Call show_instructions() in arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c to dump instructions at faulty location, useful to debugging.
Before this patch, an unhandled signal message looked like: pandafault[10524]: segfault (11) at 100007d0 nip 1000061c lr 7fffbd295100 code 2 in pandafault[10000000+10000] After this patch, it looks like: pandafault[10524]: segfault (11) at 100007d0 nip 1000061c lr 7fffbd295100 code 2 in pandafault[10000000+10000] Instruction dump: 4bfffeec 4bfffee8 3c401002 38427f00 fbe1fff8 f821ffc1 7c3f0b78 3d22fffe 392988d0 f93f0020 e93f0020 39400048 <99490000> 39200000 7d234b78 383f0040 Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muri...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c index e71f12bca146..b27f3f71d745 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ #include <asm/hmi.h> #include <sysdev/fsl_pci.h> #include <asm/kprobes.h> +#include <asm/stacktrace.h> #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUGGER) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) int (*__debugger)(struct pt_regs *regs) __read_mostly; @@ -356,6 +357,8 @@ static void show_signal_msg(int signr, struct pt_regs *regs, int code, print_vma_addr(KERN_CONT " in ", regs->nip); pr_cont("\n"); + + show_instructions(regs); } void _exception_pkey(int signr, struct pt_regs *regs, int code, -- 2.17.1