[PATCH] powerpc: Print instruction when logging unhandled exceptions

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Thu Sep 25 15:05:45 EST 2014


It is often useful to see the instruction that caused an unhandled
exception.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 0dc43f9..27e30c8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <asm/emulated_ops.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/machdep.h>
 #include <asm/rtas.h>
@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ void _exception(int signr, struct pt_regs *regs, int code, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	siginfo_t info;
 	const char fmt32[] = KERN_INFO "%s[%d]: unhandled signal %d " \
-			"at %08lx nip %08lx lr %08lx code %x\n";
+			"at %08lx nip %08lx lr %08lx code %x insn %08x\n";
 	const char fmt64[] = KERN_INFO "%s[%d]: unhandled signal %d " \
-			"at %016lx nip %016lx lr %016lx code %x\n";
+			"at %016lx nip %016lx lr %016lx code %x insn %08x\n";
 
 	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
 		die("Exception in kernel mode", regs, signr);
@@ -252,9 +252,18 @@ void _exception(int signr, struct pt_regs *regs, int code, unsigned long addr)
 	}
 
 	if (show_unhandled_signals && unhandled_signal(current, signr)) {
+		u32 __user *nia = (u32 __user *)regs->nip;
+		u32 insn = 0;
+
+		pagefault_disable();
+		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, nia, sizeof(*nia)) ||
+		    __get_user_inatomic(insn, nia))
+			insn = 0xffffffffUL;
+		pagefault_enable();
+
 		printk_ratelimited(regs->msr & MSR_64BIT ? fmt64 : fmt32,
 				   current->comm, current->pid, signr,
-				   addr, regs->nip, regs->link, code);
+				   addr, regs->nip, regs->link, code, insn);
 	}
 
 	if (arch_irqs_disabled() && !arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs))
-- 
1.9.1



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