sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent
commit d6580a9f15238b87e618310c862231ae3f352d2d ("kexec: sysrq: simplify
sysrq-c handler") changed the behavior of sysrq-c to unconditional
dereference of NULL pointer. So in cases with CONFIG_KEXEC, where
crash_kexec() was directly called from sysrq-c before, now it can be said
that a step of "real oops" was inserted before starting kdump.
However, in contrast to oops via SysRq-c from keyboard which results in
panic due to in_interrupt(), oops via "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" will
not become panic unless panic_on_oops=1. It means that even if dump is
properly configured to be taken on panic, the sysrq-c from proc interface
might not start crashdump while the sysrq-c from keyboard can start
crashdump. This confuses traditional users of kdump, i.e. people who
expect sysrq-c to do common behavior in both of the keyboard and proc
interface.
This patch brings the keyboard and proc interface behavior of sysrq-c in
line, by forcing panic_on_oops=1 before oops in sysrq-c handler.
And some updates in documentation are included, to clarify that there is
no longer dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC, and that now the system can just
crash by sysrq-c if no dump mechanism is configured.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Brayan Arraes <brayan@yack.com.br>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index 0db3585..5d7a02f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
-#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/oom.h>
@@ -124,9 +123,12 @@
static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key, struct tty_struct *tty)
{
char *killer = NULL;
+
+ panic_on_oops = 1; /* force panic */
+ wmb();
*killer = 1;
}
-static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crashdump_op = {
+static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crash_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_crash,
.help_msg = "Crash",
.action_msg = "Trigger a crash",
@@ -401,7 +403,7 @@
*/
NULL, /* a */
&sysrq_reboot_op, /* b */
- &sysrq_crashdump_op, /* c & ibm_emac driver debug */
+ &sysrq_crash_op, /* c & ibm_emac driver debug */
&sysrq_showlocks_op, /* d */
&sysrq_term_op, /* e */
&sysrq_moom_op, /* f */
