Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:25:06 -0800 | | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | | Subject | Re: Print taint info in more places. | |
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:03:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > > #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_BUG
> > > #define BUG() do { \
> > > - printk("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__); \
> > > + printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()! (%s)\n",
> > > + __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__, print_tainted()); \
> > > panic("BUG!"); \
> > > } while (0)
> > > #endif
> > >...
> >
> > Note that this only changes a handful of architectures and most likely
> > not the ones you are interested in.
>
> Hmm, it appears that I was mistaken, and we never did patch x86.
> Which leaves me wondering if its worth it or not to patch BUG()
> Anyways, here's the latest rev with the out-of-line changes as
> suggested by Andi.
>
> init/main.c may not be the best place for the ool variant. suggestions?
>
lib/bug.c would be the place for architectures using
CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG. x86 could be converted to use the BUG-trapping
mechanism for WARN_ON like Power does, so it would be inherently out of
line anyway.
J
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