On 04/26/2012 08:25 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 24.04.2012, at 11:23, Mihai Caraman wrote: > >> mtspr/mfspr emulation prints an error message for unknown SPRs. The message >> was badly formatted displaying the hex value without 0x prefix. Use decimal >> representation in accordance with the manuals, though the Linux headers >> annoyingly use hex. >> >> Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c | 4 ++-- >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c >> index afc9154..06d12c4 100644 >> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c >> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ int kvmppc_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) >> default: >> emulated = kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr(vcpu, sprn, rt); >> if (emulated == EMULATE_FAIL) { >> - printk("mfspr: unknown spr %x\n", sprn); >> + printk("mfspr: unknown spr %u\n", sprn); > > This means that if an older kernel threw an error on let's say > SPR_VRSAVE, we got an error saying that it couldn't find "100", while Eww. Perhaps we should grep for bare %x and fix them all at once? And not let any more in... > with new kernels we'd get 256. However, we don't have any indication > if we're on an old or new kernel, making user failures pretty hard to > debug. > > So either we change the message to hex always, with 0x prefixed, or > we rephrase it to give us some indication if the user is running a > patched kernel. How about: printk("mfspr: unknown spr %u (dec)\n", sprn); Or if we just care about having some sort of marker that those familiar with the history will understand, and don't want something nicer-looking that doesn't make it look like appending (dec) should be normal practice: printk("mfspr: unknown spr #%u\n", sprn); -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html