[PATCH] pause_on_oops command line option

Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.

If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time.  Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.

The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 3b507bf05d09..bb6e7ddee2fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ extern struct notifier_block *panic_notifier_list;
 extern long (*panic_blink)(long time);
 NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
         __attribute__ ((NORET_AND format (printf, 1, 2)));
+extern void oops_enter(void);
+extern void oops_exit(void);
+extern int oops_may_print(void);
 fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long error_code)
         ATTRIB_NORET;
 NORET_TYPE void complete_and_exit(struct completion *, long)