linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump

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Message-ID: <20180127035732.GB26591@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
Date:   Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:57:32 +0800
From:   Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump

On 01/26/18 at 01:17pm, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2018-01-26 15:37:24, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 01/19/18 at 12:47pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > > On 01/18/18 at 01:57pm, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:02:17 -0800
> > > > Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> writes:
> > > > > >  		printk("%sHardware name: %s\n",
> > > > > >  		       log_lvl, dump_stack_arch_desc_str);
> > > > > > +	if (kexec_crash_loaded())
> > > > > > +		printk("%skdump kernel loaded\n", log_lvl);  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Oops/warnings are getting longer and longer, often scrolling away
> > > > > from the screen, and if the kernel crashes backscroll does not work
> > > > > anymore, so precious information is lost.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you merge it with some other line?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just a [KDUMP] or so somewhere should be good enough.
> > > > 
> > > > Or perhaps we should add it as a TAINT. Not all taints are bad.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I also thought about this before but It sounds like not match the
> > > "tainted" meaning with the assumption that it is bad :(
> > > 
> > > Maybe it would be better to do like Andi said, but print a better word
> > > than "KDUMP", eg. "Kdumpable" sounds better.  If this is fine I can
> > > repost the patch.
> > 
> > I have been not available recently, sorry for late about the update,
> > rethinking about this, it is looks good to use "[KDUMP]".  Also for
> > the tainted flags, I tried but it is not what we want since kdump kernel
> > can be unloaded, this is not like "tainted" which can only be added and
> > it can not be removed.
> > 
> > How about below version?
> > ---
> > 
> > It is useful to print kdump kernel loaded status in dump_stack() 
> > especially when panic happens so that we can  differentiate
> > kdump kernel early hang and a normal panic in a bug report.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > [v1 -> v2] merge the status in other line as Andi Kleen suggested
> >  kernel/printk/printk.c |    3 +++
> > --- linux.orig/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > +++ linux/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> >  #include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> >  #include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
> > +#include <linux/kexec.h>
> >  
> >  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> >  #include <asm/sections.h>
> > @@ -3118,9 +3119,11 @@ void __init dump_stack_set_arch_desc(con
> >   */
> >  void dump_stack_print_info(const char *log_lvl)
> >  {
> > -	printk("%sCPU: %d PID: %d Comm: %.20s %s %s %.*s\n",
> > +	printk("%sCPU: %d PID: %d Comm: %.20s %s %s %s %.*s\n",
> >  	       log_lvl, raw_smp_processor_id(), current->pid, current->comm,
> > -	       print_tainted(), init_utsname()->release,
> > +	       print_tainted(),
> > +	       kexec_crash_loaded() ? "[KDUMP]" : "",
> 
> I am afraid that people might be confused what that exactly means.
> For example, if I would wonder if it was already running the crashdump
> kernel.
> 
> And two small nits. It always prints the extra space. It does not fit
> the style of the line.
> 
> What about the following?
> 
> 	printk("%sCPU: %d PID: %d Comm: %.20s %s%s %s %.*s\n",
> 	       log_lvl, raw_smp_processor_id(), current->pid, current->comm,
> 	       kexec_crash_loaded() ? "Kdump: loaded " : "",
> 	       print_tainted(),
> 	       init_utsname()->release,
> 	       (int)strcspn(init_utsname()->version, " "),
> 	       init_utsname()->version);
> 
> It would produce something like:
> 
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.14.0-4-default+ #670

That should be a better version, thanks for catching the extra 
whitespace. Let me do a test and send it out as V2 separately.

> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Petr