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2007-05-08move die notifier handling to common codeChristoph Hellwig
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place) arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage] [bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handlingCorey Minyard
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an NMI. This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in. It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: Page-align the GDTJeremy Fitzhardinge
Xen wants a dedicated page for the GDT. I believe VMI likes it too. lguest, KVM and native don't care. Simple transformation to page-aligned "struct gdt_page". Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: i386 separate hardware-defined TSS from Linux additionsRusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Please clean it up properly with two structs. Not sure about this, now I've done it. Running it here. If you like it, I can do x86-64 as well. == lguest defines its own TSS struct because the "struct tss_struct" contains linux-specific additions. Andi asked me to split the struct in processor.h. Unfortunately it makes usage a little awkward. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: cleanup GDT AccessRusty Russell
Now we have an explicit per-cpu GDT variable, we don't need to keep the descriptors around to use them to find the GDT: expose cpu_gdt directly. We could go further and make load_gdt() pack the descriptor for us, or even assume it means "load the current cpu's GDT" which is what it always does. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86: Fix i386 and x86_64 fault information pollutionAndi Kleen
a userspace fault or a kernelspace fault which will result in the immediate death of the process. They should not be filled in as a result of a kernelspace fault which can be fixed up. Otherwise, if the process is handling SIGSEGV and examining the fault information, this can result in the kernel space fault trashing the previously stored fault information if it arrives between the userspace fault happening and the SIGSEGV being delivered to the process. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> -- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
2007-02-13[PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reportsChuck Ebbert
Sometimes developers need to see more object code in an oops report, e.g. when kernel may be corrupted at runtime. Add the "code_bytes" option for this. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13[PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Convert the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs as the segment for per-processor data. This is because some processors show a small but measurable performance gain for reloading a NULL segment selector (as %fs generally is in user-space) versus a non-NULL one (as %gs generally is). On modern processors the difference is very small, perhaps undetectable. Some old AMD "K6 3D+" processors are noticably slower when %fs is used rather than %gs; I have no idea why this might be, but I think they're sufficiently rare that it doesn't matter much. This patch also fixes the math emulator, which had not been adjusted to match the changed struct pt_regs. [frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com: fixit with gdb] [mingo@elte.hu: Fix KVM too] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-15Remove stack unwinder for nowLinus Torvalds
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed. We can put it back when it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse. In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] Generic BUG for i386Jeremy Fitzhardinge
This makes i386 use the generic BUG machinery. There are no functional changes from the old i386 implementation. The main advantage in using the generic BUG machinery for i386 is that the inlined overhead of BUG is just the ud2a instruction; the file+line(+function) information are no longer inlined into the instruction stream. This reduces cache pollution, and makes disassembly work properly. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locksPeter Zijlstra
Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] unwinder: more sanity checks in Dwarf2 unwinderJan Beulich
Tighten the requirements on both input to and output from the Dwarf2 unwinder. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: touch softlockup during backtracingDave Jones
Sometimes the soft watchdog fires after we're done oopsing. See http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-25-11-2006.html for an example. AK: changed to touch_nmi_watchdog() Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_printChuck Ebbert
Add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_print. This lets users change the amount of raw stack data printed in dump_stack() without having to reboot. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user in fault pathsAndi Kleen
Makes the intention of the code cleaner to read and avoids a potential deadlock on mmap_sem. Also change the types of the arguments to not include __user because they're really not user addresses. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Mention PCI instead of RAM in NMI parity error messageAndi Kleen
