Re: [PATCH v4] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values

Nick Alcock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dtrace
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16 Sep 2025, Kris Van Hees verbalised:

> Because alloca pointers are stored internally as offsets into the
> scratchmem area, they were printed as small integers.  They are
> now printed as actual pointer values into kernel space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <[email protected]>

So... the change is to generate real pointers for children of alloca
nodes too, and scalarize more aggressively? I don't really see what the
second part has to do with this change (and more specifically why it
didn't cause problems before now).

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