Re: [patch] Printk kernel version in WARN_ON

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:42:18 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > ok so how about putting the same into dump_stack() instead? (see 
> > below) added bonus is that it's now present for all dumps that use 
> > dump_stack(), not just WARN_ON() (the format I copied from the exact 
> > line used by oopses)
> 
> nice! I did things like this in -rt because it really helps to know 
> which process does a WARN_ON() or raw dump_stack().
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> unless objections we'll put this into the x86 git tree.
> 

Should be done for all architectures, methinks.

If so, an appropriate way to do that would be to do
s/dump_stack/arch_dump_stack/ and do a single all-arch implementation of
dump_stack().  (Where we might add new goodies in the future).

Problem is that this will add a new an pointless entry to all the stack
dumps, unless the arch_dump_stack() implementation is smart enough to skip the
innermost frame.