linux-toradex.git/kernel/panic.c, branch imx-android-r10.4

panic: call console_verbose() in panic

2010-05-27T16:12:53+00:00

Most distros turn the console verbosity down and that means a backtrace
after a panic never makes it to the console.  I assume we haven't seen
this because a panic is often preceeded by an oops which will have called
console_verbose.  There are however a lot of places we call panic
directly, and they are broken.

Use console_verbose like we do in the oops path to ensure a directly
called panic will print a backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')

2010-05-19T07:37:43+00:00

This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI
DMAR tables.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

panic: Allow warnings to set different taint flags

2010-05-19T07:36:48+00:00

WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
are then worked-around.  These bugs do not affect the stability of the
kernel and should not set the flag for TAINT_WARN.  To allow for this,
add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint number
as argument.

Architectures that implement warnings using trap instructions instead
of calls to warn_slowpath_*() now implement __WARN_TAINT(taint)
instead of __WARN().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Tested-by: Paul Mundt 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor

2010-03-06T19:26:33+00:00

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

2009-12-31T19:45:04+00:00

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

2009-12-16T18:23:43+00:00

* 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

2009-11-30T12:01:49+00:00

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

2009-10-08T19:16:35+00:00

* '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

2009-10-05T19:08:09+00:00

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

2009-09-21T13:14:53+00:00

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