On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] wrote:

The virtio pstore driver provides interface to the pstore subsystem so
that the guest kernel's log/dump message can be saved on the host
machine.  Users can access the log file directly on the host, or on the
guest at the next boot using pstore filesystem.  It currently deals with
kernel log (printk) buffer only, but we can extend it to have other
information (like ftrace dump) later.

It supports legacy PCI device using a 16K buffer by default and it's
configurable.  It uses two virtqueues - one for (sync) read and another
for (async) write.  Since it cannot wait for write finished, it supports
up to 128 concurrent IO.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <redacted>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <redacted>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <redacted>
Cc: Colin Cross <redacted>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

While I can't speak to the virtio parts, the interface into pstore
looks fine to me. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security
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