Commit 5e4ee7b1 authored by Martin Kletzander's avatar Martin Kletzander Committed by Linus Torvalds

printk: synchronize %p formatting documentation

Move all pointer-formatting documentation to one place in the code and one
place in the documentation instead of keeping it in three places with
different level of completeness.  Documentation/printk-formats.txt has
detailed information about each modifier, docstring above pointer() has
short descriptions of them (as that is the function dealing with %p) and
docstring above vsprintf() is removed as redundant.  Both docstrings in
the code that were modified are updated with a reminder of updating the
documentation upon any further change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3e406b1d
......@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ Raw buffer as an escaped string:
If field width is omitted the 1 byte only will be escaped.
Raw buffer as a hex string:
%*ph 00 01 02 ... 3f
%*phC 00:01:02: ... :3f
%*phD 00-01-02- ... -3f
......@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ UUID/GUID addresses:
Passed by reference.
dentry names:
%pd{,2,3,4}
%pD{,2,3,4}
......@@ -256,6 +258,8 @@ struct va_format:
va_list *va;
};
Implements a "recursive vsnprintf".
Do not use this feature without some mechanism to verify the
correctness of the format string and va_list arguments.
......@@ -284,6 +288,31 @@ bitmap and its derivatives such as cpumask and nodemask:
Passed by reference.
Network device features:
%pNF 0x000000000000c000
For printing netdev_features_t.
Passed by reference.
Command from struct task_struct
%pT ls
For printing executable name excluding path from struct
task_struct.
Passed by reference.
Ignored argument:
%n %n
The argument passed will be ignored. In other words, literal "%n" will
be in the output and the argument will be considered for next format
specifier.
Thank you for your cooperation and attention.
......
......@@ -1448,6 +1448,9 @@ int kptr_restrict __read_mostly;
* - 'Cn' For a clock, it prints the name (Common Clock Framework) or address
* (legacy clock framework) of the clock
* - 'Cr' For a clock, it prints the current rate of the clock
* - 'n' For ignored argument
*
* ** Please update also Documentation/printk-formats.txt when making changes **
*
* Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
* function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
......@@ -1812,40 +1815,13 @@ int format_decode(const char *fmt, struct printf_spec *spec)
* @args: Arguments for the format string
*
* This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions:
* %pS output the name of a text symbol with offset
* %ps output the name of a text symbol without offset
* %pF output the name of a function pointer with its offset
* %pf output the name of a function pointer without its offset
* %pB output the name of a backtrace symbol with its offset
* %pR output the address range in a struct resource with decoded flags
* %pr output the address range in a struct resource with raw flags
* %pb output the bitmap with field width as the number of bits
* %pbl output the bitmap as range list with field width as the number of bits
* %pM output a 6-byte MAC address with colons
* %pMR output a 6-byte MAC address with colons in reversed order
* %pMF output a 6-byte MAC address with dashes
* %pm output a 6-byte MAC address without colons
* %pmR output a 6-byte MAC address without colons in reversed order
* %pI4 print an IPv4 address without leading zeros
* %pi4 print an IPv4 address with leading zeros
* %pI6 print an IPv6 address with colons
* %pi6 print an IPv6 address without colons
* %pI6c print an IPv6 address as specified by RFC 5952
* %pIS depending on sa_family of 'struct sockaddr *' print IPv4/IPv6 address
* %piS depending on sa_family of 'struct sockaddr *' print IPv4/IPv6 address
* %pU[bBlL] print a UUID/GUID in big or little endian using lower or upper
* case.
* %*pE[achnops] print an escaped buffer
* %*ph[CDN] a variable-length hex string with a separator (supports up to 64
* bytes of the input)
* %pC output the name (Common Clock Framework) or address (legacy clock
* framework) of a clock
* %pCn output the name (Common Clock Framework) or address (legacy clock
* framework) of a clock
* %pCr output the current rate of a clock
* %n is ignored
* %p* is handled by pointer()
*
* See pointer() or Documentation/printk-formats.txt for more
* extensive description.
*
* ** Please update Documentation/printk-formats.txt when making changes **
* ** Please update the documentation in both places when making changes **
*
* The return value is the number of characters which would
* be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment