linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memblock: Allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 14:30:34 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memblock: Allocate boot time data structures
 from mirrored memory

On Thu, 7 May 2015 14:24:46 -0700 Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >> +     if (!ret && flag) {
> >> +             pr_warn("Could not allocate %lld bytes of mirrored memory\n", size);
> >
> > This printk will warn on some configs.  Print a phys_addr_t with %pap.
> > I think.  See huge comment over lib/vsprintf.c:pointer().
> 
> The comment may be huge - but it seems to lie about phys_addr_t :-(
> 
> I changed to %pap and got:
> 
> mm/memblock.c: In function 'memblock_find_in_range':
> mm/memblock.c:276:3: warning: format '%p' expects argument of type
> 'void *', but argument 2 has type 'phys_addr_t' [-Wformat=]
>    pr_warn("Could not allocate %pap bytes of mirrored memory\n",

Use "&size" rather than "size".  All the %p extensions require a
pointer to the thing-to-be-printed.

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