Quoting Rasmus Villemoes (2021-03-24 15:21:34)
> On 24/03/2021 20.11, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Rasmus Villemoes (2021-03-24 02:57:13)
>
> >>
> >> Is there any reason you didn't just make b an optional flag that could
> >> be specified with or without R? I suppose the parsing is more difficult
> >> with several orthogonal flags (see escaped_string()), but it's a little
> >> easier to understand. Dunno, it's not like we're gonna think of 10 other
> >> things that could be printed for a symbol, so perhaps it's fine.
> >>
> >
> > I think I follow. So %pSb or %pSRb? If it's easier to understand then
> > sure. I was trying to avoid checking another character beyond fmt[1] but
> > it should be fine if fmt[1] is already 'R'.
> >
>
> I don't know. On the one hand, it seems sensible to allow such "flag"
> modifiers to appear independently and in any order. Because what if some
> day we think of some other property of the symbol we might want to
> provide access to via a "z" flag; when to allow all combinations of the
> R, b and z functionality we'd have to use four more random letters to
> stand for various combinations of those flags. On the other hand,
> vsprintf.c is already a complete wild west of odd conventions for
> %p<foo>, and it's not like symbol_string() gets extended every other
> release, and I can certainly understand the desire to keep the parsing
> of fmt minimal. So 'r' to mean 'Rb' is ok by me if you prefer that.
I'm inclined to use %pSb and %pSRb. The code looks to simpler and I
suppose we can worry about different ordering/combination problems if it
comes to it.
---8<---
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 41ddc353ebb8..0e94cba5ba20 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -968,6 +968,8 @@ char *symbol_string(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
if (*fmt == 'B')
sprint_backtrace(sym, value);
+ else if (*fmt == 'S' && (fmt[1] == 'b' || (fmt[1] == 'R' && fmt[2] == 'b')))
+ sprint_symbol_stacktrace(sym, value);
else if (*fmt != 's')
sprint_symbol(sym, value);
else
