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Sean Christopherson 18ea35c5ed x86/fault: Decode and print #PF oops in human readable form
Linus pointed out that deciphering the raw #PF error code and printing
a more human readable message are two different things, and also that
printing the negative cases is mostly just noise[1].  For example, the
USER bit doesn't mean the fault originated in user code and stating
that an oops wasn't due to a protection keys violation isn't interesting
since an oops on a keys violation is a one-in-a-million scenario.

Remove the per-bit decoding of the error code and instead print:
  - the raw error code
  - why the fault occurred
  - the effective privilege level of the access
  - the type of access
  - whether the fault originated in user code or kernel code

This provides the user with the information needed to triage 99.9% of
oopses without polluting the log with useless information or conflating
the error_code with the CPL.

Sample output:

    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address = 0000000000000008
    #PF: supervisor-privileged instruction fetch from kernel code
    #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = ffffbeef00000000
    #PF: supervisor-privileged instruction fetch from kernel code
    #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = ffffc90000230000
    #PF: supervisor-privileged write access from kernel code
    #PF: error_code(0x000b) - reserved bit violation

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whk_fsnxVMvF1T2fFCaP2WrvSybABrLQCWLJyCvHw6NKA@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221213657.27628-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-19 19:31:16 +02:00
arch x86/fault: Decode and print #PF oops in human readable form 2019-04-19 19:31:16 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix sbitmap ws_active for shared tags 2019-03-25 13:05:47 -06:00
certs
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation x86/mm: Fix the 56-bit addresses memory map in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt 2019-04-16 09:00:34 +02:00
drivers dmaengine-5.10-rc3 2019-03-31 07:42:39 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'work.aio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-04-01 08:28:36 -07:00
include A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to documentation. 2019-03-31 08:55:59 -07:00
init init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-31 08:22:12 -07:00
lib for-linus-20190329 2019-03-29 14:43:07 -07:00
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mm mm/migrate.c: add missing flush_dcache_page for non-mapped page migrate 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
net A patch to avoid choking on multipage bvecs in the messenger and 2019-03-29 14:41:09 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-11 08:54:01 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-29 16:02:28 -07:00
security LSM: Revive CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_* for "make oldconfig" 2019-03-29 14:08:49 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.1-rc3 2019-03-29 14:53:33 -07:00
tools A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to documentation. 2019-03-31 08:55:59 -07:00
usr
virt KVM/ARM fixes for 5.1 2019-03-28 19:07:30 +01:00
.clang-format Merge branch 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 13:43:42 -07:00
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.mailmap mailmap: add Changbin Du 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
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CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-31 07:48:58 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.1-rc3 2019-03-31 14:39:29 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.