From dcecc6c70013e3a5fa81b3081480c03e10670a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:41:15 -0700
Subject: doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info

Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some
architecture oops reports and what that means.

Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report
file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/decodecode | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/decodecode

(limited to 'scripts')

diff --git a/scripts/decodecode b/scripts/decodecode
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1e1a8f620c47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/decodecode
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Disassemble the Code: line in Linux oopses
+# usage: decodecode < oops.file
+#
+# options: set env. variable AFLAGS=options to pass options to "as";
+# e.g., to decode an i386 oops on an x86_64 system, use:
+# AFLAGS=--32 decodecode < 386.oops
+
+T=`mktemp`
+code=
+
+while read i ; do
+
+case "$i" in
+*Code:*)
+	code=$i
+	;;
+esac
+
+done
+
+if [ -z "$code" ]; then
+	exit
+fi
+
+echo $code
+code=`echo $code | sed -e 's/.*Code: //'`
+
+marker=`expr index "$code" "\<"`
+if [ $marker -eq 0 ]; then
+	marker=`expr index "$code" "\("`
+fi
+
+if [ $marker -ne 0 ]; then
+	beforemark=`echo "$code" | cut -c-$((${marker} - 1))`
+	echo -n "	.byte 0x" > $T.s
+	echo $beforemark | sed -e 's/ /,0x/g' >> $T.s
+	as $AFLAGS -o $T.o $T.s
+	objdump -S $T.o
+	rm $T.o $T.s
+
+# and fix code at-and-after marker
+	code=`echo "$code" | cut -c$((${marker} + 1))-`
+fi
+
+code=`echo $code | sed -e 's/ [<(]/ /;s/[>)] / /;s/ /,0x/g'`
+echo -n "	.byte 0x" > $T.s
+echo $code >> $T.s
+as $AFLAGS -o $T.o $T.s
+objdump -S $T.o
+rm $T.o $T.s
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