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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] lib: Add error string support to printks
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:07:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379639226.5862.9.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523A5316.50405@att.net>

On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 20:27 -0500, Daniel Santos wrote:
> if I use ERR_PTR() on a signed int on a x86_64 where pointer 
> is 64 bits and int is 32, wouldn't that mean a signed conversion 
> instruction where the sign bit has to be moved from bit 31 to 63?

No.  It's cast to long

static inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error)
{
	return (void *) error;
}

> Either way, %pE does seem to make a lot of sense for conditions where we 
> already have a pointer that we would otherwise use PTR_ERR() to convert, 
> but it just seems klunky to use it on an int, to have it treated like a 
> pointer and then re-interpreted as an int.  Maybe we can add %pE as well 
> as %dE and leave [ioxXu] out of it?

I think having just one way to format is better.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-20  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-17 23:08 [PATCH 0/5] Preliminary: Add error names & descrptions to printks danielfsantos
2013-09-17 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] scripts: Add mkstrerror.sh danielfsantos
2013-09-18 11:38   ` David Howells
2013-09-18 11:55     ` David Howells
2013-09-18 22:27       ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-18 22:43     ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-19 22:35     ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-19 22:53       ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-17 23:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] lib: Add .config options for error strings in printks danielfsantos
2013-09-17 23:18   ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-17 23:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] Makefile: Generate error_strings.h danielfsantos
2013-09-17 23:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] lib: Add strerror and strerror_name functions danielfsantos
2013-09-17 23:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] lib: Add error string support to printks danielfsantos
2013-09-18  5:36   ` Joe Perches
2013-09-18 11:04     ` David Howells
2013-09-19  1:27       ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-20  1:07         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-09-20  5:21           ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-20 11:45             ` Joe Perches
2013-09-20 13:07               ` David Howells
2013-09-23 20:17                 ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-23 19:40               ` Daniel Santos
2013-09-18 11:08 ` [PATCH 0/5] Preliminary: Add error names & descrptions " David Howells
2013-09-18 22:47   ` Daniel Santos

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