[RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore

[Seiji Aguchi]

> But let's make sure that efivars, erst,
> etc. are all happy with the changes we make before I ask Linus to pull another
> pstore piece.

I will test efivars when Aruna posts the bugfix patches.

Seiji

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony [mailto:tony.luck at intel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 12:11 PM
> To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah; Seiji Aguchi
> Cc: jkenisto at linux.vnet.ibm.com; keescook at chromium.org; mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com; ccross at android.com; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; cbouatmailru at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] pstore: Add compression support to pstore
> 
> > The reason behind compression failure is the size of big_oops_buf which is too
> > big for efivars case. I will do some experiments with different kind of texts
> > for buffer size 1024 to check if 100/53 suits for all the cases.
> ...
> 
> > Yes this can be changed to zlib_inflateInit2().
> 
> Original patch series was just pulled by Linus ... so we'll need a patch on top
> of current Linus git tree to fix these issues.  But let's make sure that efivars, erst,
> etc. are all happy with the changes we make before I ask Linus to pull another
> pstore piece.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Tony