Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2014 17:17:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] EFI changes for v3.16 |
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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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