Re: [PATCH 3/9] arm64: mm: install SError abort handler
From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 13:36:44 EST
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:48:40AM -0700, Doug Berger wrote:
> On 03/24/2017 08:16 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:46:26AM -0700, Doug Berger wrote:
> If you would consider an alternative implementation where we scrap
> the SError handler (i.e. maintain the ugliness in our downstream
> kernel) in favor of a more gentle user mode crash on SError that
> allows the kernel the opportunity to service the interrupt for
> diagnostic purposes I could try to repackage that.
If this is just for diagnostic purposes, I believe you can register a
panic notifier, which can then read from the bus. The panic will occur,
but you'll have the opportunity to log some information to dmesg.
Thanks,
Mark.