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| author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2007-07-15 23:41:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:51 -0700 |
| commit | 608e2619682e951f525b08e7a48669a3c0263b41 (patch) | |
| tree | 034ec1a626c776da201c6664a0ac8b2ec0934167 /lib | |
| parent | 94bed2a9c4ae980838003f5d32681eef794ecc28 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-608e2619682e951f525b08e7a48669a3c0263b41.tar.gz lwn-608e2619682e951f525b08e7a48669a3c0263b41.zip | |
generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()
The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a
WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit. Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(),
gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the
pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a
warning. This will give more debug informations like register contents,
etc... In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack()
emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which
is of no interest in case of a warning. E.g. on s390 the following lines
are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets
called from report_bug():
[<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8)
[<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0
[<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c
[<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8
[<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c
[<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/bug.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bug.c b/lib/bug.c index 014b582c5c4b..530f38f55787 100644 --- a/lib/bug.c +++ b/lib/bug.c @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/bug.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> extern const struct bug_entry __start___bug_table[], __stop___bug_table[]; @@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ const struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigned long bugaddr) return module_find_bug(bugaddr); } -enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr) +enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs) { const struct bug_entry *bug; const char *file; @@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr) "[verbose debug info unavailable]\n", (void *)bugaddr); - dump_stack(); + show_regs(regs); return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN; } |