Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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The actual number of bytes stored in a PRZ is smaller than the bytes requested by platform data, since there is a header on each PRZ. Additionally, if ECC is enabled, there are trailing bytes used as well. Normally this mismatch doesn't matter since PRZs are circular buffers and the leading "overflow" bytes are just thrown away. However, in the case of a compressed record, this rather badly corrupts the results. This corruption was visible with "ramoops.mem_size=204800 ramoops.ecc=1". Any stored crashes would not be uncompressable (producing a pstorefs "dmesg-*.enc.z" file), and triggering errors at boot: [ 2.790759] pstore: crypto_comp_decompress failed, ret = -22! Backporting this depends on commit |
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arch | ||
block | ||
certs | ||
crypto | ||
Documentation | ||
drivers | ||
firmware | ||
fs | ||
include | ||
init | ||
ipc | ||
kernel | ||
lib | ||
LICENSES | ||
mm | ||
net | ||
samples | ||
scripts | ||
security | ||
sound | ||
tools | ||
usr | ||
virt | ||
.clang-format | ||
.cocciconfig | ||
.get_maintainer.ignore | ||
.gitattributes | ||
.gitignore | ||
.mailmap | ||
COPYING | ||
CREDITS | ||
Kbuild | ||
Kconfig | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
Makefile | ||
README |
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.