[PATCH 21/22] xfs: %pF is only for function pointers
Steven Rostedt
rostedt at goodmis.org
Mon Aug 31 14:45:21 CDT 2015
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:24:25 -0500
Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> 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
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