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Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
"Fixes and new features for pstore.
This is a pretty big set of changes (relative to past pstore pulls),
but it has been in -next for a while. The biggest change here is the
ability to support a block device as a pstore backend, which has been
desired for a while. A lot of additional fixes and refactorings are
also included, mostly in support of the new features.
- refactor pstore locking for safer module unloading (Kees Cook)
- remove orphaned records from pstorefs when backend unloaded (Kees
Cook)
- refactor dump_oops parameter into max_reason (Pavel Tatashin)
- introduce pstore/zone for common code for contiguous storage
(WeiXiong Liao)
- introduce pstore/blk for block device backend (WeiXiong Liao)
- introduce mtd backend (WeiXiong Liao)"
* tag 'pstore-v5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (35 commits)
mtd: Support kmsg dumper based on pstore/blk
pstore/blk: Introduce "best_effort" mode
pstore/blk: Support non-block storage devices
pstore/blk: Provide way to query pstore configuration
pstore/zone: Provide way to skip "broken" zone for MTD devices
Documentation: Add details for pstore/blk
pstore/zone,blk: Add ftrace frontend support
pstore/zone,blk: Add console frontend support
pstore/zone,blk: Add support for pmsg frontend
pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices
pstore/zone: Introduce common layer to manage storage zones
ramoops: Add "max-reason" optional field to ramoops DT node
pstore/ram: Introduce max_reason and convert dump_oops
pstore/platform: Pass max_reason to kmesg dump
printk: Introduce kmsg_dump_reason_str()
printk: honor the max_reason field in kmsg_dumper
printk: Collapse shutdown types into a single dump reason
pstore/ftrace: Provide ftrace log merging routine
pstore/ram: Refactor ftrace buffer merging
pstore/ram: Refactor DT size parsing
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