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

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Mon Apr 20 2020 - 13:25:46 EST


Hi Joe,

On 4/18/20 9:40 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

Makes sense.
Would you mind if I'll do it on the top of these patches?
[not to mix new printk-format with patches those add loglvl parameter]

>
> 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);
>
>

Thanks,
Dmitry