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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2012-04-06 22:41:15 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-10 23:48:51 +0200
commit282029c005e65ffdce3aa9f8220f88a8bbbc4dae (patch)
tree48d488d453def3bd1c408aed1bd4bb4e18115b4c /lib/kobject.c
parentsysfs: handle 'parent deleted before child added' (diff)
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kobject: provide more diagnostic info for kobject_add_internal() failures
1/ convert open-coded KERN_ERR+dump_stack() to WARN(), so that automated tools pick up this warning. 2/ include the 'child' and 'parent' kobject names. This information was useful for tracking down the case where scsi invoked device_del() on a parent object and subsequently invoked device_add() on a child. Now the warning looks like: kobject_add_internal failed for target8:0:16 (error: -2 parent: end_device-8:0:24) Pid: 2942, comm: scsi_scan_8 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-isci+ #2 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125e551>] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3 [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8125e659>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8125e723>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8131124b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [<ffffffff8125e0ef>] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50 [<ffffffff8132f370>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [<ffffffff8132dce3>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 21dee7c19afd..aeefa8bc8b1c 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)
/* be noisy on error issues */
if (error == -EEXIST)
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s with "
- "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "
- "the same name in the same directory.\n",
- __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
+ WARN(1, "%s failed for %s with "
+ "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "
+ "the same name in the same directory.\n",
+ __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
else
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s (%d)\n",
- __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error);
- dump_stack();
+ WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
+ __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
+ parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
} else
kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;