linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
To: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>,
	Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] powerpc/traps: Use REG_FMT in show_signal_msg()
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:30:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180730183047.Horde.g9hQ_3EXmF6St0upNs2DDw1@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180730152838.GA23704@kermit-br-ibm-com>

Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com> a écrit :

> Hi, Christophe.
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 06:40:23PM +0200, LEROY Christophe wrote:
>> Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > Simplify the message format by using REG_FMT as the register format.  This
>> > avoids having two different formats and avoids checking for MSR_64BIT.
>>
>> Are you sure it is what we want ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Won't it change the behaviour for a 32 bits app running on a 64bits kernel ?
>
> In fact, this changes how many zeroes are prefixed when displaying  
> the registers
> (%016lx vs. %08lx format).  For example, 32-bits userspace, 64-bits kernel:

Indeed that's what I suspected. What is the real benefit of this  
change ? Why not keep the current format for 32bits userspace ? All  
those leading zeroes are pointless to me.

>
> before this series:
>   [66475.002900] segv[4599]: unhandled signal 11 at 00000000 nip  
> 10000420 lr 0fe61854 code 1
>
> after this series:
>   [   73.414535] segv[3759]: segfault (11) at 0000000000000000 nip  
> 0000000010000420 lr 000000000fe61854 code 1 in segv[10000000+10000]
>   [   73.414641] segv[3759]: code: 4e800421 80010014 38210010  
> 7c0803a6 4bffff30 9421ffd0 93e1002c 7c3f0b78
>   [   73.414665] segv[3759]: code: 39200000 913f001c 813f001c  
> 39400001 <91490000> 39200000 7d234b78 397f0030
>
> Have you spotted any other behaviour change?

Not as of today

Christophe

>
> Cheers
> Murilo



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-30 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-27 14:58 [PATCH v2 00/10] powerpc: Modernize unhandled signals message Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] powerpc/traps: Print unhandled signals in a separate function Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] powerpc/traps: Return early in show_signal_msg() Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] powerpc/reg: Add REG_FMT definition Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] powerpc/traps: Use REG_FMT in show_signal_msg() Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 16:40   ` LEROY Christophe
2018-07-27 17:18     ` Joe Perches
2018-07-30 15:28     ` Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-30 16:30       ` LEROY Christophe [this message]
2018-07-30 23:17         ` Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-31  9:32           ` Michael Ellerman
2018-07-31  9:52             ` Alastair D'Silva
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] powerpc/traps: Print VMA for unhandled signals Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] powerpc/traps: Print signal name " Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] powerpc: Do not call __kernel_text_address() in show_instructions() Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] powerpc: Add stacktrace.h header Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] powerpc/traps: Show instructions on exceptions Murilo Opsfelder Araujo
2018-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/traps: Add line prefix in show_instructions() Murilo Opsfelder Araujo

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180730183047.Horde.g9hQ_3EXmF6St0upNs2DDw1@messagerie.si.c-s.fr \
    --to=christophe.leroy@c-s.fr \
    --cc=alastair@d-silva.org \
    --cc=andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com \
    --cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
    --cc=bsingharora@gmail.com \
    --cc=cyrilbur@gmail.com \
    --cc=ebiederm@xmission.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
    --cc=me@tobin.cc \
    --cc=mikey@neuling.org \
    --cc=mpe@ellerman.id.au \
    --cc=muriloo@linux.ibm.com \
    --cc=npiggin@gmail.com \
    --cc=paulus@samba.org \
    --cc=sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=wei.guo.simon@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).