[x86][v2] only print out DR registers if they are not power-ondefaults.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 12:09:39 EST


The DR registers are rarely useful when decoding oopses.
With screen real estate during oopses at a premium, we can save two lines
by only printing out these registers when they are set to something other
than they power-on state.

[v2: incorporate D6 change suggested by Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -durpN '--exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude' /home/davej/src/kernel/git-trees/linux/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c linux-dj/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
--- linux/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2013-05-01 10:02:52.064151923 -0400
+++ linux-dj/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2013-05-06 20:35:09.219868881 -0400
@@ -105,11 +105,18 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, i
get_debugreg(d0, 0);
get_debugreg(d1, 1);
get_debugreg(d2, 2);
- printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR0: %016lx DR1: %016lx DR2: %016lx\n", d0, d1, d2);
get_debugreg(d3, 3);
get_debugreg(d6, 6);
get_debugreg(d7, 7);
+
+ /* Only print out debug registers if they are in their non-default state. */
+ if ((d0 == 0) && (d1 == 0) && (d2 == 0) && (d3 == 0) &&
+ (d6 == DR6_RESERVED) && (d7 == 0x400))
+ return;
+
+ printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR0: %016lx DR1: %016lx DR2: %016lx\n", d0, d1, d2);
printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR3: %016lx DR6: %016lx DR7: %016lx\n", d3, d6, d7);
+
}

void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 7305f7d..5905dc5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -110,11 +110,16 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int all)
get_debugreg(d1, 1);
get_debugreg(d2, 2);
get_debugreg(d3, 3);
- printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR0: %08lx DR1: %08lx DR2: %08lx DR3: %08lx\n",
- d0, d1, d2, d3);
-
get_debugreg(d6, 6);
get_debugreg(d7, 7);
+
+ /* Only print out debug registers if they are in their non-default state. */
+ if ((d0 == 0) && (d1 == 0) && (d2 == 0) && (d3 == 0) &&
+ (d6 == DR6_RESERVED) && (d7 == 0x400))
+ return;
+
+ printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR0: %08lx DR1: %08lx DR2: %08lx DR3: %08lx\n",
+ d0, d1, d2, d3);
printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR6: %08lx DR7: %08lx\n",
d6, d7);
}

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