Introduce the free_layer() routine: it is the one that actually frees memory
after a grace period has elapsed.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical
section.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Do some code factorization in the return code analysis.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a trivial patch that renames:
. alloc_layer to get_from_free_list since it idr_pre_get that actually
allocates memory.
. free_layer to move_to_free_list since memory is not actually freed there.
This makes things more clear for the next patches.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All ratelimit user use same jiffies and burst params, so some messages
(callbacks) will be lost.
For example:
a call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1)
b call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) before the 5*HZ timeout of a, then b will
will be supressed.
- rewrite __ratelimit, and use a ratelimit_state as parameter. Thanks for
hints from andrew.
- Add WARN_ON_RATELIMIT, update rcupreempt.h
- remove __printk_ratelimit
- use __ratelimit in net_ratelimit
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arjan noted that the list_head debugging is BUG'ing when it detects
corruption. By causing the box to panic immediately, we're possibly
losing some bug reports. Changing this to a WARN() should mean we at the
least start seeing reports collected at kerneloops.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that WARN() exists, we can fold some of the printk's into it.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.
The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
- free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
allocations should be made
- free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call. This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().
Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the conditional surrounding the definition of list_add() from list.h
since, if you define CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, the definition you will subsequently
pick up from lib/list_debug.c will be absolutely identical, at which point you
can remove that redundant definition from list_debug.c as well.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter, which
would represent no interest in returning the address of the end of the parsed
string.
In numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a possibly-suffixed
string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and define a character pointer to
accept the end pointer being returned by memparse() even though they have no
interest in it and promptly throw it away.
This (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in the cases
where they just don't care about getting back that end pointer.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This updates <linux/bcd.h> to define the key routines as constant
functions, which the macros will then call. Newer code can now call
bcd2bin() instead of SCREAMING BCD2BIN() TO THE FOUR WINDS.
This lets each driver shrink their codespace by using N function calls to
a single (global) copy of those routines, instead of N inlined copies of
these functions per driver.
These routines aren't used in speed-critical code. Almost all callers are
in the RTC framework. Typical per-driver savings is near 300 bytes.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack.
The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack
buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that
everyone can use it.
lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a
task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.
This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.
This patch:
Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.
Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.
The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: show irqtrace
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
softlockup: allow panic on lockup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
sdhci: highmem capable PIO routines
sg: reimplement sg mapping iterator
mmc_test: print message when attaching to card
mmc: Remove Russell as primecell mci maintainer
mmc_block: bounce buffer highmem support
sdhci: fix bad warning from commit c8b3e02
sdhci: add warnings for bad buffers in ADMA path
mmc_test: test oversized sg lists
mmc_test: highmem tests
s3cmci: ensure host stopped on machine shutdown
au1xmmc: suspend/resume implementation
s3cmci: fixes for section mismatch warnings
pxamci: trivial fix of DMA alignment register bit clearing
Remove HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO because it does not
exist anywhere in the kernel mainline sources
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This is alternative implementation of sg content iterator introduced
by commit 83e7d317... from Pierre Ossman in next-20080716. As there's
already an sg iterator which iterates over sg entries themselves, name
this sg_mapping_iterator.
Slightly edited description from the original implementation follows.
Iteration over a sg list is not that trivial when you take into
account that memory pages might have to be mapped before being used.
Unfortunately, that means that some parts of the kernel restrict
themselves to directly accesible memory just to not have to deal with
the mess.
This patch adds a simple iterator system that allows any code to
easily traverse an sg list and not have to deal with all the details.
The user can decide to consume part of the iteration. Also, iteration
can be stopped and resumed later if releasing the kmap between
iteration steps is necessary. These features are useful to implement
piecemeal sg copying for interrupt drive PIO for example.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code
remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib
remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
module: turn longs into ints for module sizes
Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
module: generic each_symbol iterator function
module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
textsearch algorithms can be loaded, make the code depend
on CONFIG_MODULES instead of CONFIG_KMOD.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper().
It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error
information.
BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of
call_usermodehelper() to callers, but
commit 5f123fbd80
"[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special
handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it
from the block class.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Optimize various places where a pointer to the cpumask_of_cpu value
will result in reducing stack pressure.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ftrace: do not trace library functions
ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions
ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP
ftrace: fix merge buglet
make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions.
We've already got a sizable list of exceptions:
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
# Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
# Also do not profile any debug utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg
endif
... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed
up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing
hard to debug lockups.
So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by
default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes
anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id()
and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup:
calling anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130
initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
[ hard hang ]
So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
PCI: handle pci_name() being const
PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
...
Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (102 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related build errors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix bogus sym_que_entry re-implementation of container_of
[SCSI] scsi_cmnd.h: remove double inclusion of linux/blkdev.h
[SCSI] make struct scsi_{host,target}_type static
[SCSI] fix locking in host use of blk_plug_device()
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup external header file
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup code in zfcp_erp.c
[SCSI] zfcp: zfcp_fsf cleanup.
[SCSI] zfcp: consolidate sysfs things into one file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_aux.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_scsi.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Move status accessors from zfcp to SCSI include file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Small QDIO cleanups
[SCSI] zfcp: Adapter reopen for large number of unsolicited status
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix error checking for ELS ADISC requests
[SCSI] zfcp: wait until adapter is finished with ERP during auto-port
[SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver
[SCSI] sg: Add target reset support
[SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
[SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h
...
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (61 commits)
ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocation
ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernel
ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem
ext4: Enable delalloc by default.
ext4: delayed allocation i_blocks fix for stat
ext4: fix delalloc i_disksize early update issue
ext4: Handle page without buffers in ext4_*_writepage()
ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc
ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc
mm: Add range_cont mode for writeback
ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling
percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set
ext4: Add delayed allocation support in data=writeback mode
vfs: add hooks for ext4's delayed allocation support
jbd2: Remove data=ordered mode support using jbd buffer heads
ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2
jbd2: Implement data=ordered mode handling via inodes
vfs: export filemap_fdatawrite_range()
ext4: Fix lock inversion in ext4_ext_truncate()
ext4: Invert the locking order of page_lock and transaction start
...
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity
of each data sector. crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing
I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Delayed allocation need to check free blocks at every write time.
percpu_counter_read_positive() is not quit accurate. delayed
allocation need a more accurate accounting, but using
percpu_counter_sum_positive() is frequently is quite expensive.
This patch added a new function to update center counter when sum
per-cpu counter, to increase the accurate rate for next
percpu_counter_read() and require less calling expensive
percpu_counter_sum().
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For fsm text search, handle case insensitive parameter as -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for case insensitive search to Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for case insensitive search to Boyer-Moore algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The function textsearch_prepare has a new flag to support case
insensitive searching.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
They print out a pointer in symbolic format, if possible (ie using
symbolic KALLSYMS information). The '%pS' format is for regular direct
pointers (which can point to data or code and that you find on the stack
during backtraces etc), while '%pF' is for C function pointer types.
On most architectures, the two mean exactly the same thing, but some
architectures use an indirect pointer for C function pointers, where the
function pointer points to a function descriptor (which in turn contains
the actual pointer to the code). The '%pF' code automatically does the
appropriate function descriptor dereference on such architectures.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nadia Derbey