linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: Remove unnecessary integer promotion in format string

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Message-ID: <20251228154456.2386-1-kdipendra88@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:44:55 +0000
From: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@...il.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: Remove unnecessary integer promotion in format string

The 'h' length modifier in '%hd' is unnecessary as short integers are
promoted to int in variadic functions. Use '%d' instead.

Signed-off-by: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@...il.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5eb11fbba704..94066316e3ec 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static void dump_oom_victim(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *victim)
 
 static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc)
 {
-	pr_warn("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=%#x(%pGg), order=%d, oom_score_adj=%hd\n",
+	pr_warn("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=%#x(%pGg), order=%d, oom_score_adj=%d\n",
 		current->comm, oc->gfp_mask, &oc->gfp_mask, oc->order,
 			current->signal->oom_score_adj);
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && oc->order)
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ static void __oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *victim, const char *message)
 	 */
 	do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, victim, PIDTYPE_TGID);
 	mark_oom_victim(victim);
-	pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB, UID:%u pgtables:%lukB oom_score_adj:%hd\n",
+	pr_err("%s: Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB, shmem-rss:%lukB, UID:%u pgtables:%lukB oom_score_adj:%d\n",
 		message, task_pid_nr(victim), victim->comm, K(mm->total_vm),
 		K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES)),
 		K(get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES)),
-- 
2.43.0