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Commit e4f67422 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: pass VM_BUG_ON() reason to dump_page()



I recently added a patch to let folks pass a "reason" string dump_page()
which gets dumped out along with the page's data.  This essentially
saves the bug-reader a trip in to the source to figure out why we
BUG_ON()'d.

The new VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() passes in NULL for "reason".  It seems like we
might as well pass the BUG_ON() condition if we have it.  This will
bloat kernels a bit with ~160 new strings, but this is all under a
debugging option anyway.

	page:ffffea0008560280 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:(null) index:0x0
	page flags: 0xbfffc0000000001(locked)
	page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLocked(page))
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at /home/davehans/linux.git/mm/filemap.c:464!
	invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
	CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.0+ #251
	Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
	...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include stringify.h]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3dae7fec
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