Module parameter to enable spl_panic() to panic the kernel

In unattended operations it's often more useful to have node
panic and reboot when it encounters problems as opposed to
sit there indefinitely waiting for somebody to discover it.

This implements an spl_panic_crash module parameter, set it
to nonzero to cause spl_panic() to call panic().

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Closes #634

diff --git a/module/spl/spl-err.c b/module/spl/spl-err.c
index cf9f096b11cb200053a699738471e6680f907993..2f66b6e23cb6fc5d4eecc72e34d97ebb9ab146d3 100644 (file)
--- a/module/spl/spl-err.c
+++ b/module/spl/spl-err.c
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@
 #include <sys/cmn_err.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 
+/*
+ * It is often useful to actually have the panic crash the node so you
+ * can then get notified of the event, get the crashdump for later
+ * analysis and other such goodies.
+ * But we would still default to the current default of not to do that.
+ */
+unsigned int spl_panic_halt;
+module_param(spl_panic_halt, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(spl_panic_halt,
+                "Cause kernel panic on assertion failures");
+
 /*
  * Limit the number of stack traces dumped to not more than 5 every
  * 60 seconds to prevent denial-of-service attacks from debug code.
@@ -62,6 +73,9 @@ spl_panic(const char *file, const char *func, int line, const char *fmt, ...) {
 
        printk(KERN_EMERG "%s", msg);
        printk(KERN_EMERG "PANIC at %s:%d:%s()\n", newfile, line, func);
+       if (spl_panic_halt)
+               panic("%s", msg);
+
        spl_dumpstack();
 
        /* Halt the thread to facilitate further debugging */