Re: [PATCH 0/2] introduce DUMP_PREFIX_UNHASHED for hex dumps

[Timur Tabi]

On 1/19/21 3:15 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> When it's not related to any symbol, doesn't it still produce an offset
> with something close by, that could still give you information that's
> better than a hashed number.

No.  I often need the actual unhashed address in the hex dump so that I 
can see if some other pointer is correct.

For example, I could be doing pointer math to calculate the address of 
some data inside a block.  In this case, I would %px the pointer, and 
then hex_dump the block.  I can then see not only where inside the block 
the pointer is pointing to, but what data it points to.