virtio: Basic implementation of virtio pstore driver
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 single order-2 page buffer. As all
operation of pstore is synchronous, it would be fine IMHO. However I
don't know how to make write operation synchronous since it's called
with a spinlock held (from any context including NMI).
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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