There have been several times where I have had to rebuild a kernel to
cause a panic when hitting a WARN() in the code in order to get a crash
dump from a system. Sometimes this is easy to do, other times (such as
in the case of a remote admin) it is not trivial to send new images to
the user.
A much easier method would be a switch to change the WARN() over to a
panic. This makes debugging easier in that I can now test the actual
image the WARN() was seen on and I do not have to engage in remote
debugging.
This patch adds a panic_on_warn kernel parameter and
/proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn calls panic() in the
warn_slowpath_common() path. The function will still print out the
location of the warning.
An example of the panic_on_warn output:
The first line below is from the WARN_ON() to output the WARN_ON()'s
location. After that the panic() output is displayed.
WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 11698 at /home/prarit/dummy_module/dummy-module.c:25 init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module]()
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 30 PID: 11698 Comm: insmod Tainted: G W OE 3.17.0+ #57
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013
0000000000000000 000000008e3f87df ffff88080f093c38 ffffffff81665190
0000000000000000 ffffffff818aea3d ffff88080f093cb8 ffffffff8165e2ec
ffffffff00000008 ffff88080f093cc8 ffff88080f093c68 000000008e3f87df
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81665190>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[<ffffffff8165e2ec>] panic+0xd0/0x204
[<ffffffffa038e05f>] ? init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module]
[<ffffffff81076b90>] warn_slowpath_common+0xd0/0xd0
[<ffffffffa038e040>] ? dummy_greetings+0x40/0x40 [dummy_module]
[<ffffffff81076c8a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffffa038e05f>] init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module]
[<ffffffff81002144>] do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x210
[<ffffffff811b52c2>] ? __vunmap+0xc2/0x110
[<ffffffff810f8889>] load_module+0x16a9/0x1b30
[<ffffffff810f3d30>] ? store_uevent+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff810f49b9>] ? copy_module_from_fd.isra.44+0x129/0x180
[<ffffffff810f8ec6>] SyS_finit_module+0xa6/0xd0
[<ffffffff8166cf29>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
Successfully tested by me.
hpa said: There is another very valid use for this: many operators would
rather a machine shuts down than being potentially compromised either
functionally or security-wise.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add arm specific parts to kdump kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Hu Keping <hukeping@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual stuff from trivial tree"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
treewide: relase -> release
Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
treewide: Fix typo in printk
doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
...
We have already had the relocatable kernel, so just remove
the TODO in the kdump document.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
In efi_init() memory aligns in IA64_GRANULE_SIZE(16M). If set "crashkernel=1024M-:600M"
and use sparse memory model, when crash kernel booting it changes [128M-728M] to [128M-720M].
But initrd memory is in [709M-727M], and virt_addr_valid() *can not* check the invalid pages
when freeing initrd memory, because there are some pages missed at the end of the section,
and this causes error.
...
Unpacking initramfs...
Freeing initrd memory: 19648kB freed
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:02d00
page:e0000000102dd800 flags:(null) count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:(null) index:0
Call Trace:
[<a000000100018dc0>] show_stack+0x80/0xa0
sp=e000000021e8fbd0 bsp=e000000021e81360
[<a00000010090fcc0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x50
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e81348
[<a0000001001a3180>] bad_page+0x280/0x380
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e81308
[<a0000001001a8740>] free_hot_cold_page+0x3a0/0x5c0
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e812a0
[<a0000001001a8a50>] free_hot_page+0x30/0x60
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e81280
[<a0000001001a8b30>] __free_pages+0xb0/0xe0
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e81258
[<a0000001001a8c00>] free_pages+0xa0/0xc0
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e81230
[<a000000100bb40c0>] free_initrd_mem+0x230/0x290
sp=e000000021e8fda0 bsp=e000000021e811d8
[<a000000100ba6620>] populate_rootfs+0x1c0/0x280
sp=e000000021e8fdb0 bsp=e000000021e811a0
[<a00000010000ac30>] do_one_initcall+0x3b0/0x3e0
sp=e000000021e8fdb0 bsp=e000000021e81158
[<a000000100ba0a90>] kernel_init+0x3f0/0x4b0
sp=e000000021e8fdb0 bsp=e000000021e81108
[<a000000100016890>] kernel_thread_helper+0xd0/0x100
sp=e000000021e8fe30 bsp=e000000021e810e0
[<a00000010000a4c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40
sp=e000000021e8fe30 bsp=e000000021e810e0
...
