[PATCH 00/14] Improve WARN_ON_ONCE() output by adding the condition string

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 27 2025 - 06:30:40 EST


This series improves the current WARN_ON_ONCE() output from:

WARN_ON_ONCE(idx < 0 && ptr);
...

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/core.c:8511 sched_init+0x20/0x410

to (on all __WARN_FLAGS() using architectures except S390):

WARNING: [idx < 0 && ptr] kernel/sched/core.c:8511 at sched_init+0x20/0x410 CPU#0: swapper/0

(Note the addition of the '[condition string]', and a reorganized CPU/comm/PID trailer.)

... and on S390 and non-__WARN_FLAGS architectures to:

WARNING: kernel/sched/core.c:8511 at sched_init+0x20/0x410 CPU#0: swapper/0

and on non-x86 architectures (the CPU/PID fields in the WARNING line are skipped):

WARNING: kernel/sched/core.c:8511 sched_init+0x20/0x410
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.14.0-01616-g94d7af2844aa #4 PREEMPT(undef)

The motivation behind this series is the SCHED_WARN_ON() primitive that
got removed in this merge window:

f7d2728cc032 ("sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()")

... which produced more informative debug output, as it included the
WARN_ON_ONCE() condition string - at the expense of worse code generation.

This series, based on Linus's latest Git tree, merges the code generation
benefits of modern WARN_ON_ONCE() bug_entry architecture code with the expanded
information content of SCHED_WARN_ON().

The cost is about +100K more .data on a defconfig kernel, and no runtime
code generation impact:

text data bss dec hex filename
29523998 7926322 1389904 38840224 250a7a0 vmlinux.x86.defconfig.before
29523998 8024626 1389904 38938528 25227a0 vmlinue.x86.defconfig.after

The series was build and boot tested on x86, with an expectation for it to
work on other architectures (with limited cross-testing on the affected
architectures).

This tree can also be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip WIP.core/bugs

Thanks,

Ingo

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Ingo Molnar (14):
bugs/core: Extend __WARN_FLAGS() with the 'cond_str' parameter
bugs/core: Pass down the condition string of WARN_ON_ONCE(cond) warnings to __WARN_FLAGS()
bugs/x86: Extend _BUG_FLAGS() with the 'cond_str' parameter
bugs/x86: Augment warnings output by concatenating 'cond_str' with the regular __FILE__ string in _BUG_FLAGS()
bugs/powerpc: Pass in 'cond_str' to BUG_ENTRY()
bugs/powerpc: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in BUG_ENTRY(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/LoongArch: Pass in 'cond_str' to __BUG_ENTRY()
bugs/LoongArch: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __BUG_ENTRY(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/s390: Pass in 'cond_str' to __EMIT_BUG()
bugs/riscv: Pass in 'cond_str' to __BUG_FLAGS()
bugs/riscv: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __BUG_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/parisc: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/sh: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/core: Reorganize fields in the first line of WARNING output, add ->comm[] output

arch/arm64/include/asm/bug.h | 2 +-
arch/loongarch/include/asm/bug.h | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
arch/parisc/include/asm/bug.h | 6 +++---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h | 12 ++++++------
arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h | 10 +++++-----
arch/s390/include/asm/bug.h | 10 +++++-----
arch/sh/include/asm/bug.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h | 14 +++++++-------
include/asm-generic/bug.h | 7 ++++---
kernel/panic.c | 16 +++++++++-------
10 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

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