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    SubjectRe: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px
    Hi Linus,

    On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
    <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
    > <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> I see some %p-s being used in _supposedly_ important output,
    >> like arch/x86/mm/fault.c
    >>
    >> show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
    >> unsigned long address)
    >> ...
    >> printk(KERN_CONT " at %p\n", (void *) address);
    >> printk(KERN_ALERT "IP: %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip);
    >
    > So %pS isn't %p, and shows the symbolic name.

    If the symbolic name is available.
    Else it prints the non-hashed pointer value (FTR).

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

    --
    Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

    In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
    when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
    -- Linus Torvalds

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