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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Chuck Ebbert" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: show_registers(): try harder to print failing code
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:33:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13471.1153287221@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:12:32 +0200." <9a8748490607181512t11e9970eu1a7aa1ad1644ec54@mail.gmail.com>

"Jesper Juhl" (on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:12:32 +0200) wrote:
>On 18/07/06, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
>> show_registers() tries to dump failing code starting 43 bytes
>> before the offending instruction, but this address can be bad,
>> for example in a device driver where the failing instruction is
>> less than 43 bytes from the start of the driver's code.  When that
>> happens, try to dump code starting at the failing instruction
>> instead of printing no code at all.
>>
>Shouldn't the kernel be printing some info noting that this fallback
>is in use then? Or will that be completely obvious and I'm just not
>able to see that?

The instruction at the EIP is bracketed, which makes it obvious if you
got any preceding instructions or not.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-19  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18 18:22 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-18 22:12 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-19  5:33   ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-07-19  0:25 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-19  8:59 ` Jesper Juhl

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