From: Steven Rostedt On PowerPC64 function pointers do not point directly at the functions, but instead point to pointers to the functions. The output of %pF expects to point to a pointer to the function, whereas %pS will show the function itself. mcount returns the direct pointer to the function and not the pointer to the pointer. Thus %pS must be used to show this. The function tracer requires printing of the functions without offsets and uses the %pf instead. %pF produces run_local_timers+0x4/0x1f %pf produces just run_local_timers For PowerPC64, we need to use the direct pointer, and we only have %pS which will produce .run_local_timers+0x4/0x1f This patch creates a %ps that matches the %pf as %pS matches %pF. Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Zhao Lei Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- lib/vsprintf.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index 756ccaf..c265e75 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static char *symbol_string(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, unsigned long value = (unsigned long) ptr; #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS char sym[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN]; - if (ext != 'f') + if (ext != 'f' && ext != 's') sprint_symbol(sym, value); else kallsyms_lookup(value, NULL, NULL, NULL, sym); @@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ static char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, case 'F': case 'f': ptr = dereference_function_descriptor(ptr); + case 's': /* Fallthrough */ case 'S': return symbol_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, *fmt); @@ -958,7 +959,8 @@ qualifier: * @args: Arguments for the format string * * This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions: - * %pS output the name of a text symbol + * %pS output the name of a text symbol with offset + * %ps output the name of a text symbol without offset * %pF output the name of a function pointer with its offset * %pf output the name of a function pointer without its offset * %pR output the address range in a struct resource -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/