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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/7] Use shorter addresses in i386 segfault printks
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:22:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200540141.17967.8.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478EC77E.8090103@zytor.com>

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 22:11 -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 23:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/x86/mm/fault_32.c |    2 +-
> > 
> > Could use exactly the same in fault_64.c
> > 
> >>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> >> -			"%s%s[%d]: segfault at %08lx ip %08lx sp %08lx error %lx\n",
> >> +			"%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %08lx sp %08lx error %lx\n",
> >>  #else
> >>  			"%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %lx sp %lx error %lx\n",
> >>  #endif
> > 
> > With the ongoing unification work, it would be nice if we could come
> > up with a way to unify printks like this.  Anyone have any bright ideas
> > on a format that will keep the current alignment on 32 and 64 bit with
> > the same syntax, or will these tiny ifdefs keep sprouting?
> > 
> 
> Casting to (void *) and using %p is probably your best bet.  That's what 
> it really is anyway.
> 
> Note: in the kernel right now, %p doesn't have the leading 0x prefix, 
> which it probably should...

Well, that won't exactly be the nicest looking solution in places, maybe
a shorthand could be developed for this, or could another format
specifier be added that implicitly does the (void *) cast? (%P perhaps)

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 22:27 [PATCH] [0/7] Some random x86 patches that should all go into git-x86 Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [1/7] i386: Move MWAIT idle check to generic CPU initialization Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [2/7] Use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [3/7] Use shorter addresses in i386 segfault printks Andi Kleen
2008-01-17  2:58   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-17  3:11     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-17  3:22       ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-01-17  3:21         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-17 11:27     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [4/7] Print which shared library/executable faulted in segfault etc. messages Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [5/7] Replace hard coded reservations in x86-64 early boot code with dynamic table v2 Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [6/7] Optimize lock prefix switching to run less frequently v2 Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] [7/7] Don't disable the APIC if it hasn't been mapped yet Andi Kleen
2008-01-18  9:43 ` [PATCH] [0/7] Some random x86 patches that should all go into git-x86 Ingo Molnar

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