linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:29:49 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	steiner@....com, travis@....com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> Yinghai wrote:
>> we should remove 0x,
>
> I see some kernel hex prints either way, with or without, 0x.
>
> In this case, in part because I was changing a decimal to a hex
> format, and because it could be ambiguous (a hex number that
> happened to use only [0-9] digits would be indistinguisable from
> a decimal) I preferred using the 0x.
>
> I see no clear answer here ... it seems to be a matter of taste.
>
>> we should ... hex print out all the way...regarding mem pfn and
>> memory address, memory size etc. except XXXMB. XXXKB...
>
> I fixed the ones I noticed.  If you see print formats that you
> would like to change, I will likely be in agreement to such a
> patch.

got

Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA      0x       0 -> 0x    1000
  DMA32    0x    1000 -> 0x  100000
  Normal   0x  100000 -> 0x  428000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[5] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x       0 -> 0x      99
    0: 0x     100 -> 0x   d7fa0
    0: 0x   d7fae -> 0x   d7fb0
    0: 0x  100000 -> 0x  228000
    1: 0x  228000 -> 0x  428000

YH
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