[PATCH] bug: Use normal relative pointers in 'struct bug_entry'

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue May 10 03:38:13 PDT 2022


On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> With CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS, the addr/file relative
> pointers are calculated weirdly: based on the beginning of the bug_entry
> struct address, rather than their respective pointer addresses.
> 
> Make the relative pointers less surprising to both humans and tools by
> calculating them the normal way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-bug.h |  4 ++--

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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