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* lib: vsprintf: add IPv4/v6 generic %p[Ii]S[pfs] format specifierDaniel Borkmann2013-07-011-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to avoid making code that deals with printing both, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, unnecessary complicated as for example ... if (sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) printk("... %pI6 ...", ..sin6_addr); else printk("... %pI4 ...", ..sin_addr.s_addr); ... it would be better to introduce a format specifier that can deal with those kind of situations internally; just as we have a "struct sockaddr" for generic mapping into "struct sockaddr_in" or "struct sockaddr_in6" as e.g. done in "union sctp_addr". Then, we could reduce the above statement into something like: printk("... %pIS ..", &sockaddr); In case our pointer is NULL, pointer() then deals with that already at an earlier point in time internally. While we're at it, support for both %piS/%pIS, where 'S' stands for sockaddr, comes (almost) for free. Additionally to that, postfix specifiers 'p', 'f' and 's' are supported as suggested and initially implemented in 2009 by Joe Perches [1]. Handling of those additional specifiers orientate on the initial RFC that was proposed. Also we support IPv6 compressed format specified by 'c' and various other IPv4 extensions as stated in the documentation part. Likely, there are many other areas than just SCTP in the kernel to make use of this extension as well. [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/31480/ Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> CC: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-04-301-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull fixup for trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Unfortunately I made a mistake when merging into for-linus branch, and omitted one pre-requisity patch for a few other patches (which have been Acked by the appropriate maintainers) in the series. Mea culpa maxima, sorry for that." The trivial branch added %pSR usage before actually teaching vsnprintf() about the 'R' part of %pSR. The 'R' causes the symbol translation to do a "__builtin_extract_return_addr()" before symbol lookup. That said, on most architectures __builtin_extract_return_addr() isn't likely to do anything special, so it probably is not normally noticeable. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: vsprintf: Add extension %pSR - print_symbol replacement
| * vsprintf: Add extension %pSR - print_symbol replacementJoe Perches2013-04-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | print_symbol takes a long and converts it to a function name and offset. %pS does something similar, but doesn't translate the address via __builtin_extract_return_addr. %pSR does the translation. This will enable replacing multiple calls like printk(...); printk_symbol(addr); printk("\n"); with a single non-interleavable in dmesg printk("... %pSR\n", (void *)addr); Update documentation too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | Randy has movedRandy Dunlap2013-03-081-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | Update email address and CREDITS info. xenotime.net is defunct. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lib/vsprintf.c: add %pa format specifier for phys_addr_t typesStepan Moskovchenko2013-02-211-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the %pa format specifier for printing a phys_addr_t type and its derivative types (such as resource_size_t), since the physical address size on some platforms can vary based on build options, regardless of the native integer type. Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lib/vsprintf: update documentation to cover all of %p[Mm][FR]Andy Shevchenko2012-10-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | Acked-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vsprintf: add support of '%*ph[CDN]'Andy Shevchenko2012-07-301-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are many places in the kernel where the drivers print small buffers as a hex string. This patch adds a support of the variable width buffer to print it as a hex string with a delimiter. The idea came from Pavel Roskin here: http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/18835/17449/ Sample output of pr_info("buf[%d:%d] %*phC\n", from, len, len, &buf[from]); could be look like this: [ 0.726130] buf[51:8] e8:16:b6:ef:e3:74:45:6e [ 0.750736] buf[59:15] 31:81:b8:3f:35:49:06:ae:df:32:06:05:4a:af:55 [ 0.757602] buf[17:5] ac:16:d5:2c:ef Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vsprintf: add %pMR for Bluetooth MAC addressAndrei Emeltchenko2012-07-301-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bluetooth uses mostly LE byte order which is reversed for visual interpretation. Currently in Bluetooth in use unsafe batostr function. This is a slightly modified version of Joe's patch (sent Sat, Dec 4, 2010). Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: update printk-formats.txtAndrew Murray2011-06-151-2/+117
| | | | | | | | | This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk extended format specifiers. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* DOC: add printk-formats.txtRandy Dunlap2008-11-121-0/+35
Add printk-formats.txt so that we don't have to keep fixing the same things over and over again. <wishful thinking> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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