[PATCH v2] powerpc/book3s/mm: Update Oops message to print the correct translation in use

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Nov 14 20:07:40 AEDT 2019


On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:58:14 UTC, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote:
> Avoids confusion when printing Oops message like below
> 
>  Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000008bdb4
>  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
> 
> This was because we never clear the MMU_FTR_HPTE_TABLE feature flag
> even if we run with radix translation. It was discussed that we should
> look at this feature flag as an indication of the capability to run
> hash translation and we should not clear the flag even if we run in
> radix translation. All the code paths check for radix_enabled() check and
> if found true consider we are running with radix translation. Follow the
> same sequence for finding the MMU translation string to be used in Oops
> message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/d7e02f7b7991dbe14a2acfb0e53d675cd149001c

cheers


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