[PATCH] arm64: Show three registers per line

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy at infradead.org
Tue Apr 20 18:22:45 BST 2021


Displaying two registers per line takes 15 lines.  That improves to just
10 lines if we display three registers per line, which reduces the amount
of information lost when oopses are cut off.  It stays within 80 columns
and matches x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy at infradead.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 6e60aa3b5ea9..aff5a2c12297 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -294,13 +294,10 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	i = top_reg;
 
 	while (i >= 0) {
-		printk("x%-2d: %016llx ", i, regs->regs[i]);
-		i--;
+		printk("x%-2d: %016llx", i, regs->regs[i]);
 
-		if (i % 2 == 0) {
-			pr_cont("x%-2d: %016llx ", i, regs->regs[i]);
-			i--;
-		}
+		while (i-- % 3)
+			pr_cont(" x%-2d: %016llx", i, regs->regs[i]);
 
 		pr_cont("\n");
 	}
-- 
2.30.2




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