Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2021-04-07

Re: [PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-02-25 16:56:38
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also
the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose
which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of %p
(with the new boot parameter when debugging), and stress that %pK should be
only used for procfs and similar files, not dmesg buffer. This patch clarifies
the documentation in that regard.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Really nice job.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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