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kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:49:42 +0000 (15:49 -0800)
commitb9405487709ef8e2201e02b99f9a35c84004871e
tree20b7f296327cf1fd9349b7c99fdb11be1f4ff750
parentd35ca20bf1bc419e9a7d6ca99557d1a8130f764c
kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default

Since commit 253f682cfb9b ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the
reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets
run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot.

This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only
represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops
before it's been picked up by userspace.  In addition, some pstore
backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in
reboot as a result.

This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also
be changed from userspace).  Without it, the code will only be run on
failure paths rather than on normal paths.  The option can be enabled in
environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a
reboot was cleanly requested or not.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
kernel/printk.c