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

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:25:06 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 18/38] Improved oops output.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...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.
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