From cab8bd3410d448279e3bd0fbf96d31db0bf770fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:04:14 -0700 Subject: sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent commit d6580a9f15238b87e618310c862231ae3f352d2d ("kexec: sysrq: simplify sysrq-c handler") changed the behavior of sysrq-c to unconditional dereference of NULL pointer. So in cases with CONFIG_KEXEC, where crash_kexec() was directly called from sysrq-c before, now it can be said that a step of "real oops" was inserted before starting kdump. However, in contrast to oops via SysRq-c from keyboard which results in panic due to in_interrupt(), oops via "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" will not become panic unless panic_on_oops=1. It means that even if dump is properly configured to be taken on panic, the sysrq-c from proc interface might not start crashdump while the sysrq-c from keyboard can start crashdump. This confuses traditional users of kdump, i.e. people who expect sysrq-c to do common behavior in both of the keyboard and proc interface. This patch brings the keyboard and proc interface behavior of sysrq-c in line, by forcing panic_on_oops=1 before oops in sysrq-c handler. And some updates in documentation are included, to clarify that there is no longer dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC, and that now the system can just crash by sysrq-c if no dump mechanism is configured. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Ken'ichi Ohmichi Acked-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Brayan Arraes Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/sysrq.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c index 0db35857e4d8..5d7a02f63e1c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c +++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include @@ -124,9 +123,12 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_unraw_op = { static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key, struct tty_struct *tty) { char *killer = NULL; + + panic_on_oops = 1; /* force panic */ + wmb(); *killer = 1; } -static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crashdump_op = { +static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crash_op = { .handler = sysrq_handle_crash, .help_msg = "Crash", .action_msg = "Trigger a crash", @@ -401,7 +403,7 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op *sysrq_key_table[36] = { */ NULL, /* a */ &sysrq_reboot_op, /* b */ - &sysrq_crashdump_op, /* c & ibm_emac driver debug */ + &sysrq_crash_op, /* c & ibm_emac driver debug */ &sysrq_showlocks_op, /* d */ &sysrq_term_op, /* e */ &sysrq_moom_op, /* f */ -- cgit v1.2.3