[PATCH v3 15/15] powerpc: Add support for suppressing warning backtraces

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Apr 3 19:14:16 PDT 2024


Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> writes:
> Add name of functions triggering warning backtraces to the __bug_table
> object section to enable support for suppressing WARNING backtraces.
>
> To limit image size impact, the pointer to the function name is only added
> to the __bug_table section if both CONFIG_KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE and
> CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE are enabled. Otherwise, the __func__ assembly
> parameter is replaced with a (dummy) NULL parameter to avoid an image size
> increase due to unused __func__ entries (this is necessary because __func__
> is not a define but a virtual variable).
>
> Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> ---
> v2:
> - Rebased to v6.9-rc1
> - Added Tested-by:, Acked-by:, and Reviewed-by: tags
> - Introduced KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE configuration option
> v3:
> - Rebased to v6.9-rc2
>
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

I ran it through some build and boot tests, LGTM.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers



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