[PATCH v2] scripts: add ARM support to decodecode
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Tue Jan 5 17:14:37 EST 2010
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:27:58PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> This patch adds support for decoding ARM oopses to scripts/decodecode.
> The following things are handled:
>
> - ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE environment variables are respected.
>
> - The Code: in x86 oopses is in bytes, while it is in either words (4
> bytes) or halfwords for ARM.
>
> - Some versions of ARM objdump refuse to disassemble instructions
> generated by literal constants (".word 0x..."). The workaround is to
> strip the object file first.
>
> - The faulting instruction is marked (liked so) in ARM, but <like so>
> in x86.
>
> - ARM mnemonics may include characters such as [] which need to be
> escaped before being passed to sed for the "<- trapping instruction"
> substitution.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> ---
> v2: condensed some sed and grep expressions
Condensation portion Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
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