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author | Daniel Schaeffer <daniel@dschaeffer.localdomain> | 2008-01-30 15:42:41 -0500 |
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committer | Daniel Schaeffer <daniel@dschaeffer.localdomain> | 2008-01-30 15:42:41 -0500 |
commit | 648b932d8cf61f38d08a84e6388036b22766c2df (patch) | |
tree | 3c48859a194482b645b93c1bead3bcc323327fb7 /Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |
parent | 2506ae0663e660d8dc7624fcdae1814c8ee3d10a (diff) | |
parent | bbf25010f1a6b761914430f5fca081ec8c7accd1 (diff) |
Merge branch '2.6.23' into 2.6.22.6-imx27
Conflicts:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Makefile
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-mx3/Kconfig
arch/arm/mach-mx3/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-mx3/mm.c
arch/arm/mach-mx3/mx31ads.c
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
arch/arm/plat-mxc/Kconfig
arch/arm/plat-mxc/Makefile
arch/arm/plat-mxc/irq.c
block/cfq-iosched.c
drivers/ata/ahci.c
drivers/ata/libata-core.c
drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig
drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c
drivers/mmc/card/Kconfig
drivers/mmc/card/queue.c
drivers/mmc/core/Makefile
drivers/mmc/core/bus.c
drivers/mmc/core/core.c
drivers/mmc/core/host.c
drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
drivers/mmc/core/sd.c
drivers/mmc/core/sd_ops.c
drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
drivers/net/fec.c
drivers/net/forcedeth.c
drivers/net/r8169.c
drivers/net/sky2.c
drivers/rtc/Kconfig
drivers/rtc/Makefile
drivers/spi/Kconfig
drivers/spi/Makefile
drivers/usb/gadget/Makefile
drivers/usb/gadget/gadget_chips.h
drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
drivers/video/logo/logo.c
drivers/w1/slaves/Makefile
fs/9p/conv.c
fs/direct-io.c
fs/exec.c
fs/ocfs2/file.c
fs/signalfd.c
fs/sysfs/file.c
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/dma.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/entry-macro.S
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/hardware.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/io.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/irqs.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/memory.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/mx31.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/mxc.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/system.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/timex.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/uncompress.h
include/asm-arm/arch-mxc/vmalloc.h
include/linux/fsl_devices.h
include/linux/ioprio.h
kernel/lockdep_proc.c
kernel/signal.c
mm/hugetlb.c
mm/readahead.c
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
net/bridge/br_device.c
net/core/dev.c
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_icmp.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 7d5b60dea551..7f60dfe642ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ stuff are the values reported by the Oops - you can just cut-and-paste and do a replace of spaces to "\x" - that's what I do, as I'm too lazy to write a program to automate this all). +Alternatively, you can use the shell script in scripts/decodecode. +Its usage is: decodecode < oops.txt + +The hex bytes that follow "Code:" may (in some architectures) have a series +of bytes that precede the current instruction pointer as well as bytes at and +following the current instruction pointer. In some cases, one instruction +byte or word is surrounded by <> or (), as in "<86>" or "(f00d)". These +<> or () markings indicate the current instruction pointer. Example from +i386, split into multiple lines for readability: + +Code: f9 0f 8d f9 00 00 00 8d 42 0c e8 dd 26 11 c7 a1 60 ea 2b f9 8b 50 08 a1 +64 ea 2b f9 8d 34 82 8b 1e 85 db 74 6d 8b 15 60 ea 2b f9 <8b> 43 04 39 42 54 +7e 04 40 89 42 54 8b 43 04 3b 05 00 f6 52 c0 + Finally, if you want to see where the code comes from, you can do cd /usr/src/linux @@ -237,6 +251,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise. + 8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is |