Hello I've just changed %09lx to %09pK on my driver code to hide the address, but I faced compiler error. The %9pK without 0 worked. Is there restriction on %pK which does now allow %0 ? I've wondered whether I did wrong or it is a printk problem. To show easily I tried to add pr_info("%09pK\n", nodemask); in page_alloc.c Then here's what I did. $ ARCH=x86 make x86_64_defconfig ; make mm/page_alloc.o # # No change to .config # CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh DESCEND objtool INSTALL libsubcmd_headers CC mm/page_alloc.o In file included from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:22:0, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:87, from ./include/linux/bug.h:5, from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5, from ./include/linux/mm.h:6, from mm/page_alloc.c:19: mm/page_alloc.c: In function ‘__alloc_pages’: ./include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: error: '0' flag used with ‘%p’ gnu_printf format [-Werror=format=] #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */ ^ ./include/linux/printk.h:427:11: note: in definition of macro ‘printk_index_wrap’ _p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \ ^ ./include/linux/printk.h:528:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘printk’ printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__) ^ ./include/linux/kern_levels.h:14:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_SOH’ #define KERN_INFO KERN_SOH "6" /* informational */ ^ ./include/linux/printk.h:528:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_INFO’ printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__) ^ mm/page_alloc.c:5564:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘pr_info’ pr_info("%09pK\n", nodemask); ^ Jaewon Kim