From b2be05273a1744d175bf4b67f6665637bb9ac7a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 19:34:56 +0100 Subject: panic: Allow warnings to set different taint flags WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the kernel and should not set the flag for TAINT_WARN. To allow for this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint number as argument. Architectures that implement warnings using trap instructions instead of calls to warn_slowpath_*() now implement __WARN_TAINT(taint) instead of __WARN(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Helge Deller Tested-by: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- kernel/panic.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/panic.c') diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 13d966b4c14..8b821bce66e 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -365,7 +365,8 @@ struct slowpath_args { va_list args; }; -static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller, struct slowpath_args *args) +static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller, + unsigned taint, struct slowpath_args *args) { const char *board; @@ -381,7 +382,7 @@ static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller, struc print_modules(); dump_stack(); print_oops_end_marker(); - add_taint(TAINT_WARN); + add_taint(taint); } void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...) @@ -390,14 +391,29 @@ void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...) args.fmt = fmt; va_start(args.args, fmt); - warn_slowpath_common(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), &args); + warn_slowpath_common(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), + TAINT_WARN, &args); va_end(args.args); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_fmt); +void warn_slowpath_fmt_taint(const char *file, int line, + unsigned taint, const char *fmt, ...) +{ + struct slowpath_args args; + + args.fmt = fmt; + va_start(args.args, fmt); + warn_slowpath_common(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), + taint, &args); + va_end(args.args); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_fmt_taint); + void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, int line) { - warn_slowpath_common(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), NULL); + warn_slowpath_common(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), + TAINT_WARN, NULL); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_null); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 92946bc72f2e74c3281b7fc12be9704d455fb3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 19:36:42 +0100 Subject: panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI DMAR tables. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 +++ include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + kernel/panic.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/panic.c') diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 069fab3ea4d..6fe9001b926 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. + 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform + firmware (BIOS or similar). + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 7f070746336..7f2f7b34dd0 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ extern enum system_states { #define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE 8 #define TAINT_WARN 9 #define TAINT_CRAP 10 +#define TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND 11 extern void dump_stack(void) __cold; diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 8b821bce66e..dbe13dbb057 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { { TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' ' }, { TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' }, { TAINT_CRAP, 'C', ' ' }, + { TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' ' }, }; /** @@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { * 'A' - ACPI table overridden. * 'W' - Taint on warning. * 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded. + * 'I' - Working around severe firmware bug. * * The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted(). */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2