On Wed 2024-10-30 11:51:54, metux wrote:
> On 26.10.24 02:46, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > Support for the Compute Express Link (CXL) Dynamic Capacity Devices
> > (DCD) have grown a number of uses to print struct range.[1] Support for
> > a printf specifier '%pra' was being worked within a large series and has
> > garnered a number of comments and discussion.
>
> This is just printing out hex dump of a memory range, correct ?
>
> What I'm looking for quite some time is a sane way for dumping structs
> in a human readable form (field: value pairs, using their actual types
> eg. int vs string, ...).
You like to print it similar way like "gdb" or other debugging tools do.
Do I get it correctly, please?
> Any idea to do that in a generic way ?
> (potentially using debug info ?)
I am afraid that a generic solution would really need to work with
a debuginfo.
That said, there exists some generic approaches for printing various
values in the trace code, for example, see
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
Documentation/trace/events.rst
Best Regards,
Petr
