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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
	shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Use WARN instead of dump_stack when printing EEH error backtrace
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:16:48 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418151648.3106b963@kryten> (raw)


When we get an EEH error we just print a backtrace with dump_stack
which is rather cryptic. We really should print something before
spewing out the backtrace.

Also switch from dump_stack to WARN so we get more information about
the fail - what modules were loaded, what process was running etc.
This was useful information when debugging a recent EEH subsystem bug.

The standard WARN output should also get picked up by monitoring
tools like kerneloops.

The register dump is of questionable value here but I figured it was
better to use something standard and not roll my own.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---

Index: linux-build/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c
===================================================================
--- linux-build.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c	2012-04-13 10:29:53.576534339 +1000
+++ linux-build/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c	2012-04-13 10:51:22.592822459 +1000
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ int eeh_dn_check_failure(struct device_n
 	 * a stack trace will help the device-driver authors figure
 	 * out what happened.  So print that out.
 	 */
-	dump_stack();
+	WARN(1, "EEH: failure detected\n");
 	return 1;
 
 dn_unlock:

                 reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18  5:16 UTC|newest]

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