On 02/07/2024 22:29, Kees Cook wrote:
On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 02:26:04PM +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
kmsg_dump doesn't forward the panic reason string to the kmsg_dumper
callback.
This patch adds a new struct kmsg_dump_detail, that will hold the
reason and description, and pass it to the dump() callback.
Thanks! I like this much better. :)
To avoid updating all kmsg_dump() call, it adds a kmsg_dump_desc()
function and a macro for backward compatibility.
I've written this for drm_panic, but it can be useful for other
kmsg_dumper.
It allows to see the panic reason, like "sysrq triggered crash"
or "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on xxxx" on the drm panic screen.
v2:
* Use a struct kmsg_dump_detail to hold the reason and description
pointer, for more flexibility if we want to add other parameters.
(Kees Cook)
* Fix powerpc/nvram_64 build, as I didn't update the forward
declaration of oops_to_nvram()
The versioning history commonly goes after the "---".
ok, I was not aware of this.
[...]
diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
index 906521c2329c..65f5a47727bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ struct kmsg_dump_iter {
u64 next_seq;
};
+/**
+ *struct kmsg_dump_detail - kernel crash detail
Is kern-doc happy with this? I think there is supposed to be a space
between the "*" and the first word:
/**
* struct kmsg...
Good catch, yes there is a space missing.
I just checked with "make htmldocs", and in fact
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h is not indexed for kernel documentation.
And you can't find the definition of struct kmsg_dumper in the online doc.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/search.html?q=kmsg_dumper
Otherwise looks good to me!
Thanks.
As this patch touches different subsystems, do you know on which tree it
should land ?
--
Jocelyn
