powerpc/kernel: Print actual address of regs when oopsing
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 11 13:25:43 AEDT 2018
On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 02:21:35 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> When we oops or otherwise call show_regs() we print the address of the
> regs structure. Being able to see the address is fairly useful,
> firstly to verify that the regs pointer is not completely bogus, and
> secondly it allows you to dump the regs and surrounding memory with a
> debugger if you have one.
>
> In the normal case the regs will be located somewhere on the stack, so
> printing their location discloses no further information than printing
> the stack pointer does already.
>
> So switch to %px and print the actual address, not the hashed value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc fixes.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/182dc9c7f217146d69d9c0b75c150c
cheers
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