[PATCH V6] panic: Move panic_print before kmsg dumpers

[Guilherme G. Piccoli]

On 22/02/2022 22:27, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> [...]
> Hmm. Yeah, well, that's a bit of a tricky interface now
> 
> 	panic()
> 		// everything (if corresponding bits set), no console flush
> 		panic_print_sys_info(false)
> 		...
> 		// console flush only if corresponding bit set
> 		panic_print_sys_info(true)
> 
> 
> 
> If everyone is fine then OK.
> 
> But I _personally_ would look into changing this to something like this:
> 
> 	#define EARLY_PANIC_MASK (PANIC_PRINT_FOO | PANIC_PRINT_BAR | ...)
> 	#define LATE_PANIC_MASK (PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG)
> 	panic()
> 		panic_print_sys_info(panic_print & EARLY_PANIC_MASK)
> 		...
> 		panic_print_sys_info(panic_print & LATE_PANIC_MASK)

Hi Sergey, notice that panic_print_sys_info() currently doesn't have a
parameter! The prototype (without this patch) is:

static void panic_print_sys_info(void);

So, it consumes the "panic_print" global variable (which matches the
command-line parameter / sysctl), hence to implement your suggestion
either we need a refactor in panic_print_sys_info(), adding a parameter
(more or less what the patch is already doing, but with a bit more
changes) or we override the global variable twice in panic(), before the
function calls.

As you said, it's possible and a matter of personal coding style. I'd be
fine if more people ask that, but if everyone is fine with the current
implementation, I'd rather get this patch merged as is, since we need it
and couldn't even make it for 5.17 heh

Cheers,


Guilherme