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

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Message-ID: <463266D3.8080607@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:10:43 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 18/38] Improved oops output.

Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 20:14 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding
>>> the faulting PSW. 
>> Is that really needed? I use a simple wrapper around as/objdump for this
>> and it works great.
>>
>> (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/shell/decodecode) 
> 
> It is not absolutly needed but it is damn convenient. Usually I can
> immediatly see the reason for the oops. And the size is only 8KB which
> is next to nothing.
> 

Yeah, well your instruction set is really simple anyway. :)

I wonder how big the x86 disassembler is...
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