On modern systems RAM errors don't cause NMIs, but it's usually caused by PCI SERR. Mention PCI instead of RAM in the printk. Reported by r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp (Ryutaro Hayashi) Cc: r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: add sleazy FPU optimizationChuck Ebbert
i386 port of the sLeAZY-fpu feature. Chuck reports that this gives him a +/- 0.4% improvement on his simple benchmark x86_64 description follows: Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every* context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU context lazily. This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive save/restore all the time). However for very frequent FPU users... you take an extra trap every context switch. The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context gets restored every context switch. If the app indeed uses the FPU, the trap is avoided. (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously). After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until there are 5 consecutive ones again). The reason for this is to give apps that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some time. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: espfix cleanupStas Sergeev
Clean up the espfix code: - Introduced PER_CPU() macro to be used from asm - Introduced GET_DESC_BASE() macro to be used from asm - Rewrote the fixup code in asm, as calling a C code with the altered %ss appeared to be unsafe - No longer altering the stack from a .fixup section - 16bit per-cpu stack is no longer used, instead the stack segment base is patched the way so that the high word of the kernel and user %esp are the same. - Added the limit-patching for the espfix segment. (Chuck Ebbert) [jeremy@goop.org: use the x86 scaling addressing mode rather than shifting] Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: remove default_ldt, and simplify ldt-setting.Jeremy Fitzhardinge
This patch removes the default_ldt[] array, as it has been unused since iBCS stopped being supported. This means it is now possible to actually set an empty LDT segment. In order to deal with this, the set_ldt_desc/load_LDT pair has been replaced with a single set_ldt() operation which is responsible for both setting up the LDT descriptor in the GDT, and reloading the LDT register. If there are no LDT entries, the LDT register is loaded with a NULL descriptor. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: remove pointless printk from i386 oops outputDave Jones
This just got removed on x86-64, do the same on 32bit. It always annoyed me when this ate a line of oops output pushing interesting stuff off the screen. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Compress stack unwinder outputAndi Kleen
The unwinder has some extra newlines, which eat up loads of screen space when it spews. (See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=137900 for a nasty example). warning_symbol-> and warning-> already printk a newline, so don't add one in the strings passed to them. [AK: redone for new code] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: shorten lines in unwinder to be <= 80 charactersAndi Kleen
Andrew complained about > 80 character lines in the new unwinder. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-11-17x86: be more careful when walking back the frame pointer chainLinus Torvalds
When showing the stack backtrace, make sure that we never accept not only an unchanging frame pointer, but also a frame pointer that moves back down the stack frame. It must always grow up (toward older stack frames). I doubt this has triggered, but a subtly corrupt stack with extremely unlucky contents could cause us to loop forever on a bogus endless frame pointer chain. This review was triggered by much worse problems happening in some of the other stack unwinding code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriateSerge E. Hallyn
In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the appropriate one to use. This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname helper. Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname(). Hope I picked all the right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c. These are now changed to utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous patch (2/7) [akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-30[PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctlsAndi Kleen
Use prototypes in headers Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-27[PATCH] x86: use probe_kernel_address in handle_BUG()Andrew Morton
Avoid possible deadlock on a BUG() inside down_write(mmap_sem). The deadlock can only occur if something has gone horridly wrong, because a fault here shouldn't happen. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits) [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter. [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros. [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64) [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1 [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers. [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output. ...
