[PATCH v4] Make instruction dumping work in real mode.

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 28 08:57:26 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:38 -0500, 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.

IMMU ?

cheers

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