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From: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH for-4.16 1/3] sysfs: improve devices-coredump description with user-space perspective
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:55:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521107725-25027-2-git-send-email-aspriel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521107725-25027-1-git-send-email-aspriel@gmail.com>
Instead of referring to kernel internals, describe the ABI from user-space
perspective to clarify what can be expected when using it.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
index e459368..d5a4c75 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ What: /sys/devices/.../coredump
Date: December 2017
Contact: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
Description:
- The /sys/devices/.../coredump attribute is only present when the
- device is bound to a driver, which provides the .coredump()
- callback. The attribute is write only. Anything written to this
- file will trigger the .coredump() callback.
+ When present the /sys/devices/.../coredump attribute can be used
+ to trigger a coredump of the device. The coredump contents are
+ device driver specific and thus vary. The coredump attribute is
+ writeonly. Anything written to this file will trigger creation
+ of the coredump. When the coredump is made available under
+ /sys/class/devcoredump it will generate a uevent. When the
+ coredump can not be successfully generated no ueven will occur.
- Available when CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP is enabled.
+ Available when CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP is enabled and the device
+ driver supports coredump generation.
--
1.9.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-15 9:55 [PATCH for-4.16 0/3] drivers: base: revise coredump ABI Arend van Spriel
2018-03-15 9:55 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2018-03-15 17:05 ` [PATCH for-4.16 1/3] sysfs: improve devices-coredump description with user-space perspective Brian Norris
2018-03-15 20:20 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-03-15 9:55 ` [PATCH for-4.16 2/3] drivers: change struct device_driver::coredump() return type to void Arend van Spriel
2018-03-23 16:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-24 8:50 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-03-24 9:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-24 14:10 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-04-06 10:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-04-06 14:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-06 19:35 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-04-07 7:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-15 9:55 ` [PATCH for-4.16 3/3] drivers: base: remove check for callback in coredump_store() Arend van Spriel
2018-03-23 16:56 ` [PATCH for-4.16 0/3] drivers: base: revise coredump ABI Greg Kroah-Hartman
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