Re: [PATCH] x86: init: Remove raw kernel pointer from printk

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 15:48:55 EST


Jeff,

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Jeff loughlin wrote:

> From: Jeff Loughlin <loughlinjd@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> printk message in set_real_mode_mem() contains a raw kernel pointer, which printk rightly changes to (ptrval).

Please format your changelog properly next time. Left aligned and line
breaks around 78 characters.

> This is useless in the dmesg log and should be removed.

Agreed, (ptrval) is pretty useless, but this is a debug printk and the real
address is not useless for debugging, so just removing it is not
necessarily the best solution.

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Loughlin <loughlinjd@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
> index d101058..d76a138 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
> @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ void __init set_real_mode_mem(phys_addr_t mem, size_t size)
> void *base = __va(mem);
>
> real_mode_header = (struct real_mode_header *) base;
> - printk(KERN_DEBUG "Base memory trampoline at [%p] %llx size %zu\n",
> - base, (unsigned long long)mem, size);
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "Base memory trampoline at %llx size %zu\n",
> + (unsigned long long)mem, size);

Please check your patches with scripts/checkpatch.pl next time. It would
have told you to change that printk(KERN_DEBUG) to pr_debug()

Thanks,

tglx