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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2014-06-06 14:37:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-06 16:08:12 -0700
commitf06e5153f4ae2e2f3b0300f0e260e40cb7fefd45 (patch)
tree0f47c2a93b1f1a3fab27ee48aa34509e13592256 /kernel
parenta219ccf4637396a2392bfbec7c12acbfe2b06b46 (diff)
kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option for kdump after panic_notifers
Add a "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot option to run kdump after running panic_notifiers and dump kmsg. This can help rare situations where kdump fails because of unstable crashed kernel or hardware failure (memory corruption on critical data/code), or the 2nd kernel is already broken by the 1st kernel (it's a broken behavior, but who can guarantee that the "crashed" kernel works correctly?). Usage: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" to kernel boot option. Note that this actually increases risks of the failure of kdump. This option should be set only if you worry about the rare case of kdump failure rather than increasing the chance of success. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Motohiro Kosaki <Motohiro.Kosaki@us.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoru MORIYA <satoru.moriya.br@hitachi.com> Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c23
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index d02fa9fef46a..62e16cef9cc2 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static unsigned long tainted_mask;
static int pause_on_oops;
static int pause_on_oops_flag;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
+static bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(panic_timeout);
@@ -112,9 +113,11 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
/*
* If we have crashed and we have a crash kernel loaded let it handle
* everything else.
- * Do we want to call this before we try to display a message?
+ * If we want to run this after calling panic_notifiers, pass
+ * the "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option to the kernel.
*/
- crash_kexec(NULL);
+ if (!crash_kexec_post_notifiers)
+ crash_kexec(NULL);
/*
* Note smp_send_stop is the usual smp shutdown function, which
@@ -131,6 +134,15 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
+ /*
+ * If you doubt kdump always works fine in any situation,
+ * "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" offers you a chance to run
+ * panic_notifiers and dumping kmsg before kdump.
+ * Note: since some panic_notifiers can make crashed kernel
+ * more unstable, it can increase risks of the kdump failure too.
+ */
+ crash_kexec(NULL);
+
bust_spinlocks(0);
if (!panic_blink)
@@ -472,6 +484,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644);
core_param(pause_on_oops, pause_on_oops, int, 0644);
+static int __init setup_crash_kexec_post_notifiers(char *s)
+{
+ crash_kexec_post_notifiers = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("crash_kexec_post_notifiers", setup_crash_kexec_post_notifiers);
+
static int __init oops_setup(char *s)
{
if (!s)