linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386: make BUG() expansion look like instruction

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611081733300.5025@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:41:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: make BUG() expansion look like instruction

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This gets i386's handle_BUG() in sync with x86-64's, namely introducing
> a 'struct bug_frame' and arranging for the code generated by the BUG()
> macro to represent an instruction, so that disassembling code
> containing such constructs doesn't produce garbage anymore. The
> resulting increase of code size is marginal (1 byte per instance).

I thought we were heading towards merging Jeremy's generic-bug-*
(with file and line in another section), in -mm for a while now?

Hugh
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