linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 5/6] symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:44:57 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 5/6] symbol lookup: introduce
 dereference_symbol_descriptor()

On Sat 2017-11-11 13:49:32, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (11/10/17 10:09), Luck, Tony wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 08:48:29AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > -Examples::
> > > -
> > > -	printk("Going to call: %pF\n", gettimeofday);
> > > -	printk("Going to call: %pF\n", p->func);
> > > -	printk("%s: called from %pS\n", __func__, (void *)_RET_IP_);
> > > -	printk("%s: called from %pS\n", __func__,
> > > -				(void *)__builtin_return_address(0));
> > > -	printk("Faulted at %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip);
> > > -	printk(" %s%pB\n", (reliable ? "" : "? "), (void *)*stack);
> > 
> > Did you mean to delete the Examples completely?  Wouldn't it
> > be better to just update (s/%pF/%pS/g)?
> 
> good question. yes, I think I did it deliberately :) we still
> kinda have some sort of "examples", right at the beginning of
> section "Symbols/Function Pointers"

These extra examples were added just recently (v4.14-rc1)
by the commit fd46cd55fbc5a8e8c ("printk-formats.txt: Add examples
for %pF and %pS usage"). They were supposed to help using
%pF and %pS correctly according to the situation. But we
have a better solution now. %pF is obsoleted by this
patchset.

IMHO, it is perfectly fine to remove the extra examples.

Best Regards,
Petr