On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:06, David VomLehn wrote: > This patch makes panic() and die() registers available to, for example, > panic notifier functions. Panic notifier functions are quite useful > for recording crash information, but they don't get passed the register > values. This makes it hard to print register contents, do stack > backtraces, etc. The changes in this patch save the register state when > panic() is called and introduce a function for die() to call that allows > it to pass in the registers it was passed. > > Following this patch are more patches, one per architecture. These include > two types of changes: > o A save_ptregs() function for the processor. I've taken a whack at > doing this for all of the processors. I have tested x86 and MIPS > versions. I was able to find cross compilers for ARM, ... and the > code compiles cleanly. Everything else, well, what you see is sheer > fantasy. You are welcome to chortle with merriment. could you post a sample module that you're using to test with here ? presumably you have some simple code that registers a notify handler and then calls panic_with_regs() ... -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
