[PATCH 47/50] kdb: Don't play with console_loglevel

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Tue Nov 05 2019 - 22:09:10 EST


Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more
messages printed than wanted. Also the stack trace might be not printed
at all if printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back
before the trace got flushed.

Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
index 7e2379aa0a1e..5ce1fe082a38 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
@@ -21,22 +21,19 @@

static void kdb_show_stack(struct task_struct *p, void *addr)
{
- int old_lvl = console_loglevel;
- console_loglevel = CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_MOTORMOUTH;
kdb_trap_printk++;
kdb_set_current_task(p);
if (addr) {
- show_stack((struct task_struct *)p, addr);
+ show_stack_loglvl(p, addr, KERN_EMERG);
} else if (kdb_current_regs) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
- show_stack(p, &kdb_current_regs->sp);
+ show_stack_loglvl(p, &kdb_current_regs->sp, KERN_EMERG);
#else
- show_stack(p, NULL);
+ show_stack_loglvl(p, NULL, KERN_EMERG);
#endif
} else {
- show_stack(p, NULL);
+ show_stack_loglvl(p, NULL, KERN_EMERG);
}
- console_loglevel = old_lvl;
kdb_trap_printk--;
}

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2.23.0