kernel debug: support resetting WARN*_ONCE

I like _ONCE warnings because it's guaranteed that they don't flood the
log.

During testing I find it useful to reset the state of the once warnings,
so that I can rerun tests and see if they trigger again, or can
guarantee that a test run always hits the same warnings.

This patch adds a debugfs interface to reset all the _ONCE warnings so
that they appear again:

  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once

This is implemented by putting all the warning booleans into a special
section, and clearing it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017221455.6740-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5b1f5d547be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE only print a warning once.
+
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once
+
+clears the state and allows the warnings to print once again.
+This can be useful after test suite runs to reproduce problems.