Re: [GIT PULL] EFI changes for v3.16

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon May 19 2014 - 20:17:42 EST


On 05/19/2014 04:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> The question is, why can't that pstore mumbo jumbo go and do its dance
> in !irq context?
>
> And how useful is the whole deal really, btw? I wanted to use it for
> saving oopses into it, for example, but Tony said its write speed is
> horribly low for that.
>
> So why do we even bother with this thing and do the dance in irq context
> for it? Is it worth it at all?
>

I thought the whole point of allowing pstore in IRQ context was to write
oopsen (panics?)

-hpa

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