From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, jason.wessel@windriver.com,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 05:16:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141028121636.GC3274@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414155207-29839-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:53:27AM -0400, 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.
>
> 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.
IMHO this would be better and far more generically done with kdb.
You would need two things:
- Extend the break point command to run another command on a break point.
- Add a command line (or possibly /proc) option to execute some kdb commands at
kernel boot.
Then just set a break point on the warn function and execute magic sysrq c
from kdb.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 12:53 [PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn Prarit Bhargava
2014-10-27 18:05 ` Jason Baron
2014-10-27 18:15 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-10-28 2:32 ` Dave Young
2014-10-28 5:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-28 0:00 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-10-28 12:16 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-10-28 12:22 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-10-28 12:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-28 12:44 ` Andi Kleen
2014-10-28 12:48 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-10-28 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2014-10-28 13:19 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-10-28 12:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-28 12:59 ` Andi Kleen
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