kernel debug: support resetting WARN*_ONCE
I like _ONCE warnings because it's guaranteed that they don't flood the
log.
During testing I find it useful to reset the state of the once warnings,
so that I can rerun tests and see if they trigger again, or can
guarantee that a test run always hits the same warnings.
This patch adds a debugfs interface to reset all the _ONCE warnings so
that they appear again:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once
This is implemented by putting all the warning booleans into a special
section, and clearing it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017221455.6740-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b1f5d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE only print a warning once.
+
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once
+
+clears the state and allows the warnings to print once again.
+This can be useful after test suite runs to reproduce problems.