Re: [PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn

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.

So something like 'panic_on_warn' would seem to be more appropriate
in keeping with things like 'panic_on_oops' or 'panic_on_stackoverflow'.

Thanks,

-Jason