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authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>2012-03-05 14:59:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-05 15:49:42 -0800
commitc22ab332902333f83766017478c1ef6607ace681 (patch)
tree20b7f296327cf1fd9349b7c99fdb11be1f4ff750 /include
parent550cf00dbc8ee402bef71628cb71246493dd4500 (diff)
kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default
Since commit 04c6862c055f ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot. This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops before it's been picked up by userspace. In addition, some pstore backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in reboot as a result. This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also be changed from userspace). Without it, the code will only be run on failure paths rather than on normal paths. The option can be enabled in environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a reboot was cleanly requested or not. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kmsg_dump.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
index fee66317e071..35f7237ec972 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -15,13 +15,18 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+/*
+ * Keep this list arranged in rough order of priority. Anything listed after
+ * KMSG_DUMP_OOPS will not be logged by default unless printk.always_kmsg_dump
+ * is passed to the kernel.
+ */
enum kmsg_dump_reason {
- KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
+ KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
+ KMSG_DUMP_EMERG,
KMSG_DUMP_RESTART,
KMSG_DUMP_HALT,
KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF,
- KMSG_DUMP_EMERG,
};
/**