linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_poison: use unhashed address in hexdump for check_poison

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Date:   Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:09:50 -0600
From:   Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, roman.fietze@...na.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_poison: use unhashed address in hexdump for check_poison_mem()

Now that print_hex_dump() is capable of printing unhashed addresses,
use that feature in the code that reports memory errors.  Hashed
addresses don't tell you where the corrupted page actually is.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>
---
 mm/page_poison.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
index 65cdf844c8ad..4902f3261ee4 100644
--- a/mm/page_poison.c
+++ b/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static void check_poison_mem(unsigned char *mem, size_t bytes)
 	else
 		pr_err("pagealloc: memory corruption\n");
 
-	print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, "", DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, start,
+	print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, "", DUMP_PREFIX_UNHASHED, 16, 1, start,
 			end - start + 1, 1);
 	dump_stack();
 }
-- 
2.25.1