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

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 10:44:36 EST


High latency ping. These still apply as-is.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:36:55PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxx
> v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181207184423.1962-1-sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx
>
> 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
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