Re: [RFC Patch 1/2][slimdump] Append CRASH_REASON to VMCOREINFO elf-note

["K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:11:57AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 03:41:57PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> > Allow various crash paths to append the reason of crash into the
> > VMCOREINFO elf-note through the field CRASH_REASON. We also make the
> > fatal machine check exceptions append "PANIC_MCE" as the crash reason.
> > This string will be recognised by upstream tools like makedumpfile and
> > crash to generate slimdump.
> > 
> > With increased usage of the CRASH_REASON field, the crash strings can be
> > encoded for better usage.
> > 

[snipped]

> > diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> > index dc7bc08..a731693 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> > @@ -1080,6 +1080,11 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry,
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >  
> > +__weak char *arch_add_crash_reason(void)
> > +{
> > +	return (char *)NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> >  void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >  {
> >  	/* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load
> > @@ -1411,6 +1416,7 @@ static void update_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
> >  void crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
> >  {
> >  	vmcoreinfo_append_str("CRASHTIME=%ld", get_seconds());
> > +	vmcoreinfo_append_str("\nCRASH_REASON=%s\n", arch_add_crash_reason());
> 
> I think don't even create a CRASH_REASON= entry if arch returns a NULL
> string.
>

Yes, we could do that. I'll change the code accordingly in the next
revision of the patchset.

Thanks,
K.Prasad