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[v6,1/5] hexdump: add a new dump prefix DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS_LOW16

Message ID 20230804091136.1177-2-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series rcu: Dump memory object info if callback function is invalid | expand

Commit Message

Leizhen (ThunderTown) Aug. 4, 2023, 9:11 a.m. UTC 
From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>

Currently, function print_hex_dump() supports three dump prefixes:
DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS and DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET. But for some
usage scenarios, they don't work perfectly. For example, dump the content
of one task's stack. In order to quickly identify a stack frame,
DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS is preferred. But printing multiple 64-bit addresses
is a bit unwise when the 'sp' value is already printed. It is redundant
and unintuitive.

For example:
dump memory at sp=ffff800080883a90:
ffff800080883a90: 80883ac0 ffff8000 3d8e936c ffffbd5b
ffff800080883aa0: 5833f000 ffff3580 00000001 00000000
ffff800080883ab0: 40299840 ffff3580 590dfa00 ffff3580
ffff800080883ac0: 80883b30 ffff8000 3d938b28 ffffbd5b
ffff800080883ad0: 40877180 ffff3580 590dfa00 ffff3580
ffff800080883ae0: 4090f600 ffff3580 80883cb0 ffff8000
ffff800080883af0: 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000
ffff800080883b00: 4090f700 ffff3580 00000001 00000000

Generally, we do not dump more than 64 KB memory. It is sufficient to
print only the lower 16 bits of the address.

dump memory at sp=ffff800080883a90:
3a90: 80883ac0 ffff8000 3d8e936c ffffbd5b
3aa0: 5833f000 ffff3580 00000001 00000000
3ab0: 40299840 ffff3580 590dfa00 ffff3580
3ac0: 80883b30 ffff8000 3d938b28 ffffbd5b
3ad0: 40877180 ffff3580 590dfa00 ffff3580
3ae0: 4090f600 ffff3580 80883cb0 ffff8000
3af0: 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000
3b00: 4090f700 ffff3580 00000001 00000000

Another benefit of adding DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS_LOW16 is that we don't have
to worry about %p outputting address as hashed value.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
---
 include/linux/printk.h | 1 +
 lib/hexdump.c          | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index 8ef499ab3c1ed2e..ccad9e8eaaf0c31 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -704,6 +704,7 @@  extern const struct file_operations kmsg_fops;
 enum {
 	DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
 	DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS,
+	DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS_LOW16,
 	DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET
 };
 extern int hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, int rowsize,
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index 06833d404398d74..247c8765cc7ca3f 100644
--- a/lib/hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/hexdump.c
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@  void print_hex_dump(const char *level, const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type,
 			printk("%s%s%p: %s\n",
 			       level, prefix_str, ptr + i, linebuf);
 			break;
+		case DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS_LOW16:
+			printk("%s%s%04lx: %s\n", level,
+			       prefix_str, 0xffff & (unsigned long)(ptr + i), linebuf);
+			break;
 		case DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
 			printk("%s%s%.8x: %s\n", level, prefix_str, i, linebuf);
 			break;