Re: [PATCHv3 01/50] kallsyms/printk: Add loglvl to print_ip_sym()

[Joe Perches]

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.

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);