[PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(2014/10/28 3:15), Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/27/2014 02:05 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
>> Hi Prarit,
>>
>> On 10/24/2014 08:53 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>> There have been several times where I have had to rebuild a kernel to
>>> cause a panic when hitting a WARN() in the code in order to get a crash
>>> dump from a system.  Sometimes this is easy to do, other times (such as
>>> in the case of a remote admin) it is not trivial to send new images to the
>>> user.panic_on_stackoverflow
>>>
>>> A much easier method would be a switch to change the WARN() over to a
>>> BUG().  This makes debugging easier in that I can now test the actual
>>> image the WARN() was seen on and I do not have to engage in remote
>>> debugging.
>>>
>>> This patch adds a bug_on_warn kernel parameter and
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/bug_on_warn calls BUG() in the warn_slowpath_common()
>>> path.  The function will still print out the location of the warning.
>>>
>>> An example of the bug_on_warn output:
>>>
>>> The first line below is from the WARN_ON() to output the WARN_ON()'s location.
>>> After that the new BUG() call is displayed.
>>>
>>>  WARNING: CPU: 27 PID: 3204 at
>>> /home/rhel7/redhat/debug/dummy-module/dummy-module.c:25 init_dummy+0x28/0x30
>>> [dummy_module]()
>>>  bug_on_warn set, calling BUG()...
>>>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>  kernel BUG at kernel/panic.c:434!
>>
>> Seems reasonable-I'm wondering why you just don't call panic() in this
>> case. The BUG() call at line '434' doesn't at anything since its just being
>> called from panic.c.

+1, I like calling panic() instead of BUG() :)

Thank you,

> 
> Hmm ... I didn't even think about that.
> 
>>
>> So something like 'panic_on_warn' would seem to be more appropriate
>> in keeping with things like 'panic_on_oops' or 'panic_on_stackoverflow'.
> 
> I like it a lot better that way too :)  I'm changing it to panic_on_warn unless
> anyone has any strenuous objections.
> 
> P.
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Jason
>>
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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com