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-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c97
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();
+}