Re: [patch] Printk kernel version in WARN_ON

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Nov 17 2007 - 19:57:53 EST


On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:42:18 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ok so how about putting the same into dump_stack() instead? (see
> > below) added bonus is that it's now present for all dumps that use
> > dump_stack(), not just WARN_ON() (the format I copied from the exact
> > line used by oopses)
>
> nice! I did things like this in -rt because it really helps to know
> which process does a WARN_ON() or raw dump_stack().
>
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> unless objections we'll put this into the x86 git tree.
>

Should be done for all architectures, methinks.

If so, an appropriate way to do that would be to do
s/dump_stack/arch_dump_stack/ and do a single all-arch implementation of
dump_stack(). (Where we might add new goodies in the future).

Problem is that this will add a new an pointless entry to all the stack
dumps, unless the arch_dump_stack() implementation is smart enough to skip the
innermost frame.

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