Re: [PATCH] x86: optionally show last exception from/to register contents (v2)

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:44:31 Jan Beulich wrote:
> .. when dumping register state. This is particularly useful when gcc
> managed to tail-call optimize an indirect call which happens to hit a
> NULL (or otherwise invalid) pointer.

I added it, with a warning in the documentation and changelog

Also all the other patches except for the #DF one. Thanks.

BTW I think there is a reasonable cheap way to avoid the interrupt race: 

If pda->irqcount was split into two 16bit words and irq entry code increases the upper 
16bit word (that should be nearly free because because both are in L1 cache; 
with some luck the CPU can even dual-issue). Then the traps code could save
the irq count early and then in the no_context case disable interrupts,
compare and only print LER if there were no interrupts inbetween.

-Andi 


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