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From: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Document ARM's user_debug parameter
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:57:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110726085721.GB2075@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110725142924.85de25dd.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:29:24PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:15:14 -0700 Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
> > but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
> > option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Is this a superset of 'print_fatal_signals'?
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |   10 ++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index aa47be7..8186adc 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -2612,6 +2612,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
> >  					medium is write-protected).
> >  			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
> >  
> > +	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
> > +			Format: <int>
> > +			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
> > +				 1 - undefined instruction events
> > +				 2 - system calls

linux$ git grep UDBG_SYSCALL -- arch/arm/
include/asm/system.h:#define UDBG_SYSCALL       (1 << 1)
kernel/traps.c: if (user_debug & UDBG_SYSCALL) {
kernel/traps.c: if (user_debug & UDBG_SYSCALL) {

Looking at kernel/traps.c, it looks like only undefined or obsolete
syscalls are logged.  It could be worth clarifying this in the wording,
both here and in arch/arm/Kconfig.debug.

Cheers
---Dave

> > +				 4 - invalid data aborts
> > +				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
> > +				16 - SIGBUS faults
> > +			Example: user_debug=31
> > +
> >  	userpte=
> >  			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
> >  
> > -- 
> > Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
> > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.
> 
> ---
> ~Randy
> *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25  1:15 [PATCH] Documentation: Document ARM's user_debug parameter Stephen Boyd
2011-07-25 21:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-26  8:57   ` Dave Martin [this message]

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