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Fabian Frederick
d7c0847fe3 kernel/panic.c: display reason at end + pr_emerg
Currently, booting without initrd specified on 80x25 screen gives a call
trace followed by atkbd : Spurious ACK.  Original message ("VFS: Unable
to mount root fs") is not available.  Of course this could happen in
other situations...

This patch displays panic reason after call trace which could help lot
of people even if it's not the very last line on screen.

Also, convert all panic.c printk(KERN_EMERG to pr_emerg(

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: missed a couple of pr_ conversions]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6f4c98e1c2 Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke
a staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch
 but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here
 to avoid breaking build.
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a
  staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch but
  hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid
  breaking build"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  staging: fix up speakup kobject mode
  Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
  VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
  kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
  kallsyms: generalize address range checking
  module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro
  Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
  module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE
  module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module
  module: use pr_cont
2014-04-06 09:38:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
176ab02d49 Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 LTO changes from Peter Anvin:
 "More infrastructure work in preparation for link-time optimization
  (LTO).  Most of these changes is to make sure symbols accessed from
  assembly code are properly marked as visible so the linker doesn't
  remove them.

  My understanding is that the changes to support LTO are still not
  upstream in binutils, but are on the way there.  This patchset should
  conclude the x86-specific changes, and remaining patches to actually
  enable LTO will be fed through the Kbuild tree (other than keeping up
  with changes to the x86 code base, of course), although not
  necessarily in this merge window"

* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost
  Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c
  Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld
  Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros
  Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost
  Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost
  lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni
  lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
  lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering
  lto: Make asmlinkage __visible
  x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO
  initconst, x86: Fix initconst mistake in ts5500 code
  initconst: Fix initconst mistake in dcdbas
  asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible
  asmlinkage, x86: Fix 32bit memcpy for LTO
  asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible
  asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage
  asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible
  asmlinkage, mutex: Mark __visible
  asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirq visible
  ...
2014-03-31 14:13:25 -07:00
Rusty Russell
57673c2b0b Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> says:
> The letter 'X' has been already used for SUSE kernels for very long
> time, to indicate the external supported modules.  Can the new flag be
> changed to another letter for avoiding conflict...?
> (BTW, we also use 'N' for "no support", too.)

Note: this code should be cleaned up, so we don't have such maps in
three places!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-31 14:52:43 +10:30
Dave Jones
8c90487cdc Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, so we can repurpose
the flag to encompass a wider range of pushing the CPU beyond its
warrany.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140226154949.GA770@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-03-20 16:28:09 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
66cc69e34e Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded
within a kernel supporting module signature.

This is caused by tracepoint.c:tracepoint_module_coming() refusing to
take into account tracepoints sitting within force-loaded modules
(TAINT_FORCED_MODULE). The reason for this check, in the first place, is
that a force-loaded module may have a struct module incompatible with
the layout expected by the kernel, and can thus cause a kernel crash
upon forced load of that module on a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y.

Tracepoints, however, specifically accept TAINT_OOT_MODULE and
TAINT_CRAP, since those modules do not lead to the "very likely system
crash" issue cited above for force-loaded modules.

With kernels having CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y (signed modules), a non-signed
module is tainted re-using the TAINT_FORCED_MODULE taint flag.
Unfortunately, this means that Tracepoints treat that module as a
force-loaded module, and thus silently refuse to consider any tracepoint
within this module.

Since an unsigned module does not fit within the "very likely system
crash" category of tainting, add a new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE taint flag
to specifically address this taint behavior, and accept those modules
within Tracepoints. We use the letter 'X' as a taint flag character for
a module being loaded that doesn't know how to sign its name (proposed
by Steven Rostedt).

Also add the missing 'O' entry to trace event show_module_flags() list
for the sake of completeness.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-13 12:11:51 +10:30
Andi Kleen
a7330c997d asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible
In LTO symbols implicitely referenced by the compiler need
to be visible. Earlier these symbols were visible implicitely
from being exported, but we disabled implicit visibility fo
 EXPORTs when modules are disabled to improve code size. So
now these symbols have to be marked visible explicitely.

