Messages in this thread |  | | | From | John Bradford <> | | Subject | Re: what's an OOPS | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:54:46 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > The number of the oops, (I.E. whether it was the first, second, third, > > etc, starting with 0000). > > Urban myth (at least on i386). The "Oops:" part can be decoded on i386 as, > > * bit 0 == 0 means no page found, 1 means protection fault > * bit 1 == 0 means read, 1 means write > * bit 2 == 0 means kernel, 1 means user-mode
Interesting - I wasn't aware of that.
Maybe we should note this in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt?
Infact, overall there must be quite a lot that isn't documented at all, except in this mailing list's archives - I think an overhaul of Documentation/* is more than slightly overdue... John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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