From: Andrew Morton Display the most-recently-opened sysfs file's name when oopsing. From: Adrian Bunk Build fix From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Modified to make the api call cleaner, and available to all arches if need be. Also added it to x86-64's crash dump message. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 1 + arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 1 + fs/sysfs/file.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/linux/sysfs.h | 6 ++++++ 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c +++ gregkh-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c @@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ void die(const char * str, struct pt_reg #endif if (nl) printk("\n"); + sysfs_printk_last_file(); if (notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err, current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV) != NOTIFY_STOP) { --- gregkh-2.6.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c +++ gregkh-2.6/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ void __kprobes __die(const char * str, s printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC"); #endif printk("\n"); + sysfs_printk_last_file(); notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err, current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV); show_registers(regs); /* Executive summary in case the oops scrolled away */ --- gregkh-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ gregkh-2.6/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ #include #include #include +#include + #include #include @@ -15,6 +17,9 @@ #define to_subsys(k) container_of(k,struct subsystem,kset.kobj) #define to_sattr(a) container_of(a,struct subsys_attribute,attr) +/* used in crash dumps to help with debugging */ +static char last_sysfs_file[PATH_MAX]; + /* * Subsystem file operations. * These operations allow subsystems to have files that can be @@ -329,9 +334,18 @@ static int check_perm(struct inode * ino static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp) { + char *p = d_path(filp->f_dentry, sysfs_mount, last_sysfs_file, + sizeof(last_sysfs_file)); + if (p) + memmove(last_sysfs_file, p, strlen(p) + 1); return check_perm(inode,filp); } +void sysfs_printk_last_file(void) +{ + printk(KERN_EMERG "last sysfs file: %s\n", last_sysfs_file); +} + static int sysfs_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp) { struct kobject * kobj = to_kobj(filp->f_dentry->d_parent); --- gregkh-2.6.orig/include/linux/sysfs.h +++ gregkh-2.6/include/linux/sysfs.h @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ int sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject int sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *, const struct attribute_group *); void sysfs_remove_group(struct kobject *, const struct attribute_group *); void sysfs_notify(struct kobject * k, char *dir, char *attr); +void sysfs_printk_last_file(void); #else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */ @@ -191,6 +192,11 @@ static inline void sysfs_notify(struct k { } +static inline void sysfs_printk_last_file(void) +{ + ; +} + #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */ #endif /* _SYSFS_H_ */