[PATCH] powerpc: Nicer printing of address at oops

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Mon Nov 7 09:04:39 EST 2005


Hi,

Please apply.

---

Add nicer printing of faulting address on unresolvable kernel faults.

Makes life a little easier for those who don't know how to decode our
register contents at oops time.


Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>

Index: 2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c	2005-11-06 12:55:22.000000000 -0800
+++ 2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c	2005-11-06 14:02:20.000000000 -0800
@@ -389,5 +389,22 @@ void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs
 	}
 
 	/* kernel has accessed a bad area */
+
+	printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for ");
+	switch (regs->trap) {
+		case 0x300:
+		case 0x380:
+			printk("data at address 0x%016lx\n", regs->dar);
+			break;
+		case 0x400:
+		case 0x480:
+			printk("instruction fetch\n");
+			break;
+		default:
+			printk("unknown fault\n");
+	}
+	printk(KERN_ALERT "Faulting instruction address: 0x%016lx\n",
+		regs->nip);
+
 	die("Kernel access of bad area", regs, sig);
 }



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