generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()

The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit. Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(), gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a warning. This will give more debug informations like register contents, etc... In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack() emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which is of no interest in case of a warning. E.g. on s390 the following lines are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets called from report_bug(): [<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8) [<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0 [<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c [<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8 [<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c [<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10 Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
josf · Jul 16, 2007 · 608e261 · 608e261
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diff --git a/arch/avr32/kernel/traps.c b/arch/avr32/kernel/traps.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_illegal_opcode(unsigned long ecr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (!user_mode(regs) && (ecr == ECR_ILLEGAL_OPCODE)) {
 		enum bug_trap_type type;
 
-		type = report_bug(regs->pc);
+		type = report_bug(regs->pc, regs);
 		switch (type) {
 		case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE:
 			break;

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ void die(const char * str, struct pt_regs * regs, long err)
 		unsigned long esp;
 		unsigned short ss;
 
-		report_bug(regs->eip);
+		report_bug(regs->eip, regs);
 
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "%s: %04lx [#%d]\n", str, err & 0xffff, ++die_counter);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static void handle_break(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (unlikely(iir == PARISC_BUG_BREAK_INSN && !user_mode(regs))) {
 		/* check if a BUG() or WARN() trapped here.  */
 		enum bug_trap_type tt;
-		tt = report_bug(regs->iaoq[0] & ~3);
+		tt = report_bug(regs->iaoq[0] & ~3, regs);
 		if (tt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
 			regs->iaoq[0] += 4;
 			regs->iaoq[1] += 4;

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			return;
 
 		if (!(regs->msr & MSR_PR) &&  /* not user-mode */
-		    report_bug(regs->nip) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
+		    report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
 			regs->nip += 4;
 			return;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ void program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			return;
 
 		if (!(regs->msr & MSR_PR) &&  /* not user-mode */
-		    report_bug(regs->nip) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
+		    report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
 			regs->nip += 4;
 			return;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static void __kprobes inline do_trap(long interruption_code, int signr,
 		else {
 			enum bug_trap_type btt;
 
-			btt = report_bug(regs->psw.addr & PSW_ADDR_INSN);
+			btt = report_bug(regs->psw.addr & PSW_ADDR_INSN, regs);
 			if (btt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN)
 				return;
 			die(str, regs, interruption_code);

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/traps.c b/arch/sh/kernel/traps.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
 void handle_BUG(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	enum bug_trap_type tt;
-	tt = report_bug(regs->pc);
+	tt = report_bug(regs->pc, regs);
 	if (tt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
 		regs->pc += 2;
 		return;

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ void die(const char * str, struct pt_regs * regs, long err)
 	unsigned long flags = oops_begin();
 
 	if (!user_mode(regs))
-		report_bug(regs->rip);
+		report_bug(regs->rip, regs);
 
 	__die(str, regs, err);
 	oops_end(flags);

diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ enum bug_trap_type {
 	BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG = 2,
 };
 
+struct pt_regs;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG
 #include <asm-generic/bug.h>
 
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ static inline int is_warning_bug(const struct bug_entry *bug)
 
 const struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigned long bugaddr);
 
-enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr);
+enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr, struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 int  module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *, const Elf_Shdr *,
 			 struct module *);
@@ -31,7 +33,8 @@ int is_valid_bugaddr(unsigned long addr);
 
 #else	/* !CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
 
-static inline enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr)
+static inline enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr,
+					    struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG;
 }

diff --git a/lib/bug.c b/lib/bug.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 extern const struct bug_entry __start___bug_table[], __stop___bug_table[];
 
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ const struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigned long bugaddr)
 	return module_find_bug(bugaddr);
 }
 
-enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr)
+enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	const struct bug_entry *bug;
 	const char *file;
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr)
 			       "[verbose debug info unavailable]\n",
 			       (void *)bugaddr);
 
-		dump_stack();
+		show_regs(regs);
 		return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN;
 	}