[PATCH] Generic BUG implementation

This patch adds common handling for kernel BUGs, for use by architectures as
they wish.  The code is derived from arch/powerpc.

The advantages of having common BUG handling are:
 - consistent BUG reporting across architectures
 - shared implementation of out-of-line file/line data
 - implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE consistently

This means that in inline impact of BUG is just the illegal instruction
itself, which is an improvement for i386 and x86-64.

A BUG is represented in the instruction stream as an illegal instruction,
which has file/line information associated with it.  This extra information is
stored in the __bug_table section in the ELF file.

When the kernel gets an illegal instruction, it first confirms it might
possibly be from a BUG (ie, in kernel mode, the right illegal instruction).
It then calls report_bug().  This searches __bug_table for a matching
instruction pointer, and if found, prints the corresponding file/line
information.  If report_bug() determines that it wasn't a BUG which caused the
trap, it returns BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE.

Some architectures (powerpc) implement WARN using the same mechanism; if the
illegal instruction was the result of a WARN, then report_bug(Q) returns
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE; otherwise it returns BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG.

lib/bug.c keeps a list of loaded modules which can be searched for __bug_table
entries.  The architecture must call
module_bug_finalize()/module_bug_cleanup() from its corresponding
module_finalize/cleanup functions.

Unsetting CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE will reduce the kernel size by some amount.
At the very least, filename and line information will not be recorded for each
but, but architectures may decide to store no extra information per BUG at
all.

Unfortunately, gcc doesn't have a general way to mark an asm() as noreturn, so
architectures will generally have to include an infinite loop (or similar) in
the BUG code, so that gcc knows execution won't continue beyond that point.
gcc does have a __builtin_trap() operator which may be useful to achieve the
same effect, unfortunately it cannot be used to actually implement the BUG
itself, because there's no way to get the instruction's address for use in
generating the __bug_table entry.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Handle BUG=n, GENERIC_BUG=n to prevent build errors]
[bunk@stusta.de: include/linux/bug.h must always #include <linux/module.h]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42aa0a54b6f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/bug.h
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_BUG_H
+#define _LINUX_BUG_H
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/bug.h>
+
+enum bug_trap_type {
+        BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE = 0,
+        BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN = 1,
+        BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG = 2,
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG
+#include <asm-generic/bug.h>
+
+static inline int is_warning_bug(const struct bug_entry *bug)
+{
+        return bug->flags & BUGFLAG_WARNING;
+}
+
+const struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigned long bugaddr);
+
+enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr);
+
+int  module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *, const Elf_Shdr *,
+                         struct module *);
+void module_bug_cleanup(struct module *);
+
+/* These are defined by the architecture */
+int is_valid_bugaddr(unsigned long addr);
+
+#else   /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
+
+static inline enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr)
+{
+        return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG;
+}
+static inline int  module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
+                                        const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+                                        struct module *mod)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
+static inline void module_bug_cleanup(struct module *mod) {}
+
+#endif  /* CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
+#endif  /* _LINUX_BUG_H */