[PATCH] powerpc: Reduce scariness of interrupt frames in stack traces
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jun 18 18:20:15 EST 2014
On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:53 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Some people see things like "Exception: 501" in stack traces in dmesg
> and assume that means that something has gone badly wrong, when in
> fact "Exception: 501" just means a device interrupt was taken.
> This changes "Exception" to "interrupt" to make it clearer that we
> are just recording the fact of a change in control flow rather than
> some error condition.
Surely this would be preferable:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index 31d0215..aa103dc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ void show_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *stack)
> struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)
> (sp + STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD);
> lr = regs->link;
> - printk("--- Exception: %lx at %pS\n LR = %pS\n",
> + printk("--- ππ·πΉπ»πΌπ·π°π±π: %lx at %pS\n LR = %pS\n",
> regs->trap, (void *)regs->nip, (void *)lr);
> firstframe = 1;
> }
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