From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
jackmanb@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, ziy@nvidia.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_owner: fix %pGp format specifier argument type
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae365455-5e1e-41ef-97b4-12983eefebbf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260414075813.3425968-1-zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
On 4/14/26 09:58, Zhen Ni wrote:
> The %pGp format specifier expects an argument of type 'unsigned long *',
> but page->flags is now of type 'memdesc_flags_t' (a struct containing
> an unsigned long member 'f') after the introduction of memdesc_flags_t.
>
> Fix the type mismatch by passing &page->flags.f instead of &page->flags,
> which matches the expected type.
I think this has no visible effects as memdesc_flags_t just wraps unsigned
long, so it's not an urgent fix. Things could break if we modified
memdesc_flags_t further, or compiler/some tool got smart enough to flag the
mismath.
> Fixes: 53fbef56e07d ("mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t")
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/page_owner.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> index 8178e0be557f..2dddcb6510aa 100644
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> migratetype_names[page_mt],
> pfn >> pageblock_order,
> migratetype_names[pageblock_mt],
> - &page->flags);
> + &page->flags.f);
>
> ret += stack_depot_snprint(handle, kbuf + ret, count - ret, 0);
> if (ret >= count)
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