linux/kernel/panic.c, branch v2.6.34

panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor

2010-03-06T19:26:33Z

I've had some complaints about panic_timeout being wildly innacurate on shared processor PowerPC partitions (a 3 minute panic_timeout taking 30 minutes). The problem is we loop on mdelay(1) and with a 1ms in 10ms hypervisor timeslice each of these will take 10ms (ie 10x) longer. I expect other platforms with shared processor hypervisors will see the same issue. This patch keeps the old behaviour if we have a panic_blink (only keyboard LEDs right now) and does 1 second mdelays if we don't. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well

2009-12-31T19:45:04Z

crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored for this case. This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps, the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the same way as a panic. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

2009-12-16T18:23:43Z

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits) jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection. mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk() mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text" mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics mtd: add ARM pismo support mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver ... Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c kernel/printk.c

core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics

2009-11-30T12:01:49Z

The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html (with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic() and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason. [dwmw2: Fix log_end handling] Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-10-08T19:16:35Z

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm() futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup futex: Fix locking imbalance panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3 rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett

panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying

2009-10-05T19:08:09Z

Commit ffd71da4e3f ("panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic") moved bust_spinlocks(0) to the end of the function, which in practice is never reached. As a result console_unblank() is not called, and on some systems the user may not see the panic message. Move it back up to before the unblanking. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1254483680-25578-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

trivial: Correct print_tainted routine name in comment

2009-09-21T13:14:53Z

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

trace: stop tracer in oops_enter()

2009-07-24T19:30:45Z

If trace_printk_on_oops is set we lose interesting trace information when the tracer is enabled across oops handling and printing. We want the trace which might give us information _WHY_ we oopsed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_null

2009-05-16T20:41:28Z

Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2dbf968fdbe516359688094eef4d46581) all WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg: WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20() because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the __builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that caused the warning. Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently, using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the right place. This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up. Make the function name printout use %pS while at it. Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build

2009-05-06T23:36:09Z

When building with gcc 3.2 I get thousands of warnings such as include/linux/gfp.h: In function `allocflags_to_migratetype': include/linux/gfp.h:105: warning: null format string due to passing a NULL format string to warn_slowpath() in #define __WARN() warn_slowpath(__FILE__, __LINE__, NULL) Split this case out into a separate call. This also shrinks the kernel slightly: text data bss dec hex filename 4802274 707668 712704 6222646 5ef336 vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 4799027 703572 712704 6215303 5ed687 vmlinux due to removeing one argument from the commonly-called __WARN(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of `empty'] Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds