From 81c9d43f94870be66146739c6e61df40dc17bb64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feng Tang Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 15:28:20 -0800 Subject: kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl So that we can also runtime chose to print out the needed system info for panic, other than setting the kernel cmdline. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543398842-19295-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 1b8775298cf7..c0527d8a468a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - panic_on_stackoverflow - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi - panic_on_warn +- panic_print - panic_on_rcu_stall - perf_cpu_time_max_percent - perf_event_paranoid @@ -654,6 +655,22 @@ a kernel rebuild when attempting to kdump at the location of a WARN(). ============================================================== +panic_print: + +Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. User can chose +combination of the following bits: + +bit 0: print all tasks info +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 + +So for example to print tasks and memory info on panic, user can: + echo 3 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_print + +============================================================== + panic_on_rcu_stall: When set to 1, calls panic() after RCU stall detection messages. This -- cgit