[PATCH 2/2] coresight: perf: Use %px for printing pointers

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Jun 11 22:44:00 PDT 2025


On 11/06/25 8:14 PM, Leo Yan wrote:
> Use "%px" to print a pointer, which is better than casting the pointer
> to unsigned long and printing it with the "%lx" specifier.
> 
> Note, the printing format will be updated as 64-bit value:
> 
>   # cat /sys/devices/cs_etm/sinks/trbe0
>   0x000000003744496a

But what was it before this patch is applied ? Just wondering if
there are sysfs changes that might be visible to the user space.

> 
> This commit dismisses the following smatch warnings:
> 
>   coresight-etm-perf.c:854 etm_perf_sink_name_show() warn: argument 4 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
>   coresight-etm-perf.c:946 etm_perf_cscfg_event_show() warn: argument 4 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> index f1551c08ecb20ebd7feab82dbaee3176e6bcc999..f677c08233ba1a28b277674662c6e6db904873dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ static ssize_t etm_perf_sink_name_show(struct device *dev,
>  	struct dev_ext_attribute *ea;
>  
>  	ea = container_of(dattr, struct dev_ext_attribute, attr);
> -	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%lx\n", (unsigned long)(ea->var));
> +	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%px\n", ea->var);
>  }
>  
>  static struct dev_ext_attribute *
> @@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ static ssize_t etm_perf_cscfg_event_show(struct device *dev,
>  	struct dev_ext_attribute *ea;
>  
>  	ea = container_of(dattr, struct dev_ext_attribute, attr);
> -	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "configid=0x%lx\n", (unsigned long)(ea->var));
> +	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "configid=0x%px\n", ea->var);
>  }
>  
>  int etm_perf_add_symlink_cscfg(struct device *dev, struct cscfg_config_desc *config_desc)
> 



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