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Delete WARN_ON_ONCE and say the new global mechanism is good >>> enough to capture the first WARN_ON, everyone always uses it always >>> and then nobody needs to think about this anymore when writing new >>> code. > Interesting. This would cause WARN_ON*() to act similarly to lockdep, in > that the first instance is the only one that works. > > That works, but if-and-only-if the system is kept completely WARN-free. > However, I have a mitigation for that, below. > >> >> Well that is simpler :) >> >> I have encountered situations where I've had more than one and needed 2nd+ >> but it is rare as you say. >> >> My late night incoherent babbling yesterday was perhaps because I >> misunderstood David/John as to what they encountered in the past... maybe >> they can clarify... > > I've debugged lots of production systems, often these were large HPC > clusters and supercomputers. I've seen: > > a) Long up-times, with (of course!) relatively small dmesg buffer sizes, > so that early logs are long gone. This means that WARN_ON_ONCE() is > quite often gone (overwritten). This is common. > > The worst part is that if you go to reproduce a problem, you don't > see the next warning in the logs!! This is devastating, especially if > the site makes it hard to ask for a system reboot. (If you have > ~20,000 nodes in the cluster, a reboot is not a small affair.) > > b) WARN_ON() loops that fill up the dmesg buffer immediately, which > of course also overwrites anything leading up to the first WARN_ON. > > However, (b) is rare on production kernels--it's more commonly > self-inflicted, if I make a mistake and write WARN_ON() when I should > have written WARN_ON_ONCE(), in a custom build to explore a problem. > > c) Other printk-based noise in a loop, occasionally this also wraps > the dmesg buffer. Especially if a customer has done a bit of their > own "special" logging code. > > >> >> I do find myself grepping dmesg to find the first warning and it's >> _annoying_ to do so, so this would be handy. >> >> But I'm not sure it'd justify getting rid of WARN_ON_ONCE() when you are in >> a loop or something and now your dmesg is going to go to hell, still useful >> not to do that, esp. if you know there's no value to further warnings > > In all cases, the ideal outcome is a dmesg buffer that includes (let's > fantasize for a moment): > > 1) the earliest dmesg output (showing any oddness with system > configuration, and what hardware was brought online, etc), plus > > 2) the first problem that is logged, plus > > 3) ...sometimes two or even three things happen in order to get to the > problem, so (again, fantasizing!) really the first *three* warnings > would be good to have. > > So this is just a 3-element array of global warnings--not another > circular buffer, but a little larger than a TAINT or lockdep type > of capture. Can't we do something very simple to get started: remove VM_WARN_ON_ONCE and implement VM_WARN_ON as something that uses a single global variable to print up to *magic value* 10 warnings. Then we'll simply stop printing any further warnings. Races when updating that global variable? Who cars if we end up printing 11. That is, have a global limit over all of the VM_WARN. Later, we can do more advanced stuff, such as storing them in some other buffer to persist them etc. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb