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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Show pointer address for mem dump with corruption error
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:06:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DC5FAD.2070409@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uh2jplxz3jf8g2@pc-bnaujok.melbourne.sgi.com>

Barry Naujok wrote:
> When XFS detects corruption, it prints a message and a small hex dump
> of the offending code.
> 
> The first value in this hexdump currently is "0000000:" which is just
> the offset into the pointer being passed to print_hex_dump().
> 
> The following patch changes this to display the address of the memory
> dump:
> 
> --- a/fs/xfs/support/debug.c    2008-09-26 13:15:02.000000000 +1000
> +++ b/fs/xfs/support/debug.c    2008-09-26 12:53:50.765134441 +1000
> @@ -84,5 +84,5 @@ assfail(char *expr, char *file, int line
>   void
>   xfs_hex_dump(void *p, int length)
>   {
> -       print_hex_dump(KERN_ALERT, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16, 1, p,  
> length, 1);
> +       print_hex_dump(KERN_ALERT, "", DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, p,  
> length, 1);
>   }
> 
> 

Looks fine (and a fine idea) to me :)

-Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26  3:23 [REVIEW] Show pointer address for mem dump with corruption error Barry Naujok
2008-09-26  4:06 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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