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powerpc: Add plain English description for alignment exception oopses

Message ID 1435812980-16360-1-git-send-email-anton@samba.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Michael Ellerman
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Anton Blanchard July 2, 2015, 4:56 a.m. UTC
If we take an alignment exception which we cannot fix, the oops
currently prints:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for unknown fault

Lets print something more useful:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for unaligned access at address 0xc0000000f77bba8f

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Michael Ellerman July 7, 2015, 10:38 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2015-02-07 at 04:56:20 UTC, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> If we take an alignment exception which we cannot fix, the oops
> currently prints:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for unknown fault
> 
> Lets print something more useful:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for unaligned access at address 0xc0000000f77bba8f
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=eab861a7a52208868637f47a92caa926ddadd9c7

cheers
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index b396868..661ba0a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -528,6 +528,10 @@  void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, int sig)
 		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
 			"instruction fetch\n");
 		break;
+	case 0x600:
+		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
+			"unaligned access at address 0x%08lx\n", regs->dar);
+		break;
 	default:
 		printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
 			"unknown fault\n");