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Feng Tang 261743b013 panic: clean up code for console replay
Patch series "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts", v3.

When working on kernel stability issues, panic, task-hung and
software/hardware lockup are frequently met.  And to debug them, user may
need lots of system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock
info, memory info etc.  

panic case already has panic_print_sys_info() for this purpose, and has a
'panic_print' bitmask to control what kinds of information is needed,
which is also helpful to debug other task-hung and lockup cases.

So this patchset extracts the function out to a new file 'lib/sys_info.c',
and makes it available for other cases which also need to dump system info
for debugging.  

Also as suggested by Petr Mladek, add 'panic_sys_info=' interface to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,locks,timers,ftrace,....", and
eventually obsolete the current 'panic_print' bitmap interface.

In RFC and V1 version, hung_task and SW/HW watchdog modules are enabled
with the new sys_info dump interface.  In v2, they are kept out for better
review of current change, and will be posted later.  

Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and
was proven helpful.

Many thanks to Petr Mladek for great suggestions on both the code and
architectures!


This patch (of 5):

Currently the panic_print_sys_info() was called twice with different
parameters to handle console replay case, which is kind of confusing.

Add panic_console_replay() explicitly and rename
'PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG' to 'PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY', to make the code
straightforward.  The related kernel document is also updated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch x86: implement crashkernel cma reservation 2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
block block-6.16-20250626 2025-06-27 09:02:33 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto lib/raid6: replace custom zero page with ZERO_PAGE 2025-07-09 22:57:54 -07:00
Documentation panic: clean up code for console replay 2025-07-19 19:08:24 -07:00
drivers relayfs: abolish prev_padding 2025-07-09 22:57:51 -07:00
fs ocfs2: update d_splice_alias() return code checking 2025-07-09 22:57:57 -07:00
include kdump: implement reserve_crashkernel_cma 2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
init futex: Temporary disable FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 2025-07-01 15:02:05 +02:00
io_uring io_uring-6.16-20250630 2025-06-30 16:32:43 -07:00
ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel panic: clean up code for console replay 2025-07-19 19:08:24 -07:00
lib lib: test_objagg: split test_hints_case() into two functions 2025-07-09 22:57:55 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm vfs-6.16-rc5.fixes 2025-07-04 09:06:49 -07:00
net Including fixes from Bluetooth. 2025-07-03 09:18:55 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.16-rc3 2025-06-18 14:31:16 -07:00
samples - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: check for missing sentinels in ID arrays 2025-07-09 22:57:57 -07:00
security selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-06-19 16:13:16 -04:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix built-in mic on ASUS VivoBook X507UAR 2025-06-26 08:02:44 +02:00
tools selftests: ptrace: add set_syscall_info to .gitignore 2025-07-09 22:57:57 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD 2025-05-28 06:29:17 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Sachin Mokashi's email address 2025-07-09 22:57:56 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS CREDITS: Add entry for Shannon Nelson 2025-06-21 07:34:28 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add lib/raid6/ to "SOFTWARE RAID" 2025-07-09 22:57:55 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.16-rc5 2025-07-06 14:10:26 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.