From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:13:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adatzbbap8a.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224212791.7654.63.camel@pasglop> (Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of "Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:06:31 +1100")
> + * Right now we handle:
> + *
> + * - 'F' For symbolic Function descriptor pointers
> + * - 'S' For Symbolic direct pointers), but this can easily be
> + * extended in the future (network address types etc).
> + * - 'R' For a struct resouce pointer, it prints the range of
> + * addresses (not the name nor the flags)
A little too much cut and paste -- the "easily be extended" bit at 'S'
doesn't really make sense in the middle of the list.
> + * Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
> + * function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
> + * pointer the real address.
you cut and pasted Linus's typo too -- "a pointer the real address"
should probably be "a pointer *TO* the real address"
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 0:53 [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14 1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14 1:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14 1:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14 1:34 ` David Miller
2008-10-14 1:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14 1:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14 1:45 ` David Miller
2008-10-14 2:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14 3:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-14 5:38 ` David Miller
2008-10-16 8:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-16 8:38 ` David Miller
2008-10-16 9:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 3:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 3:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 3:13 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-10-17 3:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 4:04 ` David Miller
2008-10-17 4:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 5:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 5:24 ` David Miller
2008-10-17 5:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 5:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 10:13 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-10-17 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 20:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 21:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 21:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20 3:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 5:21 ` David Miller
2008-10-17 6:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 6:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 6:47 ` David Miller
2008-10-17 6:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17 20:06 ` David Miller
2008-10-17 4:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 6:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-17 3:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-17 3:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 6:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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