Currently a lot of our configuration settings and panic sysctls are
highly specific to SteamOS, so let's make them distro-agnostic, more
focused on generic HW / usage of a regular Arch Linux user. The affected
configs/sysctls are detailed below:
(a) Pstore memory settings: since on Steam Deck we have somewhat
pre-reserved RAM for pstore (~15M due to kernel memory alignment
rounding), makes sense to have a bit more of such memory effectively
available for pstore. In the general case though, likely users will
require to manually reserve it, so 4M of total memory with 1M buffer
seems more than enough to collect a dmesg, specially considering point
(e) below.
(b) The log storage folder was tuned for Deck, in which we have A/B
partitioning scheme and a persistent /home, but in general (following
standard kdump tools "on the market", like Debian's/Fedora's), /var
is used for that, so we follow the trend here.
(c) Grub file location was also special on SteamOS, so let's make
it follow the default /boot/grub/grub.cfg here.
(d) Kdump-specific tunings: the goal for people using kdump (not pstore!)
is usually to collect the vmcore of the panicked kernel to explore it,
using tools like crash/drgn. This is not the main goal on SteamOS, in
which we want to collect as much info we can get *on dmesg* and that's
it for most cases...
With that in mind, we needed "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" parameter
to dump more info on dmesg during a panic (a potentially problematic
parameter in some HWs BTW, but tested in depth on Deck) and we disabled
the vmcore saving by default as well. So, let's "revert" it here, having
vmcore capturing enabled by default and dropping the post_notifiers
parameter (see next point as well).
(e) About the sysctls, we are more aggressive on panicking on Deck
(like panic on soft lockups) and the goal is to collect the most info
we can on dmesg, so needed to enable panic_print to dump tasks and
whatnot on dmesg during a panic event. In the general case, people
that wish to have the most information as possible would go with
kdump, collecting vmcore, not with pstore collecting just the dmesg.
With that said, "reduce" panic_print here to only show memory info
and CPUs backtraces, and disable soft lockup panic.
(Also we cleared the file to drop mentioning the choices of *not*
panicking on hung tasks or RCU stalls).
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Remove Steam/SteamOS references from things like headers,
journal error messages, etc.
While at it, also improve wording in some points.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Drop "steamos" references as well as "submit/submitter" wording
given that we are decoupling the submission mechanism of the
logs' collection.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
