Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel: panic: display reason at end + pr_emerg

From: Fabian Frederick
Date: Wed Feb 12 2014 - 11:25:44 EST


On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:34:45 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:45:22 +0800 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Currently, booting without initrd specified on 80x25 screen
> > gives a call trace followed by atkbd : Spurious ACK.
> > Original message ("VFS: Unable to mount root fs") is not available.
> > Of course this could happen in other situations...
> >
> > -This patch displays panic reason after call trace which could help
> > lot of people even if it's not the very last line on screen.
>
> Fair enough. Hate it when that happens!
I was sure I was not the only one :)

>
> > -Converting all panic.c printk(KERN_EMERG to pr_emerg(
>
> You missed a couple.
Thanks a lot for addition and patch fix.
What a pleasure to see such professionalism !

>
> --- a/kernel/panic.c~kernel-panicc-display-reason-at-end-pr_emerg-fix
> +++ a/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -275,8 +275,7 @@ unsigned long get_taint(void)
> void add_taint(unsigned flag, enum lockdep_ok lockdep_ok)
> {
> if (lockdep_ok == LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE && __debug_locks_off())
> - printk(KERN_WARNING
> - "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n");
> + pr_warn("Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n");
>
> set_bit(flag, &tainted_mask);
> }
> @@ -381,8 +380,7 @@ late_initcall(init_oops_id);
> void print_oops_end_marker(void)
> {
> init_oops_id();
> - printk(KERN_WARNING "---[ end trace %016llx ]---\n",
> - (unsigned long long)oops_id);
> + pr_warn("---[ end trace %016llx ]---\n", (unsigned long long)oops_id);
> }
>
> /*
> _
>
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