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SubjectRe: [PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn


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.

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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