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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: printk issue - bug?
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:52:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaab7wgabs.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b67d60903071537p10994257obc7cce99028a740c@mail.gmail.com> (Adrian McMenamin's message of "Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:37:15 +0000")

 > printk("PAGE_SIZE is 0x%X\n", PAGE_SIZE);
 > printk("Offset is 0x%X, PAGE_SIZE is 0x%X, readlen is 0x%X\n", offset,
 > PAGE_SIZE, readlen)
 > 
 > Output is:
 > 
 > [  162.603348] PAGE_SIZE is 0x1000
 > [  162.607473] Offset is 0x0, PAGE_SIZE is 0x0, readlen is 0x1000
 > 
 > ie PAGE_SIZE is incorrectly reported in the second printk (these are
 > consecutive lines of code)
 > 
 > offset is loff_t and readlen is unsigned long.

ie offset is a 64-bit type but the printk format for it is %x, which
presumably only consumes 32 bits on SH4?  Seems like your code is buggy
and you ignored a compiler warning about printk format mismatch?

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-07 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 23:37 printk issue - bug? Adrian McMenamin
2009-03-07 23:52 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-03-08  1:04   ` Adrian McMenamin
2009-03-08  2:20     ` Robert Hancock

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