On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 15:25 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This patch adds two improvements to the oops output. First it adds an > > additional line after the PSW which decodes the different fields of it. > > Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding > > the faulting PSW. The output of a test oops now looks like this: > > So we're growing in-kernel disassemblers now? :) > > I wonder whether this is really worth it, but at least your handwritten > one is much nicer than the copy & paste from gdb in the kdb patches.
The disassembler uses about 8K of memory and it really helps in debugging. For me it is worth the cost. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
