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-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c11
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index f861bedc1925..32b1c1c93b7a 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
panic_print_sys_info(false);
- kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
+ kmsg_dump_desc(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC, buf);
/*
* If you doubt kdump always works fine in any situation,
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 054c0e7784fd..041a0f76688d 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -4184,16 +4184,21 @@ const char *kmsg_dump_reason_str(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmsg_dump_reason_str);
/**
- * kmsg_dump - dump kernel log to kernel message dumpers.
+ * kmsg_dump_desc - dump kernel log to kernel message dumpers.
* @reason: the reason (oops, panic etc) for dumping
+ * @desc: a short string to describe what caused the panic or oops. Can be NULL
+ * if no additional description is available.
*
* Call each of the registered dumper's dump() callback, which can
* retrieve the kmsg records with kmsg_dump_get_line() or
* kmsg_dump_get_buffer().
*/
-void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
+void kmsg_dump_desc(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason, const char *desc)
{
struct kmsg_dumper *dumper;
+ struct kmsg_dump_detail detail = {
+ .reason = reason,
+ .description = desc};
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(dumper, &dump_list, list) {
@@ -4211,7 +4216,7 @@ void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
continue;
/* invoke dumper which will iterate over records */
- dumper->dump(dumper, reason);
+ dumper->dump(dumper, &detail);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
}