Re: [patch 18/38] Improved oops output.

Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-27T14:25:56Z

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
>
> This patch adds two improvements to the oops output. First it adds an
> additional line after the PSW which decodes the different fields of it.
> Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding
> the faulting PSW. The output of a test oops now looks like this:

So we're growing in-kernel disassemblers now? :)

I wonder whether this is really worth it, but at least your handwritten
one is much nicer than the copy & paste from gdb in the kdb patches.