Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932233AbaDXQSl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:18:41 -0400 Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:41450 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758507AbaDXQSh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:18:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:18:04 -0300 From: Ezequiel Garcia To: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Linux-Arch , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , cltang@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] nios2: MMU Fault handling Message-ID: <20140424161804.GG1735@arch.cereza> References: <1397824031-4892-1-git-send-email-lftan@altera.com> <1397824031-4892-6-git-send-email-lftan@altera.com> <20140422143036.GD15745@arch.cereza> <20140424152232.GD1735@arch.cereza> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Apr 25, Ley Foon Tan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Ezequiel Garcia > wrote: > >> > I found that it's useful to add some printing here, just as ARM > >> > does. I carry this patch on my kernel: > >> > > >> > + printk(KERN_INFO "%s: unhandled page fault (%d) at 0x%08lx, cause %ld\n", > >> > + current->comm, SIGSEGV, address, cause); > >> > + show_regs(regs); > >> > > >> > Do you think we could do something like it? Maybe with a compile time option? > >> Yes, this is useful debug message. I can add this. > >> Prefer not to add new compile time option, I think this shouldn't > >> happen frequently. > > > > No, it shouldn't happen frequently. You can take a look at what ARM does. > > They use a DEBUG_USER compile-time option, much more complex than my silly > > proposal. > For now, we can print it always if this shouldn't happen frequently. > Compile time option can be added later if we have more other debug > stuff to print later. > OK, sound sensible. -- Ezequiel Garc?a, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/