Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Linux, replying to pj:
> > I'd be inclined instead to use "%P" for symbolic addrs.
> 
> That doesn't work - gcc warns about it.
> 
> That turns out to be a problem with %#p too. 

Ah so.

How about the following "sym(addr, buf)" macro?  This could make it
more practical to include kernel symbols within ordinary printk's.

On a silly little test with:

	{
		char b1[32], b2[32], b3[32];
		printk(">>>>>> Testing sym(): A. %s, B. %s, C. %s\n",
			sym(&pid_max, b1),
			sym(0xffffffff80615750, b2),		/* an addr in my System.map */
			sym(0, b3));
	}

the kernel printed:

	>>>>>> Testing sym(): A. pid_max+0x0/0x4, B. trampoline_base+0x0/0x10, C. 0x0

===========================================================================

--- linux.orig/include/linux/kallsyms.h	2008-06-23 15:16:49.885666712 -0700
+++ linux/include/linux/kallsyms.h	2008-06-25 00:48:09.446807842 -0700
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ extern int sprint_symbol(char *buffer, u
 /* Look up a kernel symbol and print it to the kernel messages. */
 extern void __print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long address);
 
+/* Convert address to kernel symbol; can printk result with "%s" format */
+#define sym(address, namebuf) ({				\
+	sprint_symbol((namebuf), (unsigned long)(address));	\
+	(namebuf);						\
+})
+
 int lookup_symbol_name(unsigned long addr, char *symname);
 int lookup_symbol_attrs(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *size, unsigned long *offset, char *modname, char *name);
 

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