This function is mainly used for debugging. But for that purpose the hashed memory address of the dumped data provides no useful information at all.
Note: There are only very few locations in the kernel, where print_hex_dump is not used with KERN_DEBUG and DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS. Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fie...@magna.com> --- lib/hexdump.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c index 147133f8eb2f..52dd2fc1c8b4 100644 --- a/lib/hexdump.c +++ b/lib/hexdump.c @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ void print_hex_dump(const char *level, const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type, switch (prefix_type) { case DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS: - printk("%s%s%p: %s\n", + printk("%s%s%px: %s\n", level, prefix_str, ptr + i, linebuf); break; case DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET: -- 2.26.2 -- Roman Fietze Entwicklungsingenieur MAGNA Telemotive GmbH Breitwiesen 73347 Mühlhausen Tel.: +49 7335 18493-45