[PATCH V2 2/2] arm64/mm: Standardize printing for pgtable entries

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Sep 8 21:00:05 PDT 2026


Standardize printing for pgtable entries using recently introduced generic
helper ptval_bytes_to_hex_str() in core MM which automatically enables 128
bits entries when added later.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
Changes in V2:

- Replaced pgtable level specific strings with pxd_str[] in show_pte()

 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c   | 16 ++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 75c3e463df2e..2cecf6ba6df7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ static inline unsigned long mm_to_pgd_phys(struct mm_struct *mm)
  */
 static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 {
+	char pxd_str[PTVAL_STR_MAX];
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	pgd_t *pgdp;
 	pgd_t pgd;
@@ -160,7 +161,8 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 
 	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
 	pgd = READ_ONCE(*pgdp);
-	pr_alert("[%016lx] pgd=%016llx", addr, pgd_val(pgd));
+	ptval_to_str(pxd_str, pgd_val(pgd));
+	pr_alert("[%016lx] pgd=%s", addr, pxd_str);
 
 	do {
 		p4d_t *p4dp, p4d;
@@ -173,19 +175,22 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 
 		p4dp = p4d_offset_lockless(pgdp, pgd, addr);
 		p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp);
-		pr_cont(", p4d=%016llx", p4d_val(p4d));
+		ptval_to_str(pxd_str, p4d_val(p4d));
+		pr_cont(", p4d=%s", pxd_str);
 		if (p4d_none(p4d) || p4d_bad(p4d))
 			break;
 
 		pudp = pud_offset_lockless(p4dp, p4d, addr);
 		pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
-		pr_cont(", pud=%016llx", pud_val(pud));
+		ptval_to_str(pxd_str, pud_val(pud));
+		pr_cont(", pud=%s", pxd_str);
 		if (pud_none(pud) || pud_bad(pud))
 			break;
 
 		pmdp = pmd_offset_lockless(pudp, pud, addr);
 		pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
-		pr_cont(", pmd=%016llx", pmd_val(pmd));
+		ptval_to_str(pxd_str, pmd_val(pmd));
+		pr_cont(", pmd=%s", pxd_str);
 		if (pmd_none(pmd) || pmd_bad(pmd))
 			break;
 
@@ -194,7 +199,8 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 			break;
 
 		pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
-		pr_cont(", pte=%016llx", pte_val(pte));
+		ptval_to_str(pxd_str, pte_val(pte));
+		pr_cont(", pte=%s", pxd_str);
 		pte_unmap(ptep);
 	} while(0);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 0b2d190d62c3..26f4cf7b753e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -2411,6 +2411,8 @@ int arch_set_user_pkey_access(int pkey, unsigned long init_val)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 void __check_safe_pte_update(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 {
+	char pte_str_old[PTVAL_STR_MAX];
+	char pte_str[PTVAL_STR_MAX];
 	pte_t old_pte;
 
 	old_pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
@@ -2425,15 +2427,17 @@ void __check_safe_pte_update(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 	 * (__ptep_set_access_flags safely changes valid ptes without going
 	 * through an invalid entry).
 	 */
+	ptval_to_str(pte_str, pte_val(pte));
+	ptval_to_str(pte_str_old, pte_val(old_pte));
 	VM_WARN_ONCE(!pte_young(pte),
-		     "%s: racy access flag clearing: 0x%016llx -> 0x%016llx",
-		     __func__, pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte));
+		     "%s: racy access flag clearing: %s -> %s",
+		     __func__, pte_str_old, pte_str);
 	VM_WARN_ONCE(pte_write(old_pte) && !pte_dirty(pte),
-		     "%s: racy dirty state clearing: 0x%016llx -> 0x%016llx",
-		     __func__, pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte));
+		     "%s: racy dirty state clearing: %s -> %s",
+		     __func__, pte_str_old, pte_str);
 	VM_WARN_ONCE(!pgattr_change_is_safe(pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte)),
-		     "%s: unsafe attribute change: 0x%016llx -> 0x%016llx",
-		     __func__, pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte));
+		     "%s: unsafe attribute change: %s -> %s",
+		     __func__, pte_str_old, pte_str);
 }
 #endif
 #endif
-- 
2.43.0




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