linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pte

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Message-ID: <e5aaaed3-6742-409e-96d9-aa41b9365cb1@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:08:54 +0530
From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pte_t



On 19/06/25 6:42 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2025-06-18 20:46:38, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 09:42:34AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> Add a new format for printing page table entries.
>>
>>> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
>>> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
>>> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
>>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
>>
>> Please. move these to be after the '---' cutter line below. Just leave SoB tag
>> alone. This will have the same effect w/o polluting commit message.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
>>> ---
>>
>> (somewhere here is a good place for all your Cc: tags)
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> +        %ppte
>>
>> I believe you can take %pte.
> 
> We should think about the future. If we added "pte", people would want
> to add also "pmd", "pud", ...
> 
> It might actually be a good idea to keep them under the %pp prefix.

Agreed.

The first 'p' here is for being pointer and second 'p' is from 'p'xx.
Then last two letters to differentiate between page table levels.