core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics

The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html

(with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has
been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on
crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic()
and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason.

[dwmw2: Fix log_end handling]
Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f089ec5ef32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * linux/include/kmsg_dump.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Net Insight AB
+ *
+ * Author: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_KMSG_DUMP_H
+#define _LINUX_KMSG_DUMP_H
+
+#include <linux/list.h>
+
+enum kmsg_dump_reason {
+        KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
+        KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct kmsg_dumper - kernel crash message dumper structure
+ * @dump:       The callback which gets called on crashes. The buffer is passed
+ *              as two sections, where s1 (length l1) contains the older
+ *              messages and s2 (length l2) contains the newer.
+ * @list:       Entry in the dumper list (private)
+ * @registered: Flag that specifies if this is already registered
+ */
+struct kmsg_dumper {
+        void (*dump)(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, enum kmsg_dump_reason reason,
+                        const char *s1, unsigned long l1,
+                        const char *s2, unsigned long l2);
+        struct list_head list;
+        int registered;
+};
+
+void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason);
+
+int kmsg_dump_register(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper);
+
+int kmsg_dump_unregister(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_KMSG_DUMP_H */