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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/22] parisc: %pF is only for function pointers
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:11:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426162282.2146.77.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426130037-17956-14-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com>

On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Use %pS for actual addresses, otherwise you'll get bad output
> on arches like ppc64 where %pF expects a function descriptor.  Even on
> other architectures, refrain from setting a bad example that people
> copy.

Are you sure about this?  Parisc64 is a function description
architecture.  There may be a misunderstanding about what
__builtin_return_address(0) is supposed to return, but I'm certain the
person who added the code thought it returned a function pointer, which
on parisc64 would be a descriptor.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-12  3:13 [PATCH 01/22] mm/memblock.c: %pF is only for function pointers Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 02/22] netfilter: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 03/22] sound: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 04/22] md/bcache: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 05/22] PM / AVS: SmartReflex: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:09   ` Kevin Hilman
2015-03-12 18:09     ` Kevin Hilman
2015-03-12 18:14     ` Nishanth Menon
2015-03-12 18:14       ` Nishanth Menon
2015-03-12 18:16       ` Jiri Kosina
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 06/22] random: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 07/22] alpha: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 08/22] ARM: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 19:51   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-12 19:51     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 09/22] blackfin: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 10/22] microblaze: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 11/22] powerpc/32: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 12/22] sparc: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:47   ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12 18:47     ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12 18:49     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:49       ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:54       ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12 18:54         ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 13/22] x86: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 14/22] parisc: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 12:11   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2015-03-12 14:43     ` John David Anglin
2015-03-12 16:14     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:04       ` James Bottomley
2015-03-12 19:48         ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 15/22] drm: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-13  9:17   ` Daniel Vetter
2015-03-13  9:17     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 16/22] mfd: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  9:03   ` Lee Jones
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 17/22] esp_scsi: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 11:23   ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 18/22] usb: gadget: serial: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  4:45   ` Felipe Balbi
2015-03-12  5:27     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 15:38       ` Felipe Balbi
2015-03-12 12:36   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-12 16:43     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 15:51   ` Fabio Estevam
2015-03-12 16:40     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 16:43       ` Fabio Estevam
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 19/22] jfs: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 14:16   ` [Jfs-discussion] " Dave Kleikamp
2015-03-12 16:09     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 20/22] pstore: " Scott Wood
2015-06-16 22:02   ` Kees Cook
2015-06-16 22:37     ` Anton Vorontsov
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 21/22] xfs: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13   ` Scott Wood
2015-08-31  8:06   ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-31  8:06     ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-31 19:24     ` Scott Wood
2015-08-31 19:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-31 19:45         ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-31 19:58         ` Scott Wood
2015-08-31 20:05           ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-31 20:05             ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 22/22] tracing: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 20:23   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 20:25     ` Scott Wood

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