linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel: count warnings and make count accessible to userspace

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:04:31 +0000
From:   John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@...gle.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: count warnings and make count accessible to userspace

When testing, it's common to consider a warning to be a test failure,
but it's currently awkward to determine which of multiple sequential
tests is responsible for triggering a warning.  Scraping dmesg or
/var/log/messages is somewhat expensive and error-prone.  Setting
panic_on_warn is reliable, but spoils test runs for minor issues.
Looking at the taint bit is also reliable, but only works for a single
warning.

We can track the warning count and expose it as a sysfs file.  Test
infrastructures can snapshot the value before and after a test.  If
the value changes, they can do more expensive things like extracting
logs.

Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@...gle.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index cefd7d82366f..5262c2a0ebf4 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ struct warn_args {
 	va_list args;
 };

+static atomic_t  __maybe_unused warn_counter;
+
 void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,
 	    struct pt_regs *regs, struct warn_args *args)
 {
@@ -612,6 +614,8 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,

 	/* Just a warning, don't kill lockdep. */
 	add_taint(taint, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
+
+	atomic_inc(&warn_counter);
 }

 #ifndef __WARN_FLAGS
@@ -667,6 +671,7 @@ static __init int register_warn_debugfs(void)
 	/* Don't care about failure */
 	debugfs_create_file_unsafe("clear_warn_once", 0200, NULL, NULL,
 				   &clear_warn_once_fops);
+	debugfs_create_atomic_t("warn_count", 0444, NULL, &warn_counter);
 	return 0;
 }

-- 
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