[PATCH v3] Make instruction dumping work in real mode.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Sep 28 04:23:13 EST 2007


On 9/27/07, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Scott Wood wrote:
>
> > On non-book-E-or-4xx, exceptions execute in real mode.  If a fault happens
> > that leads to a register dump, the kernel currently prints XXXXXXXX because
> > it doesn't realize that PC is a physical address.
>
> > This patch checks the state of the IMMU, and if necessary converts PC into a
> > virtual address.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > ---
> > Resent with 40x->44x.
> >
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c |    8 ++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > index 57c589c..6dbde7f 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > @@ -354,6 +354,14 @@ static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >               if (!(i % 8))
> >                       printk("\n");
> >
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_BOOKE) && !defined(CONFIG_44x)
>
>      Doesn't CONFIG_44x select CONFIG_BOOKE? Maybe you meant CONFIG_40x?

Heeheehee!  That was the *last* version of the patch.  :-)

40x *does* have real mode, so CONFIG_40x is not appropriate here.  As
Kumar mentioned, only CONFIG_BOOKE is needed.

Cheers,
g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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