linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 01/50] kallsyms/printk: Add loglvl to print_ip

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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:25:32 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
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        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
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        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 01/50] kallsyms/printk: Add loglvl to print_ip_sym()

Hi Joe,

On 4/18/20 9:40 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 21:18 +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>> print_ip_sym() needs to have a log level parameter to comply with other
>> parts being printed. Otherwise, half of the expected backtrace would be
>> printed and other may be missing with some logging level.
> 
> I'd rather create another extension to %ps that also emits
> the [<address>] along with the symbol lookup and retire
> print_ip_sym altogether.

Makes sense.
Would you mind if I'll do it on the top of these patches?
[not to mix new printk-format with patches those add loglvl parameter]

> 
> Something like:
> ---
>  lib/vsprintf.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> index 7c488a..8fce8f 100644
> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -2072,6 +2072,8 @@ char *fwnode_string(char *buf, char *end, struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
>   * - 'S' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) with offset
>   * - 's' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) without offset
>   * - '[Ss]R' as above with __builtin_extract_return_addr() translation
> + * - '[Ss]B' [<address>] and symbolic direct pointers as above
> + *	     (was used previously used as print_ip_sym)
>   * - '[Ff]' %pf and %pF were obsoleted and later removed in favor of
>   *	    %ps and %pS. Be careful when re-using these specifiers.
>   * - 'B' For backtraced symbolic direct pointers with offset
> @@ -2183,6 +2185,8 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
>  	case 'S':
>  	case 's':
>  		ptr = dereference_symbol_descriptor(ptr);
> +		if (fmt[1] == 'B')
> +			buf += vsprintf(buf, end, "[<%px>] ", ptr);
>  		/* Fallthrough */
>  	case 'B':
>  		return symbol_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
> 
> 

Thanks,
          Dmitry