nvram_pstore_write(9)

💾 nvram_pstore_write(9) — the nvram pstore write callback, bestie ✨

okay so this one is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's lowkey a tiny little function with a big job 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

nvram_pstore_write — literally the pstore write callback for nvram 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int nvram_pstore_write (struct pstore_record *record );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• record — the pstore record you're writing, and bestie it comes with the id that's to be set 👑 so yeah, the id gets set in there, no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓: this gets called by pstore_dump when an oops or panic report gets logged into the printk buffer 😭 like when things go bad bad. and it returns 0 on a successful write ✨ slay.

ngl this is the "something went horribly wrong, save the receipts" function. iconic behavior honestly 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• the kernel file ./arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
• nvram_remove_partition(9)
• nvram_create_partition(9)
• nvram_get_partition_size(9)
• nvram_find_partition(9)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this page lives in ./arch/powerpc/kernel, it's dated October 2026, and it's from the Kernel API Manual — go off, king 👑✨🎀