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From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:03:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5x1p1dm.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB56721752C4BEB7A65080065EC214A@SJ0PR10MB5672.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Kris Van Hees's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:26:45 -0400")

On 16 Sep 2025, Kris Van Hees verbalised:

> Because alloca pointers are stored internally as offsets into the
> scratchmem area, they were printed as small integers.  They are
> now printed as actual pointer values into kernel space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>

So... the change is to generate real pointers for children of alloca
nodes too, and scalarize more aggressively? I don't really see what the
second part has to do with this change (and more specifically why it
didn't cause problems before now).

-- 
NULL && (void)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-17 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-16 18:26 [PATCH v4] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values Kris Van Hees
2025-09-16 22:53 ` Eugene Loh
2025-09-17 15:03 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2025-09-17 15:29   ` Kris Van Hees
2025-09-18 13:01     ` Nick Alcock
2025-09-18 14:45       ` Kris Van Hees

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