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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
	usama.arif@linux.dev, hughd@google.com, willy@infradead.org,
	ryan.roberts@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] mm: Standardize printing for pgtable entries
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:16:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22bae03a-1a7e-41f4-8012-a511c173400d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260709170816.4e876a16eef9a93f41bb1940@linux-foundation.org>

On 7/10/26 02:08, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Jul 2026 10:13:34 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
>>
>> Bad page map reporting currently stores page table entry values in an
>> unsigned long long and prints them with fixed 64-bit-oriented format
>> strings. This is inconsistent across call sites and does not work well for
>> architectures where page table entry values are not naturally represented
>> as 64-bit values, such as 32-bit or 128-bit entries.
> 
> Well grumble.  It's a lot of fuss for something which nobody is hurting
> from.  Or are they?  What's the actual utility here?

Hugh seems to rely on this information heavily when debugging

https://lore.kernel.org/r/3afa822d-3cc9-1068-9a10-94a5f2e4d29a@google.com

-- 
Cheers,

David

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09  4:43 [PATCH V3] mm: Standardize printing for pgtable entries Anshuman Khandual
2026-07-09  7:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-09  9:12   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 10:09     ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-09 10:19       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09  9:15   ` Petr Mladek
2026-07-09 10:11     ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-09 10:13       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-09 10:24         ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 10:43           ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-09 11:12             ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-07-09 11:54               ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-10  0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-10  3:10   ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-07-10  3:32     ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-10  8:16   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]

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