Re: [PATCH 1/3] [PATCH 1/3] vsprintf: add %ps that is the same as%pS but is like %pf

From: Zhaolei
Date: Thu Sep 17 2009 - 02:04:54 EST


Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On PowerPC64 function pointers do not point directly at the functions,
> but instead point to pointers to the functions. The output of %pF expects
> to point to a pointer to the function, whereas %pS will show the function
> itself.
>
> mcount returns the direct pointer to the function and not the pointer to
> the pointer. Thus %pS must be used to show this. The function tracer
> requires printing of the functions without offsets and uses the %pf
> instead.
>
> %pF produces run_local_timers+0x4/0x1f
> %pf produces just run_local_timers
>
> For PowerPC64, we need to use the direct pointer, and we only have
> %pS which will produce .run_local_timers+0x4/0x1f
>
> This patch creates a %ps that matches the %pf as %pS matches %pF.
>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/vsprintf.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> index 756ccaf..c265e75 100644
> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static char *symbol_string(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
> unsigned long value = (unsigned long) ptr;
> #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
> char sym[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
> - if (ext != 'f')
> + if (ext != 'f' && ext != 's')
> sprint_symbol(sym, value);
> else
> kallsyms_lookup(value, NULL, NULL, NULL, sym);
> @@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ static char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
> case 'F':
> case 'f':
> ptr = dereference_function_descriptor(ptr);
> + case 's':
> /* Fallthrough */
> case 'S':
> return symbol_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, *fmt);
> @@ -958,7 +959,8 @@ qualifier:
> * @args: Arguments for the format string
> *
> * This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions:
> - * %pS output the name of a text symbol
> + * %pS output the name of a text symbol with offset
> + * %ps output the name of a text symbol without offset

Comments of bstr_printf() also need to be updated.
or remove duplation and just say "refer to vsnprintf()" in bstr_printf()'s
comment.

Thanks
Zhaolei

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