In "http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=136147092429314&w=2" Tony said:
"Perhaps in Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt (which the crashkernel entry
in kernel-parameters.txt points at). The ia64 section of kdump.txt
notes that the start address will be rounded up to a GRANULE boundary,
but doesn't talk about restrictions on the size."
This patch add size restriction to the documentation of kdump.
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The referenced html file does not exist anymore. Replace the URL with
the current project homepage.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add s390x specific parts to kdump kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This adds relocatable kernel support for kdump. With this one can
use the same regular kernel to capture the kdump. A signature (0xfeed1234)
is passed in r6 from panic code to the next kernel through kexec_sequence
and purgatory code. The signature is used to differentiate between
kdump kernel and non-kdump kernels.
The purgatory code compares the signature and sets the __kdump_flag in
head_64.S. During the boot up, kernel code checks __kdump_flag and if it
is set, the kernel will behave as relocatable kdump kernel. This kernel
will boot at the address where it was loaded by kexec-tools ie. at the
address reserved through crashkernel boot parameter.
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depends on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option to build kdump
kernel as relocatable. So the same kernel can be used as production and
kdump kernel.
This patch incorporates the changes suggested by Paul Mackerras to avoid
GOT use and to avoid two copies of the code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch fixes a small bug in documentation: x86_64 also has now
the ability to build a relocatable kernel.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges. eg:
crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M. Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.
Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling. Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.
[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This cleans up kdump documentation a bit. Plus I do not think we want
to mention Linux trademark in _every_ file in documentation....
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>
This patch adds the "reset_devices" option (that's used only by one device
driver for now) to the recommended list of command line parameters for kdump.
Meaning (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt):
reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch reflects the
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=commit;h=b9c3648e690ad0dad12389659673206213a09760
change in kexec-tools-testing also now in the kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adapts the Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt file to express the fact
that the x86_64 kernel is now also relocatable. This makes i386 and x86_64
now behave the same, simplifying the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch from Mohan Kumar M to add the ppc64 portions of the kdump
documentation.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/481689/focus=3375
Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation
for kdump. The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic
when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5.
[horms@verge.net.au: put original comment with the latest version of the patch]
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the
latest version. I have done this and this patch updates the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o Kdump documentation update.
- Update details for using relocatable kernel.
- Start using kexec-tools-testing release as it is latest and old
kexec-tools can't load relocatable bzImage file.
- Also add kdump on ia64 specific details.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.
Examples:
"and and" --> "and"
"in in" --> "in"
"the the" --> "the"
"the the" --> "to the"
...
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
In a testament to the utter simplicity and logic of the English
language ;-), I found a single correct use - in kernel/panic.c - and
10-15 incorrect ones.
Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Add gdb macro which print the kernel ring buffer into kdump docs
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the kdump documentation to reflect the changes due to recent kernel
config option changes for kexec and kdump.
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.
Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
o Specify "irqpoll" command line option which loading second kernel. This
helps in reducing driver initialization failures in second kernel due
to shared interrupts.
o Enabled LAPIC/IOAPIC support for UP kernels in second kernel. This reduces
the chances of devices sharing the irq and hence reduces the chances of
driver initialization failures in second kernel.
o Build a UP capture kernel and disabled SMP support.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch contains the documentation for the kexec based crash dump tool.
Quick kdump-howto
================================================================
1) Download and build kexec-tools.
2) Download and build the latest kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel patchset.
Two kernels need to be built in order to get this feature working.
A) First kernel:
a) Enable "kexec system call" feature:
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
b) Physical load address (use default):
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
c) Enable "sysfs file system support":
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
d) Boot into first kernel with the command line parameter "crashkernel=Y@X":
For example: "crashkernel=64M@16M".
B) Second kernel:
a) Enable "kernel crash dumps" feature:
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
b) Physical load addreess, use same load address as X in "crashkernel"
kernel parameter in d) above, e.g., 16 MB or 0x1000000.
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
3) Boot into the first kernel.
4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:
kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
maxcpus=1 init 1"
5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
written to force the panic, for testing purposes.
6) See Documentation/kdump.txt for how to read the first kernel's
memory image and how to analyze it.
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
