On Fri 2024-08-16 09:44:10, Ira Weiny wrote: > The use of struct range in the CXL subsystem is growing. In particular, > the addition of Dynamic Capacity devices uses struct range in a number > of places which are reported in debug and error messages. > > To wit requiring the printing of the start/end fields in each print > became cumbersome. Dan Williams mentions in [1] that it might be time > to have a print specifier for struct range similar to struct resource > > A few alternatives were considered including '%pn' for 'print raNge' but > %par follows that struct range is most often used to store a range of > physical addresses. So use '%par' for 'print address range'. > > --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst > +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst > @@ -231,6 +231,20 @@ width of the CPU data path. > > Passed by reference. > > +Struct Range > +------------ > + > +:: > + > + %par [range 0x60000000-0x6fffffff] or It seems that it is always 64-bit. It prints: struct range { u64 start; u64 end; }; > + [range 0x0000000060000000-0x000000006fffffff] > + > +For printing struct range. A variation of printing a physical address is to > +print the value of struct range which are often used to hold a physical address > +range. > + > +Passed by reference. > + > DMA address types dma_addr_t > ---------------------------- > > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c > index 2d71b1115916..c132178fac07 100644 > --- a/lib/vsprintf.c > +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c > @@ -1140,6 +1140,39 @@ char *resource_string(char *buf, char *end, struct resource *res, > return string_nocheck(buf, end, sym, spec); > } > > +static noinline_for_stack > +char *range_string(char *buf, char *end, const struct range *range, > + struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt) > +{ > +#define RANGE_PRINTK_SIZE 16 > +#define RANGE_DECODED_BUF_SIZE ((2 * sizeof(struct range)) + 4) > +#define RANGE_PRINT_BUF_SIZE sizeof("[range - ]") I think that it should be "[range -]" > + char sym[RANGE_DECODED_BUF_SIZE + RANGE_PRINT_BUF_SIZE]; > + char *p = sym, *pend = sym + sizeof(sym); > + > + static const struct printf_spec str_spec = { > + .field_width = -1, > + .precision = 10, > + .flags = LEFT, > + }; Is this really needed? What about using "default_str_spec" instead? > + static const struct printf_spec range_spec = { > + .base = 16, > + .field_width = RANGE_PRINTK_SIZE, > + .precision = -1, > + .flags = SPECIAL | SMALL | ZEROPAD, > + }; > + > + *p++ = '['; > + p = string_nocheck(p, pend, "range ", str_spec); > + p = number(p, pend, range->start, range_spec); > + *p++ = '-'; > + p = number(p, pend, range->end, range_spec); > + *p++ = ']'; > + *p = '\0'; > + > + return string_nocheck(buf, end, sym, spec); > +} > + > static noinline_for_stack > char *hex_string(char *buf, char *end, u8 *addr, struct printf_spec spec, > const char *fmt) Also add a selftest into lib/test_printf.c, please. Best Regards, Petr