[PATCH kexec-tools v2 06/32] kdump: print mmap() offset in hex

Russell King rmk at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jun 6 09:59:13 PDT 2016


When mmap() fails, printing a large decimal number is mostly
meaningless - it's not obvious what it means.  Printing a hex number
is more obvious, because we can see whether it's over 32-bit, or not
page aligned.

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
 kdump/kdump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kdump/kdump.c b/kdump/kdump.c
index 34d2149..f34727f 100644
--- a/kdump/kdump.c
+++ b/kdump/kdump.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static void *map_addr(int fd, unsigned long size, off_t offset)
 
 	result = mmap(0, len, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, offset - map_offset);
 	if (result == MAP_FAILED) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Cannot mmap " DEV_MEM " offset: %llu size: %lu: %s\n",
+		fprintf(stderr, "Cannot mmap " DEV_MEM " offset: %#llx size: %lu: %s\n",
 			(unsigned long long)offset, size, strerror(errno));
 		exit(5);
 	}
-- 
1.9.1




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