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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:32:14 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px
Hi Linus,
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> wrote:
>> I see some %p-s being used in _supposedly_ important output,
>> like arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>>
>> show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>> unsigned long address)
>> ...
>> printk(KERN_CONT " at %p\n", (void *) address);
>> printk(KERN_ALERT "IP: %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip);
>
> So %pS isn't %p, and shows the symbolic name.
If the symbolic name is available.
Else it prints the non-hashed pointer value (FTR).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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