From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E94BD2DCF55; Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781205375; cv=none; b=BcLt/J8hEM89ZyBl5js/LQew3iqQzALrpPlEkINpEdt7cYxARQxb03GG7JkClQSmrMf7Js8ToXDQyjy/L2v41cwfpl2rI7px2b0JOmvI8hJaLqbLsVN1bA71rko4dYMR+0VTjd6A8lQwFzO76hdHO3wUD2ZTjafWZcFfzh+R5Ps= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781205375; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6ExX3LobtHFEu3Vm8rooNNo5Kn+8vTXzVf9LIEUwGaY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=nlC6WYhHzy96sqeLjVdV/hgDB1jqenLANYcfdd0TTR7FzQJC0dN4I725EBR53flJ72bsmPXHOy1EJlYFsdIFOaCw0Gyq9/mGFjNMmTHd6zn3W3WYaTMQEbCK8++B7M1YxzYcf61Nz5M4VdqTvFJWxhzVXvUUteYjEiKi9PMRd94= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=DjhVC2O3; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="DjhVC2O3" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=rZd4WLjqq4XvQwHB47ThdrCyV6Re/i6LgV+u2yu9EGA=; b=DjhVC2O3x2oTgn/xwo1dHD8O76 yREnZrPW3PKdThR4vYr/3TZle42hkbSQDwk507HmsgtNWQbHG+SmAMQogfrUq6FQK6NPe3Bg28K/k 5nfCDnlYa8uHKllJ7gswJjxhDCyy8avOiX83lqv2wbvaZZaTlWFyN0fd6QhRMmMjSwYAO4notbPs9 L1tr9+hkWAeGKwJc8EPFH5IhO40P3igMiFM/FqFfsZG4460RJwLFjRqZ8qpCjmT3pgMe0jd6fD9+Q lhO6cvnWgF0E5PXRr+0w4C4jxu72ApfALVtT/+ldjp0n/H1XtVw93sD/VwRFZAgonMnjMvYDaGa4v 80OhGT7w==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wXksf-00000002S6h-3zk7; Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:15:57 +0000 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:15:57 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Anshuman Khandual Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andy Shevchenko , Rasmus Villemoes , Sergey Senozhatsky , Petr Mladek , Steven Rostedt , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/3] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pgtable entries Message-ID: References: <20260610043545.3725735-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260610043545.3725735-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 05:35:42AM +0100, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > Printing page table entries has been a common requirement both in generic > and platform memory management for various purposes. Hence let's create a > dedicated printk format for such entries which will also help standardize > pgtable printing across different platforms. You didn't address my objection here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/aFQP8LzVMctf6XH5@casper.infradead.org/ ie there is now no typechecking possible. So you've made it more dangerous. I reiterate my NACK to the concept, not to the implementation.