Commit 6dab2778 authored by Arjan van de Ven's avatar Arjan van de Ven Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: add a simple backtrace test module

During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful
to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace.
Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful
to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even
detect such bugs earlier..

[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 80b51f31
......@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PM) += power/
obj-$(CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) += acct.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC) += kexec.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST) += backtracetest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT) += compat.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUPS) += cgroup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG) += cgroup_debug.o
......
/*
* Simple stack backtrace regression test module
*
* (C) Copyright 2008 Intel Corporation
* Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
* of the License.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
static struct timer_list backtrace_timer;
static void backtrace_test_timer(unsigned long data)
{
printk("Testing a backtrace from irq context.\n");
printk("The following trace is a kernel self test and not a bug!\n");
dump_stack();
}
static int backtrace_regression_test(void)
{
printk("====[ backtrace testing ]===========\n");
printk("Testing a backtrace from process context.\n");
printk("The following trace is a kernel self test and not a bug!\n");
dump_stack();
init_timer(&backtrace_timer);
backtrace_timer.function = backtrace_test_timer;
mod_timer(&backtrace_timer, jiffies + 10);
msleep(10);
printk("====[ end of backtrace testing ]====\n");
return 0;
}
static void exitf(void)
{
}
module_init(backtrace_regression_test);
module_exit(exitf);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>");
......@@ -506,6 +506,18 @@ config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
Say N if you are unsure.
config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
developers working on architecture code.
Say N if you are unsure.
config LKDTM
tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
......
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