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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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar 2007-07-15 23:40:10 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 99fc06df72
commit 45807a1df9
3 changed files with 48 additions and 0 deletions
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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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.

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kernel/signal.c
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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

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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,