linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] x86: Make page fault oopses similar

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:35:06 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] x86: Make page fault oopses similar

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 13:29 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:20:46 -0800
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Introduce printk_address to X86_32 in a simplified form for
> > now.  Reformat X86_64 printk_address to avoid two declarations.
> > 
> > Change the printk formats on X86_32 and 64 to be similar.
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced on this; I need to look closer but it appears the 32 bit version 
> doesn't use the "reliable" argument to print a ? in front of the dubious backtrace entries;
> that would be sort of a step backwards; (
> 

Sorry, I should have made it clearer that this was more for discussion
of the actual formatting.

printk_address needs to be ported to X86_32, the one in this patch
is just a placeholder.  Looking at the X86_64 version it looks like
it can be brought straight across, but I haven't tested that yet.

Harvey

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