From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757246AbXD0U4l (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:56:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757238AbXD0U4k (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:56:40 -0400 Received: from mtagate5.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.154]:26658 "EHLO mtagate5.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757242AbXD0U4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:56:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 18/38] Improved oops output. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens In-Reply-To: References: <20070427140503.087958775@de.ibm.com> <20070427140516.013904506@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:56:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1177707409.7451.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 20:14 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Martin Schwidefsky writes: > > > Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding > > the faulting PSW. > > Is that really needed? I use a simple wrapper around as/objdump for this > and it works great. > > (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/shell/decodecode) It is not absolutly needed but it is damn convenient. Usually I can immediatly see the reason for the oops. And the size is only 8KB which is next to nothing. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.