Hello Tao,

Have you reproduced the issue on s390?
Just trigger a segfault in the test program (e.g. by de-referencing a
null pointer), run crash on a live system and check the 'log' output.

On 10/7/2025 1:36 PM, Mikhail Zaslonko wrote:
> Hi Tao,
> 
> On 10/7/2025 1:11 AM, Tao Liu wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM lijiang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM Mikhail Zaslonko <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On 9/30/2025 4:53 AM, lijiang wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM Mikhail Zaslonko <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Lianbo,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems we have a problem printing disassembly blocks in the log after
>>>>>> this patch (at least on s390).
>>>>>> See number of empty lines printed below.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you try it with the following two patches?
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01621.html
>>>> This patch is present on crash master, doesnt affect the issue.
>>>>> [2]
>>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01636.html
>>>>>
>>>> This one helps indeed! At least I do not se the blanks lines in my 
>>>> scenario.
>>>> BUT, if I use 'log -R' the blank lines are back again!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information, Mikhail.
>>> Let me see how to debug this(although I can not reproduce it on s390x).
>>
>> I didn't reproduce the issue on my s390x machine either, maybe sharing
>> the vmcore to us can help.
> 
> I'm not sure I'm allowed to send this data outside.
> 
> I think the problem takes place for the logs printed with pr_cont() by the
> kernel (e.g. show_code() of arch/s390/kernel/dis.c for printing disassembly as
> in my sample).
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tao Liu
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Lianbo
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Before the patch:
>>>>>>   [   21.408784] Krnl GPRS: 000002aa3780c000 0000000000238c00
>>>>>> 0000000015800000 0000000000001000
>>>>>>   [   21.408787]            0000000008e30000 00000000b0001000
>>>>>> 0000000000000000 0000000000000a55
>>>>>>   [   21.408790]            0000000004c52300 000002aa3780c000
>>>>>> 00000000084281d0 0000038000bfbd28
>>>>>>   [   21.408794]            00000000075e9500 0000000004c52300
>>>>>> 0000038000bfbbf0 0000038000bfbb90
>>>>>>   [   21.408860] Krnl Code: 000000000e0acf48: c05fb0001000        llilf
>>>>>>  %r5,2952794112
>>>>>>                             000000000e0acf4e: ec4100b30659        risbgn
>>>>>> %r4,%r1,0,179,6
>>>>>>                            #000000000e0acf54: 0e24                mvcl
>>>>>> %r2,%r4
>>>>>>                            >000000000e0acf56: a7280000            lhi
>>>>>>  %r2,0
>>>>>>                             000000000e0acf5a: eb6ff0a80004        lmg
>>>>>>  %r6,%r15,168(%r15)
>>>>>>                             000000000e0acf60: b9140022            lgfr
>>>>>> %r2,%r2
>>>>>>                             000000000e0acf64: 07fe                bcr
>>>>>>  15,%r14
>>>>>>                             000000000e0acf66: 47000700            bc
>>>>>> 0,1792
>>>>>>   [   21.408883] Call Trace:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After the patch:
>>>>>>   [   21.408784] Krnl GPRS: 000002aa3780c000 0000000000238c00
>>>>>> 0000000015800000 0000000000001000
>>>>>>   [   21.408787]            0000000008e30000 00000000b0001000
>>>>>> 0000000000000000 0000000000000a55
>>>>>>   [   21.408790]            0000000004c52300 000002aa3780c000
>>>>>> 00000000084281d0 0000038000bfbd28
>>>>>>   [   21.408794]            00000000075e9500 0000000004c52300
>>>>>> 0000038000bfbbf0 0000038000bfbb90
>>>>>>   [   21.408860]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                  Krnl Code: 000000000e0acf48: c05fb0001000        llilf
>>>>>>  %r5,2952794112
>>>>>>   [   21.408883] Call Trace:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think your approach of storing printable characters in the buffer with
>>>>>> the intention to modify it
>>>>>> afterwards (see [1] below) instead of writing it character wise does not
>>>>>> work when the input data
>>>>>> contains several lines. Those '\n' are written one by one, what leads to
>>>>>> the result shown above.
>>>>>> You should probably buffer and 'demangle' each line separately.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like different issues.  Can you share your vmcore and vmlinux with
>>>>> me? I did not reproduce it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Lianbo
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
> 
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