generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:41:39 +0000 (23:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:05:51 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
commit608e2619682e951f525b08e7a48669a3c0263b41
tree034ec1a626c776da201c6664a0ac8b2ec0934167
parent94bed2a9c4ae980838003f5d32681eef794ecc28
generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()

The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a
WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit.  Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(),
gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the
pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a
warning.  This will give more debug informations like register contents,
etc...  In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack()
emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which
is of no interest in case of a warning.  E.g.  on s390 the following lines
are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets
called from report_bug():

 [<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8)
 [<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0
 [<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c
 [<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8
 [<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c
 [<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/avr32/kernel/traps.c
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c
arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
arch/sh/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
include/linux/bug.h
lib/bug.c