which will select this for you.
+ If you don't have a platform persistent store driver,
+ say N.