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Commit 45807a1d authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Linus Torvalds
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vdso: print fatal signals 



Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.

This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console.  This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.

Defaults to off.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 99fc06df

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

+6 −0
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@@ -1383,6 +1383,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
			autoconfiguration.

			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).



	print-fatal-signals=

			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals

			print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to

			the kernel console.

			default: off.



	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile

			Format: [schedule,]<number>

			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.

kernel/signal.c

+33 −0
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@@ -718,6 +718,37 @@ out_set: 
#define LEGACY_QUEUE(sigptr, sig) \

	(((sig) < SIGRTMIN) && sigismember(&(sigptr)->signal, (sig)))



int print_fatal_signals;



static void print_fatal_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, int signr)

{

	printk("%s/%d: potentially unexpected fatal signal %d.\n",

		current->comm, current->pid, signr);



#ifdef __i386__

	printk("code at %08lx: ", regs->eip);

	{

		int i;

		for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {

			unsigned char insn;



			__get_user(insn, (unsigned char *)(regs->eip + i));

			printk("%02x ", insn);

		}

	}

#endif

	printk("\n");

	show_regs(regs);

}



static int __init setup_print_fatal_signals(char *str)

{

	get_option (&str, &print_fatal_signals);



	return 1;

}



__setup("print-fatal-signals=", setup_print_fatal_signals);



static int

specific_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t)
@@ -1855,6 +1886,8 @@ relock: 
		 * Anything else is fatal, maybe with a core dump.

		 */

		current->flags |= PF_SIGNALED;

		if ((signr != SIGKILL) && print_fatal_signals)

			print_fatal_signal(regs, signr);

		if (sig_kernel_coredump(signr)) {

			/*

			 * If it was able to dump core, this kills all

kernel/sysctl.c

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@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, 


/* External variables not in a header file. */

extern int C_A_D;

extern int print_fatal_signals;

extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;

extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;

extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
@@ -340,6 +341,14 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = { 
		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,

	},

#endif

	{

		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,

		.procname	= "print-fatal-signals",

		.data		= &print_fatal_signals,

		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),

		.mode		= 0644,

		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,

	},

#ifdef __sparc__

	{

		.ctl_name	= KERN_SPARC_REBOOT,