Merge branch 'master'

1 files changed, 96 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 126dc43f1c7..acd95adddb9 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 
-int panic_timeout;
 int panic_on_oops;
 int tainted;
+static int pause_on_oops;
+static int pause_on_oops_flag;
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
 
+int panic_timeout;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout);
 
 struct notifier_block *panic_notifier_list;
@@ -174,3 +177,95 @@ void add_taint(unsigned flag)
 	tainted |= flag;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_taint);
+
+static int __init pause_on_oops_setup(char *str)
+{
+	pause_on_oops = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("pause_on_oops=", pause_on_oops_setup);
+
+static void spin_msec(int msecs)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < msecs; i++) {
+		touch_nmi_watchdog();
+		mdelay(1);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * It just happens that oops_enter() and oops_exit() are identically
+ * implemented...
+ */
+static void do_oops_enter_exit(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	static int spin_counter;
+
+	if (!pause_on_oops)
+		return;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pause_on_oops_lock, flags);
+	if (pause_on_oops_flag == 0) {
+		/* This CPU may now print the oops message */
+		pause_on_oops_flag = 1;
+	} else {
+		/* We need to stall this CPU */
+		if (!spin_counter) {
+			/* This CPU gets to do the counting */
+			spin_counter = pause_on_oops;
+			do {
+				spin_unlock(&pause_on_oops_lock);
+				spin_msec(MSEC_PER_SEC);
+				spin_lock(&pause_on_oops_lock);
+			} while (--spin_counter);
+			pause_on_oops_flag = 0;
+		} else {
+			/* This CPU waits for a different one */
+			while (spin_counter) {
+				spin_unlock(&pause_on_oops_lock);
+				spin_msec(1);
+				spin_lock(&pause_on_oops_lock);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pause_on_oops_lock, flags);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return true if the calling CPU is allowed to print oops-related info.  This
+ * is a bit racy..
+ */
+int oops_may_print(void)
+{
+	return pause_on_oops_flag == 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called when the architecture enters its oops handler, before it prints
+ * anything.  If this is the first CPU to oops, and it's oopsing the first time
+ * then let it proceed.
+ *
+ * This is all enabled by the pause_on_oops kernel boot option.  We do all this
+ * to ensure that oopses don't scroll off the screen.  It has the side-effect
+ * of preventing later-oopsing CPUs from mucking up the display, too.
+ *
+ * It turns out that the CPU which is allowed to print ends up pausing for the
+ * right duration, whereas all the other CPUs pause for twice as long: once in
+ * oops_enter(), once in oops_exit().
+ */
+void oops_enter(void)
+{
+	do_oops_enter_exit();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called when the architecture exits its oops handler, after printing
+ * everything.
+ */
+void oops_exit(void)
+{
+	do_oops_enter_exit();
+}