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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 7d5b60dea55..7f60dfe642c 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ stuff are the values reported by the Oops - you can just cut-and-paste and do a replace of spaces to "\x" - that's what I do, as I'm too lazy to write a program to automate this all). +Alternatively, you can use the shell script in scripts/decodecode. +Its usage is: decodecode < oops.txt + +The hex bytes that follow "Code:" may (in some architectures) have a series +of bytes that precede the current instruction pointer as well as bytes at and +following the current instruction pointer. In some cases, one instruction +byte or word is surrounded by <> or (), as in "<86>" or "(f00d)". These +<> or () markings indicate the current instruction pointer. Example from +i386, split into multiple lines for readability: + +Code: f9 0f 8d f9 00 00 00 8d 42 0c e8 dd 26 11 c7 a1 60 ea 2b f9 8b 50 08 a1 +64 ea 2b f9 8d 34 82 8b 1e 85 db 74 6d 8b 15 60 ea 2b f9 <8b> 43 04 39 42 54 +7e 04 40 89 42 54 8b 43 04 3b 05 00 f6 52 c0 + Finally, if you want to see where the code comes from, you can do cd /usr/src/linux @@ -237,6 +251,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise. + 8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is |