[PATCH v2] pstore: Adjust buffer size for compression for smallerregistered buffers

From: Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 02:50:49 EST


When backends (ex: efivars) have smaller registered buffers, the big_oops_buf
is quite too big for them as number of repeated occurences in the text captured
will be less. Patch takes care of adjusting the buffer size based on the
registered buffer size. cmpr values has been arrived after doing experiments with
plain text for buffers of size 1k - 4k (Smaller the buffer size repeated occurence
will be less) and with sample crash log for buffers ranging from 4k - 10k.

Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v1:
Retain the cmpr = 45 for buffers ranging of size 4k - 10k. 45 seems to work.
I added an additional headroom of 3%. Revert it back to 45.

fs/pstore/platform.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 4ffb7ab..57b4219 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -195,8 +195,29 @@ error:
static void allocate_buf_for_compression(void)
{
size_t size;
+ size_t cmpr;
+
+ switch (psinfo->bufsize) {
+ /* buffer range for efivars */
+ case 1000 ... 2000:
+ cmpr = 56;
+ break;
+ case 2001 ... 3000:
+ cmpr = 54;
+ break;
+ case 3001 ... 3999:
+ cmpr = 52;
+ break;
+ /* buffer range for nvram, erst */
+ case 4000 ... 10000:
+ cmpr = 45;
+ break;
+ default:
+ cmpr = 60;
+ break;
+ }

- big_oops_buf_sz = (psinfo->bufsize * 100) / 45;
+ big_oops_buf_sz = (psinfo->bufsize * 100) / cmpr;
big_oops_buf = kmalloc(big_oops_buf_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
if (big_oops_buf) {
size = max(zlib_deflate_workspacesize(WINDOW_BITS, MEM_LEVEL),

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