Oops accuracy

Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:08:08 -0400 (EDT)


> From: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>

>> Can you copy down the oops? You'd need to do it by hand, and it's a very
>> boring thing to do, I know, but it might be instructive.
>
> Something like the following:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ... at vrituall address c0000001
> current->txx.cr3=00101000, %cr3=00101000
> *pde=00102067
> *pte=00000027
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010[<0018d912>]
> EFLAGS: 00010202
> eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00092f60 edx: 00092f64
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00095808 ebp: 00000000 esp: 00092f24
...
> no warranty for absolut correctness :-)

We could test for absolute correctness if the oops code did a CRC of
each part of the oops.