Re: [PATCH 21/22] xfs: %pF is only for function pointers

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:24:25 -0500
Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> > Can you please look into why this change broke the tracing output
> > on x86-64 - if there is no obvious/easy fix for it, then I'm simply
> > going to revert it because having the tracing work correctly on
> > x86-64 is far more important to us than ppc64 or ia64....
> 
> It looks like the cause is that TP_printk() is not really printk() -- it 
> actually passes the format to userspace which has its own, not 100% 
> compatible implementation pretty_print() in tools/lib/traceevent/event-
> parse.c.  %pf in that function behaves like %ps in the kernel, and %ps is 
> absent.
> 

We can fix that with adding %ps to the traceevent library.

-- Steve