From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:26:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lpelxzh.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzDh7GpkKniTgQp29-6TObR8NpOKczbAW-85qux=ek0Tw@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:09:10 -0800")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> So the big remaining ones for me are the /proc/<pid>/stack (stack
>> pointers) and the /proc/net/* ones.
>>
>> I'm a bit disappointed that those haven't been fixed already and
>> aren't even in this series..
>
> Oh well, I just did /proc/<pid>/stack by making it just print 0
> unconditionally rather than the hex number.
Patch?
I know I have used /proc/<pid>/stack manually many times when looking
at a system where something is hung/weird and I needed to see what is
going on. The backtrace inside the kernel can be invaluable.
At the same time I don't know if we actually need the hex address.
But please don't break that interface it is very useful.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 23:40 [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-27 23:40 ` [PATCH 1/5] docs: correct documentation for %pK Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-28 0:46 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-27 23:40 ` [PATCH 2/5] vsprintf: refactor pK code out of pointer() Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-27 23:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] vsprintf: add specifier %px, unique identifier Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-27 23:40 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: use %px to print token identifier Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-27 23:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] vfio_pci: " Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-28 0:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 1:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 6:26 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2017-11-28 10:12 ` David Laight
2017-11-28 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 17:41 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-28 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 17:44 ` David Laight
2017-11-28 0:57 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-28 1:43 ` Tobin C. Harding
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