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, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index bdd18afa19a4..672a91dc20fe 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 
 #define PANIC_TIMER_STEP 100
 #define PANIC_BLINK_SPD 18
@@ -587,6 +589,32 @@ void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, int line)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_null);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BUG
+
+/* Support resetting WARN*_ONCE state */
+
+static int clear_warn_once_set(void *data, u64 val)
+{
+	memset(__start_once, 0, __end_once - __start_once);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(clear_warn_once_fops,
+			NULL,
+			clear_warn_once_set,
+			"%lld\n");
+
+static __init int register_warn_debugfs(void)
+{
+	/* Don't care about failure */
+	debugfs_create_file("clear_warn_once", 0644, NULL,
+			    NULL, &clear_warn_once_fops);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+device_initcall(register_warn_debugfs);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 
 /*