Do this for __stack_chk_fail (with stack protector)
and memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-10-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-13 18:13:43 -08:00
Jason Baron
5800dc3cff panic: Make panic_timeout configurable
The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option
'panic=x', or via /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not
sufficient when the panic occurs before we are able to set up
these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT so that we can
set the desired value from the .config.

The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait
forever. Also adds set_arch_panic_timeout(new_timeout,
arch_default_timeout), which is intended to be used by arches in
arch_setup(). The idea being that the new_timeout is only set if
the user hasn't changed from the arch_default_timeout.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a1674daec27c534df409697025ac568ebcee91e.1385418410.git.jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-26 12:12:26 +01:00
Chen Gang
0128476471 kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
sizeof("Tainted: ") already counts '\0', and after first sprintf(), 's'
will start from the current string end (its' value is '\0').

So need not add additional 1 byte for maximized usage of 'buf' in
print_tainted().

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
Kees Cook
6723734cdf panic: call panic handlers before kmsg_dump
Since the panic handlers may produce additional information (via printk)
for the kernel log, it should be reported as part of the panic output
saved by kmsg_dump().  Without this re-ordering, nothing that adds
information to a panic will show up in pstore's view when kmsg_dump runs,
and is therefore not visible to crash reporting tools that examine pstore
output.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:59:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c72bb31691 The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes that
were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been
 marked for stable.
 
 As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about.
 These include:
 
 New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
 ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
 The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
 the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
 dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function.
 
 Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning"
 which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered.
 This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not
 want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the
 data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line
 option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...
2013-07-11 09:02:09 -07:00
Alex Thorlton
dcb6b45254 panic: add cpu/pid to warn_slowpath_common in WARNING printk()s
Add the cpu/pid that called WARN() so that the stack traces can be
matched up with the WARNING messages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray quote]
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:25 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
de7edd3145 tracing: Disable tracing on warning
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.

This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-19 23:32:07 -04:00
Tejun Heo
98e5e1bf72 dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumps
x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.

* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
  them out with PID, comm and utsname.  Some of the information is
  printed again later in the same dump.

* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
  it out with "Hardware name:" label.  This applies to both x86 and
  ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.

* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.

This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack().  It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.

dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data.  It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message.  It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using.  The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().

This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary.  Removed.

show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs().  The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [<ffffffff8234a0c3>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
    also contains BIOS information.  Move hardware name into its own
    line as warn_slowpath_common() did.  This change was suggested by
    Bjorn Helgaas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
Rusty Russell
373d4d0997 taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-21 17:17:57 +10:30
Vikram Mulukutla
190320c3b6 panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic()
panic_lock is meant to ensure that panic processing takes place only on
one cpu; if any of the other cpus encounter a panic, they will spin
waiting to be shut down.

However, this causes a regression in this scenario:

1. Cpu 0 encounters a panic and acquires the panic_lock
   and proceeds with the panic processing.
2. There is an interrupt on cpu 0 that also encounters
   an error condition and invokes panic.
3. This second invocation fails to acquire the panic_lock
   and enters the infinite while loop in panic_smp_self_stop.

Thus all panic processing is stopped, and the cpu is stuck for eternity
in the while(1) inside panic_smp_self_stop.

To address this, disable local interrupts with local_irq_disable before
acquiring the panic_lock.  This will prevent interrupt handlers from
executing during the panic processing, thus avoiding this particular
problem.

Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:13 -07:00
Seiji Aguchi
62be73eafa kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop()
This patch moves kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop(),
to serialize the crash-logging process via smp_send_stop() and to
thus retrieve a more stable crash image of all CPUs stopped.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5C4C569E8A4B9B42A84A977CF070A35B2E4D7A5CE2@USINDEVS01.corp.hds.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-18 14:02:10 +02:00
Kyle McMartin
2a01bb3885 panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable
Several distros set this by default by patching panic_on_oops.
It seems to fit with the BOOTPARAM_{HARD,SOFT}_PANIC options
though, so let's add a Kconfig entry and reduce some more
upstream delta.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120411121529.GH26688@redacted.bos.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-07 14:45:29 +02:00
Jason Wessel
026ee1f66a panic: fix stack dump print on direct call to panic()
Commit 6e6f0a1f0f ("panic: don't print redundant backtraces on oops")
causes a regression where no stack trace will be printed at all for the
case where kernel code calls panic() directly while not processing an
oops, and of course there are 100's of instances of this type of call.

The original commit executed the check (!oops_in_progress), but this will
always be false because just before the dump_stack() there is a call to
bust_spinlocks(1), which does the following:

  void __attribute__((weak)) bust_spinlocks(int yes)
  {
	if (yes) {
		++oops_in_progress;

The proper way to resolve the problem that original commit tried to
solve is to avoid printing a stack dump from panic() when the either of
the following conditions is true:

  1) TAINT_DIE has been set (this is done by oops_end())
     This indicates and oops has already been printed.
  2) oops_in_progress > 1
     This guards against the rare case where panic() is invoked
     a second time, or in between oops_begin() and oops_end()

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-12 13:12:12 -07:00
Andi Kleen
6e6f0a1f0f panic: don't print redundant backtraces on oops
When an oops causes a panic and panic prints another backtrace it's pretty
common to have the original oops data be scrolled away on a 80x50 screen.

The second backtrace is quite redundant and not needed anyways.

So don't print the panic backtrace when oops_in_progress is true.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:11 -08:00
Michael Holzheu
93e13a360b kdump: fix crash_kexec()/smp_send_stop() race in panic()
When two CPUs call panic at the same time there is a possible race
condition that can stop kdump.  The first CPU calls crash_kexec() and the
second CPU calls smp_send_stop() in panic() before crash_kexec() finished
on the first CPU.  So the second CPU stops the first CPU and therefore
kdump fails:

1st CPU:
  panic()->crash_kexec()->mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)-> do kdump

2nd CPU:
  panic()->crash_kexec()->kexec_mutex already held by 1st CPU
       ->smp_send_stop()-> stop 1st CPU (stop kdump)

This patch fixes the problem by introducing a spinlock in panic that
allows only one CPU to process crash_kexec() and the subsequent panic
code.

All other CPUs call the weak function panic_smp_self_stop() that stops the
CPU itself.  This function can be overloaded by architecture code.  For
example "tile" can use their lower-power "nap" instruction for that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:11 -08:00
Joe Perches
9402c95f34 treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses
It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it.

Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Ben Hutchings
9ec84acee1 lockdep, bug: Exclude TAINT_OOT_MODULE from disabling lock debugging
We do want to allow lock debugging for GPL-compatible modules
that are not (yet) built in-tree.  This was disabled as a
side-effect of commit 2449b8ba07
('module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built
in-tree').  Lock debug warnings now include taint flags, so
kernel developers should still be able to deflect warnings
caused by out-of-tree modules.

The TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE flag for non-GPL-compatible modules
will still disable lock debugging.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323268258.18450.11.camel@deadeye
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-07 23:32:10 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
df754e6af2 lockdep, bug: Exclude TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND from disabling lockdep
It's unlikely that TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND causes false
lockdep messages, so do not disable lockdep in that case.
We still want to keep lockdep disabled in the
TAINT_OOT_MODULE case:

  - bin-only modules can cause various instabilities in
    their and in unrelated kernel code

  - they are impossible to debug for kernel developers

  - they also typically do not have the copyright license
    permission to link to the GPL-ed lockdep code.

Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xopopjjens57r0i13qnyh2yo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:16:47 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
2449b8ba07 module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
2011-11-07 07:54:42 +10:30
Hugh Dickins
4302fbc8ec panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot
When a kernel BUG or oops occurs, ChromeOS intends to panic and
immediately reboot, with stacktrace and other messages preserved in RAM
across reboot.

But the longer we delay, the more likely the user is to poweroff and
lose the info.

panic_timeout (seconds before rebooting) is set by panic= boot option or
sysctl or /proc/sys/kernel/panic; but 0 means wait forever, so at
present we have to delay at least 1 second.

Let a negative number mean reboot immediately (with the small cosmetic
benefit of suppressing that newline-less "Rebooting in %d seconds.."
message).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
Olaf Hering
d404ab0a11 move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Huang Ying
81e88fdc43 ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report platform
hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It works in so called
"Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware errors are reported to
firmware firstly, then reported to Linux by firmware. This way, some
non-standard hardware error registers or non-standard hardware link
can be checked by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.

This patch adds POLL/IRQ/NMI notification types support.

Because the memory area used to transfer hardware error information
from BIOS to Linux can be determined only in NMI, IRQ or timer
handler, but general ioremap can not be used in atomic context, so a
special version of atomic ioremap is implemented for that.

Known issue:

- Error information can not be printed for recoverable errors notified
  via NMI, because printk is not NMI-safe. Will fix this via delay
  printing to IRQ context via irq_work or make printk NMI-safe.

v2:

- adjust printk format per comments.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-01-12 03:06:19 -05:00
Anton Blanchard
863a604920 lib/bug.c: add oops end marker to WARN implementation
We are missing the oops end marker for the exception based WARN implementation
in lib/bug.c. This is useful for logfile analysis tools.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
TAMUKI Shoichi
c7ff0d9c92 panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer mode
To keep panic_timeout accuracy when running under a hypervisor, the
current implementation only spins on long time (1 second) calls to mdelay.
 That brings a good effect, but the problem is the keyboard LEDs don't
blink at all on that situation.

This patch changes to call to panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay and
keeps blinking in spite of long spin timer mode.

The time to call to mdelay is now 100ms.  Even this change will keep
panic_timeout accuracy enough when running under a hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
5b530fc183 panic: call console_verbose() in panic
Most distros turn the console verbosity down and that means a backtrace
after a panic never makes it to the console.  I assume we haven't seen
this because a panic is often preceeded by an oops which will have called
console_verbose.  There are however a lot of places we call panic
directly, and they are broken.

Use console_verbose like we do in the oops path to ensure a directly
called panic will print a backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
92946bc72f panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')
This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI
DMAR tables.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-05-19 08:37:43 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
b2be05273a panic: Allow warnings to set different taint flags
WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
are then worked-around.  These bugs do not affect the stability of the
kernel and should not set the flag for TAINT_WARN.  To allow for this,
add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint number
as argument.

Architectures that implement warnings using trap instructions instead
of calls to warn_slowpath_*() now implement __WARN_TAINT(taint)
instead of __WARN().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-05-19 08:36:48 +01:00
Anton Blanchard
8aeee85a29 panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor
I've had some complaints about panic_timeout being wildly innacurate on
shared processor PowerPC partitions (a 3 minute panic_timeout taking 30
minutes).

The problem is we loop on mdelay(1) and with a 1ms in 10ms hypervisor
timeslice each of these will take 10ms (ie 10x) longer.  I expect other
platforms with shared processor hypervisors will see the same issue.

This patch keeps the old behaviour if we have a panic_blink (only keyboard
LEDs right now) and does 1 second mdelays if we don't.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
0f4bd46ec2 kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if
panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored
for this case.

This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called
when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps,
the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The
mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the
same way as a panic.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-12-31 19:45:04 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
60d9aa758c Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits)
  jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection.
  mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk()
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance
  Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text"
  mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A
  kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n
  mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages
  mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper
  mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable
  mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size
  mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array
  mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups
  core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics
  mtd: add ARM pismo support
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer
  mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem
  mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode
  mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr
  mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC
  mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver
  ...

Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in
	drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
	drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
	drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
	kernel/printk.c
2009-12-16 10:23:43 -08:00
Simon Kagstrom
456b565cc5 core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics
The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html

(with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has
been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on
crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic()
and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason.

[dwmw2: Fix log_end handling]
Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-30 12:01:49 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
f579bbcd9b Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance
  futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions
  rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class
  rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks
  rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree
  futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()
  futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
  futex: Fix locking imbalance
  panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
  rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3
  rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
  rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
Aaro Koskinen
d014e8894d panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
Commit ffd71da4e3 ("panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after
having done the panic") moved bust_spinlocks(0) to the end of the
function, which in practice is never reached.

As a result console_unblank() is not called, and on some systems
the user may not see the panic message.

Move it back up to before the unblanking.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254483680-25578-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-05 21:08:09 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
fe002a4197 trivial: Correct print_tainted routine name in comment
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
bdff78707f trace: stop tracer in oops_enter()
If trace_printk_on_oops is set we lose interesting trace information
when the tracer is enabled across oops handling and printing. We want
the trace which might give us information _WHY_ we oopsed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-07-24 15:30:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
0f6f49a8cd Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_null
Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with
gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2db) all
WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg:

  WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20()

because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the
__builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that
caused the warning.

Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently,
using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the
right place.  This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for
the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up.

Make the function name printout use %pS while at it.

Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-16 13:41:28 -07:00
Andi Kleen
57adc4d2db Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build
When building with gcc 3.2 I get thousands of warnings such as

include/linux/gfp.h: In function `allocflags_to_migratetype':
include/linux/gfp.h:105: warning: null format string

due to passing a NULL format string to warn_slowpath() in

#define __WARN()		warn_slowpath(__FILE__, __LINE__, NULL)

Split this case out into a separate call.  This also shrinks the kernel
slightly:

          text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4802274  707668  712704 6222646  5ef336 vmlinux
          text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4799027  703572  712704 6215303  5ed687 vmlinux

due to removeing one argument from the commonly-called __WARN().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of `empty']
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06 16:36:09 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b48ccb095a locking: clarify kernel-taint warning message
Andi Kleen reported this message triggering on non-lockdep kernels:

   Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint

Clarify the message to say 'lock debugging' - debug_locks_off()
turns off all things lock debugging, not just lockdep.

[ Impact: change kernel warning message text ]

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-23 09:36:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
574bbe7820 lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
Impact: broaden lockdep checks

Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
on another things that require lockdep.

The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9eeba6138c lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers

Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...

But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.

This patch adds this missing warning.

Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.

v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
    open coded xchg().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c95dbf27e2 panic: clean up kernel/panic.c
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Clean up kernel/panic.c some more and make it more consistent.

LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:25:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d1dedb52ac panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Remove an ugly #ifdef CONFIG_SMP from panic(), by providing
an smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too.

LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:24:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ffd71da4e3 panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
Impact: eliminate secondary warnings during panic()

We can panic() in a number of difficult, atomic contexts, hence
we use bust_spinlocks(1) in panic() to increase oops_in_progress,
which prevents various debug checks we have in place.

But in practice this protection only covers the first few printk's
done by panic() - it does not cover the later attempt to stop all
other CPUs and kexec(). If a secondary warning triggers in one of
those facilities that can make the panic message scroll off.

So do bust_spinlocks(0) only much later in panic(). (which code
is only reached if panic policy is relaxed that it can return
after a warning message)

Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:06:47 +01:00
Tejun Heo
5d707e9c8e stackprotector: update make rules
Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup

Stackprotector make rules had the following problems.

* cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and
  kernel/panic.c.

* -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration.

Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile
and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off.  While at
it, prepare for 32bit support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:54 +01:00