linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/fault: Further improve #PF oops messages

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Date:   Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:36:55 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/fault: Further improve #PF oops messages

Rework the messages printed for #PF oopses to display more detailed
information about the fault in human readable form and to avoid
conflicting messages and/or statements that may not always be accurate.

v3:
  - Prepend a patch to reword the initial BUG message
  - Add sample output in the changelogs
  - Swap the order of the #PF lines.  For most cases the three main lines
    show up in reverse fir-tree ordering and the cause of the fault is
    easy to pick out since it's the last thing highlighted by pr_alert
    (excepting when dumping the IDT, GDT, etc...).

v2:
  - Explicitly call out protection keys violations
  - "Slightly" reword the changelog

v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181207195223.23968-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181207184423.1962-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com

Sean Christopherson (2):
  x86/fault: Reword initial BUG message for unhandled page faults
  x86/fault: Decode and print #PF oops in human readable form

 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 51 +++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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2.19.2