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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/panic.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 1 |
8 files changed, 61 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 6c0b9f27e465..bc4bd5a44b88 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -471,6 +471,13 @@ format. Crash is available on Dave Anderson's site at the following URL: http://people.redhat.com/~anderson/ +Trigger Kdump on WARN() +======================= + +The kernel parameter, panic_on_warn, calls panic() in all WARN() paths. This +will cause a kdump to occur at the panic() call. In cases where a user wants +to specify this during runtime, /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn can be set to 1 +to achieve the same behaviour. Contact ======= diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 838f3776c924..d6eb3636fe5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2509,6 +2509,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. timeout < 0: reboot immediately Format: <timeout> + panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump + on a WARN(). + crash_kexec_post_notifiers Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 57baff5bdb80..b5d0c8501a18 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - overflowuid - panic - panic_on_oops -- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi - panic_on_stackoverflow +- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi +- panic_on_warn - pid_max - powersave-nap [ PPC only ] - printk @@ -527,19 +528,6 @@ the recommended setting is 60. ============================================================== -panic_on_unrecovered_nmi: - -The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is -to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific -computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error -dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propagated. - -A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons -such as power management so the default is off. That sysctl works like -the existing panic controls already in that directory. - -============================================================== - panic_on_oops: Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered. @@ -563,6 +551,30 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled. ============================================================== +panic_on_unrecovered_nmi: + +The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is +to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific +computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error +dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propagated. + +A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons +such as power management so the default is off. That sysctl works like +the existing panic controls already in that directory. + +============================================================== + +panic_on_warn: + +Calls panic() in the WARN() path when set to 1. This is useful to avoid +a kernel rebuild when attempting to kdump at the location of a WARN(). + +0: only WARN(), default behaviour. + +1: call panic() after printing out WARN() location. + +============================================================== + perf_cpu_time_max_percent: Hints to the kernel how much CPU time it should be allowed to diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 446d76a87ba1..233ea8107038 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ extern int panic_timeout; extern int panic_on_oops; extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi; extern int panic_on_io_nmi; +extern int panic_on_warn; extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow; /* * Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h index 43aaba1cc037..0956373b56db 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ enum KERN_MAX_LOCK_DEPTH=74, /* int: rtmutex's maximum lock depth */ KERN_NMI_WATCHDOG=75, /* int: enable/disable nmi watchdog */ KERN_PANIC_ON_NMI=76, /* int: whether we will panic on an unrecovered */ + KERN_PANIC_ON_WARN=77, /* int: call panic() in WARN() functions */ }; diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index cf80672b7924..4d8d6f906dec 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static int pause_on_oops; static int pause_on_oops_flag; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock); static bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers; +int panic_on_warn __read_mostly; int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(panic_timeout); @@ -428,6 +429,17 @@ static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller, if (args) vprintk(args->fmt, args->args); + if (panic_on_warn) { + /* + * This thread may hit another WARN() in the panic path. + * Resetting this prevents additional WARN() from panicking the + * system on this thread. Other threads are blocked by the + * panic_mutex in panic(). + */ + panic_on_warn = 0; + panic("panic_on_warn set ...\n"); + } + print_modules(); dump_stack(); print_oops_end_marker(); @@ -485,6 +497,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail); core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644); core_param(pause_on_oops, pause_on_oops, int, 0644); +core_param(panic_on_warn, panic_on_warn, int, 0644); static int __init setup_crash_kexec_post_notifiers(char *s) { diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 15f2511a1b7c..7c54ff79afd7 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1104,6 +1104,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, #endif + { + .procname = "panic_on_warn", + .data = &panic_on_warn, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, + }, { } }; diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c index 9a4f750a2963..7e7746a42a62 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_kern_table[] = { { CTL_INT, KERN_COMPAT_LOG, "compat-log" }, { CTL_INT, KERN_MAX_LOCK_DEPTH, "max_lock_depth" }, { CTL_INT, KERN_PANIC_ON_NMI, "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" }, + { CTL_INT, KERN_PANIC_ON_WARN, "panic_on_warn" }, {} }; |