Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755148Ab1DOCKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:10:38 -0400 Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:8687 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751956Ab1DOCKh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:10:37 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6316"; a="85719757" Message-ID: <4DA7A914.5020804@codeaurora.org> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:28 -0700 From: Stephen Boyd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Glass CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Russell King , Tony Lindgren , Nicolas Pitre , Catalin Marinas , Joe Perches , Laurent Pinchart , Alexander Shishkin , Phil Carmody , Rabin Vincent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Omar Ramirez Luna , Dave Martin , Simon Glass Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: Use generic BUG() handler References: <1302822031-6752-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> In-Reply-To: <1302822031-6752-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2395 Lines: 60 On 04/14/2011 04:00 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > From: Simon Glass > > ARM uses its own BUG() handler which makes its output slightly different > from other archtectures. > > One of the problems is that the ARM implementation doesn't report the function > with the BUG() in it, but always reports the PC being in __bug(). The generic > implementation doesn't have this problem. > > Currently we get something like: > > kernel BUG at fs/proc/breakme.c:35! > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 > ... > PC is at __bug+0x20/0x2c > > With this patch it displays: > > kernel BUG at fs/proc/breakme.c:35! > Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > ... > PC is at write_breakme+0xd0/0x1b4 > > This implementation uses an undefined instruction to implement BUG, and sets up > a bug table containing the relevant information. Many versions of gcc do not > support %c properly for ARM (inserting a # when they shouldn't) so we work > around this using distasteful macro magic. > > v1: Initial version to replace existing ARM BUG() implementation with something > more similar to other architectures. > > v2: Add Thumb support, remove backtrace whitespace output changes. Change to > use macros instead of requiring the asm %d flag to work (thanks to > Dave Martin ) > > v3: Remove old BUG() implementation in favor of this one. > Remove the Backtrace: message (will submit this separately). > Use ARM_EXIT_KEEP() so that some architectures can dump exit text at link time > thanks to Stephen Boyd (although since we always > define GENERIC_BUG this might be academic.) > Rebase to linux-2.6.git master. > > v4: Allow BUGS in modules (these were not reported correctly in v3) > (thanks to Stephen Boyd for suggesting that.) > Remove __bug() as this is no longer needed. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- 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/