[PATCH] powerpc: Add plain English description for alignment exception oopses

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Thu Jul 2 14:56:20 AEST 2015


If we take an alignment exception which we cannot fix, the oops
currently prints:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for unknown fault

Lets print something more useful:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for unaligned access at address 0xc0000000f77bba8f

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

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index b396868..661ba0a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -528,6 +528,10 @@ void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, int sig)
 		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
 			"instruction fetch\n");
 		break;
+	case 0x600:
+		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
+			"unaligned access at address 0x%08lx\n", regs->dar);
+		break;
 	default:
 		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
 			"unknown fault\n");
-- 
2.1.4



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