Re: [PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing

On Thu 2021-02-25 17:46:39, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also > the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose > which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of %p > (with the

Re: [PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing

On Thu 2021-02-25 17:46:39, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also > the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose > which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of %p > (with the

Re: [PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also > the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose > which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of

[PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing

We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of %p (with the new boot parameter when debugging), and stress that %pK