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authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>2012-03-05 14:59:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-05 15:49:42 -0800
commitc22ab332902333f83766017478c1ef6607ace681 (patch)
tree20b7f296327cf1fd9349b7c99fdb11be1f4ff750 /kernel
parent550cf00dbc8ee402bef71628cb71246493dd4500 (diff)
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kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default
Since commit 04c6862c055f ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot. This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops before it's been picked up by userspace. In addition, some pstore backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in reboot as a result. This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also be changed from userspace). Without it, the code will only be run on failure paths rather than on normal paths. The option can be enabled in environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a reboot was cleanly requested or not. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 13c0a1143f49..32690a0b7a18 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -702,6 +702,9 @@ static bool printk_time = 0;
#endif
module_param_named(time, printk_time, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+static bool always_kmsg_dump;
+module_param_named(always_kmsg_dump, always_kmsg_dump, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
/* Check if we have any console registered that can be called early in boot. */
static int have_callable_console(void)
{
@@ -1732,6 +1735,9 @@ void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
unsigned long l1, l2;
unsigned long flags;
+ if ((reason > KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) && !always_kmsg_dump)
+ return;
+
/* Theoretically, the log could move on after we do this, but
there's not a lot we can do about that. The new messages
will overwrite the start of what we dump. */