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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:13:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adatzbbap8a.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224212791.7654.63.camel@pasglop> (Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of "Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:06:31 +1100")

 > + * Right now we handle:
 > + *
 > + * - 'F' For symbolic Function descriptor pointers
 > + * - 'S' For Symbolic direct pointers), but this can easily be
 > + *       extended in the future (network address types etc).
 > + * - 'R' For a struct resouce pointer, it prints the range of
 > + *       addresses (not the name nor the flags)

A little too much cut and paste -- the "easily be extended" bit at 'S'
doesn't really make sense in the middle of the list.

 > + * Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
 > + * function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
 > + * pointer the real address.

you cut and pasted Linus's typo too -- "a pointer the real address"
should probably be "a pointer *TO* the real address"

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14  0:53 [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14  1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14  1:14   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14  1:16     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14  1:34     ` David Miller
2008-10-14  1:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14  1:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14  1:45     ` David Miller
2008-10-14  2:15       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14  2:54     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14  3:47       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14  5:38       ` David Miller
2008-10-16  8:30         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-16  8:38           ` David Miller
2008-10-16  9:02             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17  3:02             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  3:06               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  3:13                 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-10-17  3:31                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  3:49                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17  4:04                       ` David Miller
2008-10-17  4:18                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17  5:00                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  5:24                             ` David Miller
2008-10-17  5:12                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  5:21                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 10:13                             ` Olivier Galibert
2008-10-17 15:54                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 20:30                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 20:54                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 21:03                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 21:11                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 21:45                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20  3:37                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  5:21                           ` David Miller
2008-10-17  6:36                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  6:39                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17  6:47                                 ` David Miller
2008-10-17  6:51                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 15:51                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 20:06                               ` David Miller
2008-10-17  4:05                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  6:36                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17  3:39                 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-17  3:46                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  6:38                     ` H. Peter Anvin

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