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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-24 14:14:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-24 14:14:07 -0700
commit52deda9551a01879b3562e7b41748e85c591f14c (patch)
treeaacbed0ff40a64529c8d384a0c87b2c3aea4bf2b /Documentation
parent169e77764adc041b1dacba84ea90516a895d43b2 (diff)
parentb027471adaf955efde6153d67f391fe1604b7292 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "Various misc subsystems, before getting into the post-linux-next material. 41 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: procfs, misc, core-kernel, lib, checkpatch, init, pipe, minix, fat, cgroups, kexec, kdump, taskstats, panic, kcov, resource, and ubsan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (41 commits) Revert "ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang" kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again kcov: properly handle subsequent mmap calls kcov: split ioctl handling into locked and unlocked parts panic: move panic_print before kmsg dumpers panic: add option to dump all CPUs backtraces in panic_print docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print taskstats: remove unneeded dead assignment kasan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in end_report() ubsan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in ubsan_epilogue() panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic() docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support arm64: mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef x86/setup: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef riscv: mm: init: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef kexec: make crashk_res, crashk_low_res and crash_notes symbols always visible cgroup: use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(). fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user() minix: fix bug when opening a file with O_DIRECT ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst2
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
index cb30ca3df27c..a748e7eb4429 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ System kernel config options
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
Note that "sysfs file system support" might not appear in the "Pseudo
- filesystems" menu if "Configure standard kernel features (for small
- systems)" is not enabled in "General Setup." In this case, check the
- .config file itself to ensure that sysfs is turned on, as follows::
+ filesystems" menu if "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
+ is not enabled in "General Setup." In this case, check the .config file
+ itself to ensure that sysfs is turned on, as follows::
grep 'CONFIG_SYSFS' .config
@@ -533,6 +533,10 @@ the following command::
cp /proc/vmcore <dump-file>
+or use scp to write out the dump file between hosts on a network, e.g::
+
+ scp /proc/vmcore remote_username@remote_ip:<dump-file>
+
You can also use makedumpfile utility to write out the dump file
with specified options to filter out unwanted contents, e.g::
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9927564db88e..b7ccaa2ea867 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3792,6 +3792,11 @@
bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
bit 4: print ftrace buffer
bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
+ bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
+ *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
+ so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
+ Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
+ bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 803c60bf21d3..1144ea3229a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ bit 1 print system memory info
bit 2 print timer info
bit 3 print locks info if ``CONFIG_LOCKDEP`` is on
bit 4 print ftrace buffer
+bit 5 print all printk messages in buffer
+bit 6 print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
===== ============================================
So for example to print tasks and memory info on panic, user can::
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index 02102be7ff49..dc791c8d84d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -100,3 +100,5 @@ have already built it.
The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.
+
+Note that sparse defines the __CHECKER__ preprocessor symbol.