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: show_registers(): try harder to print failing codeChuck Ebbert
show_registers() tries to dump failing code starting 43 bytes before the offending instruction, but this address can be bad, for example in a device driver where the failing instruction is less than 43 bytes from the start of the driver's code. When that happens, try to dump code starting at the failing instruction instead of printing no code at all. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.Dave Jones
Sometimes, bug reports come in where we've had an oops, and the only record we have is what the reporter saw on screen shortly before the system locked up completely. Unfortunatly, syslog only prints lines beginning with KERN_EMERG to the console, so some lines get lost. An example of this can be seen at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203723 Some of this information isn't vital to diagnosis, but some parts are useful, such as the tainted flag. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlersFernando Luis Vázquez Cao
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack corruption. Note: This problem was originally spotted and solved by Andi Kleen in the x86_64 architecture. This patch is an adaption of his patch for i386. AK: Merged with current code which was a bit different. AK: Removed printk in nmi handler that shouldn't be there in the first time AK: Added missing include. AK: added KPROBES_END Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Descriptor and trap table cleanups.Rusty Russell
The implementation comes from Zach's [RFC, PATCH 10/24] i386 Vmi descriptor changes: Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for custom exception frames or extra layers of indirection above the guest fault / IRQ handlers. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Get ebp from unwinder state when continuing fallback backtraceAndi Kleen
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Terminate backtrace fallback early if unwinder stack pointer ↵Andi Kleen
is zero Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Do stacktracer conversion tooAndi Kleen
Following x86-64 patches. Reuses code from them in fact. Convert the standard backtracer to do all output using callbacks. Use the x86-64 stack tracer implementation that uses these callbacks to implement the stacktrace interface. This allows to use the new dwarf2 unwinder for stacktrace and get better backtraces. Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] x86: x86 clean up nmi panic messagesDon Zickus
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more sense when they are displayed. This is mainly a cosmetic fix and shouldn't impact any normal code path. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMIDon Zickus
To quote Alan Cox: The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated. A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in that directory. This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least panic rather than cause problems further down the line. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and ↵Don Zickus
reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as they are no longer needed. The various subsystems are modified to register with the die_notifier instead. Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] x86: Cleanup NMI interrupt pathDon Zickus
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path. Instead of being gated by if the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog, reseting it if enabled. This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback). Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386: Add SMP support on i386 to reservation frameworkDon Zickus
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware. A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read. In addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the watchdog or not. This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs easier. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-08-30[PATCH] x86: Make backtracer fallback logic more bullet-proofJan Beulich
The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once serving as a separator) of this. Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but this could certainly be further improved. Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-14[PATCH] Change panic_on_oops message to "Fatal exception"Horms
Previously the message was "Fatal exception: panic_on_oops", as introduced in a recent patch whith removed a somewhat dangerous call to ssleep() in the panic_on_oops path. However, Paul Mackerras suggested that this was somewhat confusing, leadind people to believe that it was panic_on_oops that was the root cause of the fatal exception. On his suggestion, this patch changes the message to simply "Fatal exception". A suitable oops message should already have been displayed. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-31[PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep()Horms
This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour across all architectures that implement it. It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured in interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause a panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at all. This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message accordinly. I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is too long, feedback welcome. For powerpc it also unifies the 32bit and 64bit behaviour. Fror x86_64, this patch only updates the console message, as ssleep() is already not present. Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-29[PATCH] i386: Fix up backtrace fallback patchAndi Kleen
I didn't test all compilation combinations. Shame on me. And fix a missing option in the boot option following x86-64 (Jan Beulich) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-28[PATCH] i386: Do backtrace fallback tooAndi Kleen
Similar patch to earlier x86-64 patch. When the dwarf2 unwinder fails dump the left over stack with the old unwinder. Also some clarifications in the headers. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14[PATCH] i386: handle_BUG(): don't print garbage if debug info unavailableChuck Ebbert
handle_BUG() tries to print file and line number even when they're not available (CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is not set.) Change this to print a message stating info is unavailable instead of printing a misleading message. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10[PATCH] put a comment at register_die_notifier that the export is usedArjan van de Ven
{un}register_die_notifier() is used by kdb... document this so that future "remove dead export" rounds can skip this export. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: i386 remove multi entry backtracesIngo Molnar
Remove CONFIG_STACK_BACKTRACE_COLS. This feature didnt work out: instead of making kernel debugging more efficient, it produces much harder to read stacktraces! Check out this trace for example: http://static.flickr.com/47/158326090_35d0129147_b_d.jpg That backtrace could have been printed much nicer as a one-entry-per-line thing, taking the same amount of screen real-estate. Plus we remove 30 lines of kernel code as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] i386/x86-64: fall back to old-style call trace if no unwindingJan Beulich
If no unwinding is possible at all for a certain exception instance, fall back to the old style call trace instead of not showing any trace at all. Also, allow setting the stack trace mode at the command line. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>