It is highly desirable to trap into kdb on panic. The debug core will attempt to register as the first in line for the panic notifier.
CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> CC: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]> --- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c index bfdba97..ed42d9e 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c +++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c @@ -754,11 +754,28 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_dbg_op = { }; #endif +static int kgdb_panic_event(struct notifier_block *self, + unsigned long val, + void *data) +{ + if (dbg_kdb_mode) + kdb_printf("PANIC: %s\n", (char *)data); + kgdb_breakpoint(); + return NOTIFY_DONE; +} + +static struct notifier_block kgdb_panic_event_nb = { + .notifier_call = kgdb_panic_event, + .priority = INT_MAX, +}; + static void kgdb_register_callbacks(void) { if (!kgdb_io_module_registered) { kgdb_io_module_registered = 1; kgdb_arch_init(); + atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, + &kgdb_panic_event_nb); #ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ register_sysrq_key('g', &sysrq_dbg_op); #endif @@ -778,6 +795,8 @@ static void kgdb_unregister_callbacks(void) */ if (kgdb_io_module_registered) { kgdb_io_module_registered = 0; + atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&panic_notifier_list, + &kgdb_panic_event_nb); kgdb_arch_exit(); #ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ unregister_sysrq_key('g', &sysrq_dbg_op); -- 1.6.4.rc1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
