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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Generic implemenatation of BUG.
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:53:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45228762.7000005@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061003103740.GB73786@muc.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Because powerpc also records the function name, I added this to i386 and
>> x86-64 for consistency.  Strictly speaking the function name is redundant with
>> kallsyms, so perhaps it can be dropped from powerpc.
>>     
>
> It would be good to change it to use kallsyms() then.
>   

It does, in effect, when it prints the oops message and backtrace.

>>  
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_BUG
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG
>> +struct bug_entry {
>> +	unsigned long	bug_addr;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
>> +	const char	*file;
>> +	unsigned short	line;
>> +#endif
>> +	unsigned short	flags;
>>     
>
> Can't you put the flags into the high bits of the line? I don't think
> we have any 64kLOC files.

I thought about it, but it would still be padded out to 12 bytes on 
i386, and more on 64-bit platforms.  And it doesn't matter that much.


    J

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20061003010842.438670755@goop.org>
     [not found] ` <20061003010933.392428107@goop.org>
2006-10-03  4:23   ` [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  4:33     ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03  5:19       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  5:50         ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03  6:55           ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  7:20             ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03  7:25               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <20061003010930.971200285@goop.org>
2006-10-03 10:37   ` [PATCH 1/6] Generic implemenatation of BUG Andi Kleen
2006-10-03 15:53     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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