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authorFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>2019-01-04 00:28:20 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-01-04 22:13:47 +0100
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parentpanic: add options to print system info when panic happens (diff)
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kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
So that we can also runtime chose to print out the needed system info for panic, other than setting the kernel cmdline. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543398842-19295-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 1b8775298cf7..c0527d8a468a 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- panic_on_stackoverflow
- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
- panic_on_warn
+- panic_print
- panic_on_rcu_stall
- perf_cpu_time_max_percent
- perf_event_paranoid
@@ -654,6 +655,22 @@ a kernel rebuild when attempting to kdump at the location of a WARN().
==============================================================
+panic_print:
+
+Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. User can chose
+combination of the following bits:
+
+bit 0: print all tasks info
+bit 1: print system memory info
+bit 2: print timer info
+bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
+bit 4: print ftrace buffer
+
+So for example to print tasks and memory info on panic, user can:
+ echo 3 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_print
+
+==============================================================
+
panic_on_rcu_stall:
When set to 1, calls panic() after RCU stall detection messages. This