Re: [PATCH] idr: Print a stack dump after ida_remove warning

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 7 May 2013 16:34:22 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 11:32:03 +0200 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We print a dump stack after idr_remove warning. This is useful to find
> > the faulty piece of code. Let's do the same for ida_remove, as it
> > would be equally useful there.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- linux-3.10-rc0.orig/lib/idr.c	2013-05-05 10:17:03.086198024 +0200
> > +++ linux-3.10-rc0/lib/idr.c	2013-05-05 10:41:11.939134735 +0200
> > @@ -1066,6 +1066,7 @@ void ida_remove(struct ida *ida, int id)
> >   err:
> >  	printk(KERN_WARNING
> >  	       "ida_remove called for id=%d which is not allocated.\n", id);
> > +	dump_stack();
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_remove);
> 
> If we're going to do this, we should make that printk a KERN_EMERG or
> something, otherwise users might see a stack dump with no explanation
> why it occurred.
> 
> We can do all that with plain old WARN().  How does this look?

Nice, it reduces even 4 more lines! :)


Takashi

> 
> 
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: idr-print-a-stack-dump-after-ida_remove-warning-fix
> 
> convert the open-coded printk+dump_stack into WARN()
> 
> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  lib/idr.c |    8 ++------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN lib/idr.c~idr-print-a-stack-dump-after-ida_remove-warning-fix lib/idr.c
> --- a/lib/idr.c~idr-print-a-stack-dump-after-ida_remove-warning-fix
> +++ a/lib/idr.c
> @@ -524,9 +524,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(idr_alloc_cyclic);
>  
>  static void idr_remove_warning(int id)
>  {
> -	printk(KERN_WARNING
> -		"idr_remove called for id=%d which is not allocated.\n", id);
> -	dump_stack();
> +	WARN(1, "idr_remove called for id=%d which is not allocated.\n", id);
>  }
>  
>  static void sub_remove(struct idr *idp, int shift, int id)
> @@ -1064,9 +1062,7 @@ void ida_remove(struct ida *ida, int id)
>  	return;
>  
>   err:
> -	printk(KERN_WARNING
> -	       "ida_remove called for id=%d which is not allocated.\n", id);
> -	dump_stack();
> +	WARN(1, "ida_remove called for id=%d which is not allocated.\n", id);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_remove);
>  
> _
> 
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