Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and
is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen
root filesystems may be in order.
The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps
something like this would be useful in emergencies.
For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if
you forgot that you had that unmounted.
I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort
of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character).
I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well
as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document the interactions between loglevel and the sysrq output. Also
document how to work round it should output be required on the console.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
git is maintaining the last update time much more accuratly than the
internal update time. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: update documentation and help messages
We have a conventional method of explicitly stating the
sysrq action key in a sysrq help message, so change
dump-ftrace-buffer to use that method and add it to
Documentation/sysrq.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
fix documentation of sysrq-q really
Fix documentation of sysrq-q
timer_list: add base address to clock base
timer_list: print cpu number of clockevents device
timer_list: print real timer address
NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()
NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
NOHZ: unify the nohz function calls in irq_enter()
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
hrtimer: reorder struct hrtimer to save 8 bytes on 64bit builds
posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
...
Fix trivial conflicts due to sysrq-q description clahes in
Documentation/sysrq.txt and drivers/char/sysrq.c
I fell into the trap recently that it only dumps hrtimers instead of
all timers. Fix the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I fell into the trap recently that it only dumps hrtimers instead of
all timers. Fix the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
SysRQ-P is not always useful on SMP systems, since it usually ends up showing
the backtrace of a CPU that is doing just fine, instead of the backtrace of
the CPU that is having problems.
This patch adds SysRQ show-all-cpus(L), which shows the backtrace of every
active CPU in the system. It skips idle CPUs because some SMP systems are
just too large and we already know what the backtrace of the idle task looks
like.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document sequence of keypresses that actually works. Yes, this changed
year-or-so ago.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In Documentation/sysrq.txt, the description of 'h' says that any key not
listed *above* will generate help. That's obviously not true since all the
keys listed below 'h' will do what they are described to do, not display help.
So change the text so that it says that any key not listed in the table will
generate help, which is what really happens.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I added the 'Q' to list. A short description in the `Ok, so what can I
use them for'-section, on when or why to use it would be nice!
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change SysRq showBlockedTasks from sysrq-X to sysrq-W and show that in the
Help message.
It was previously done via X, but X is already used for Xmon on ppc & powerpc
platforms and this collision needs to be avoided.
All callers of register_sysrq_key() are now marked in the sysrq op/key table.
I didn't mark 'h' as Help because Help is just printed for any unknown key,
such as '?'.
Added some omitted sysrq key entries in the sysrq.txt file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sysrq SAK is described as being something you should mistake for SAK from
c2 compliant systems - whoops. What's meant is that it should *not* be
mistaken as such.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch for 2.4.x updates the dead email address for 'Mydraal'
and since he no longer wishes to field questions concerning
SysRq or this document removes the statement stating otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches:
- spelling fixes
- remove duplicate includes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a sysrq-trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps. Alt-Sysrq-c
triggers a kexec based crashdump.
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
