linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with

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Message-ID: <adatzbbap8a.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:13:09 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, yhlu.kernel@...il.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

 > + * 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.
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