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authorChuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>2007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100
commit86c418374223be3f328b5522545196db02c8ceda (patch)
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[PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports
Sometimes developers need to see more object code in an oops report, e.g. when kernel may be corrupted at runtime. Add the "code_bytes" option for this. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/traps.c20
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
index 4ec2103..af0d3f7 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ asmlinkage void spurious_interrupt_bug(void);
asmlinkage void machine_check(void);
int kstack_depth_to_print = 24;
+static unsigned int code_bytes = 64;
ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(i386die_chain);
int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
@@ -325,7 +326,8 @@ void show_registers(struct pt_regs *regs)
*/
if (in_kernel) {
u8 *eip;
- int code_bytes = 64;
+ unsigned int code_prologue = code_bytes * 43 / 64;
+ unsigned int code_len = code_bytes;
unsigned char c;
printk("\n" KERN_EMERG "Stack: ");
@@ -333,14 +335,14 @@ void show_registers(struct pt_regs *regs)
printk(KERN_EMERG "Code: ");
- eip = (u8 *)regs->eip - 43;
+ eip = (u8 *)regs->eip - code_prologue;
if (eip < (u8 *)PAGE_OFFSET ||
probe_kernel_address(eip, c)) {
/* try starting at EIP */
eip = (u8 *)regs->eip;
- code_bytes = 32;
+ code_len = code_len - code_prologue + 1;
}
- for (i = 0; i < code_bytes; i++, eip++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < code_len; i++, eip++) {
if (eip < (u8 *)PAGE_OFFSET ||
probe_kernel_address(eip, c)) {
printk(" Bad EIP value.");
@@ -1192,3 +1194,13 @@ static int __init kstack_setup(char *s)
return 1;
}
__setup("kstack=", kstack_setup);
+
+static int __init code_bytes_setup(char *s)
+{
+ code_bytes = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
+ if (code_bytes > 8192)
+ code_bytes = 8192;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("code_bytes=", code_bytes_setup);