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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:14:36 +0000
Subject: Re: the printk problem
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>=20
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >=20
> > I'll give it a try using =EF=BB=BFprobe_kernel_address() instead on mon=
day.
>=20
> Here's the updated patch which uses probe_kernel_address() instead (and=20
> moves the whole #ifdef mess out of the code that wants it and into a=20
> helper function - and maybe we should then put that helper into=20
> kallsyms.h, but that's a different issue).
>=20
> Still all happily untested, of course. And still with no actual users=20
> converted.

Did a few tests and it seems to work. I'll stick a patch converting
powerpc to use %pS for oops display in -next.

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.