Use the %pe printk format specifier to report error pointers directly
instead of printing PTR_ERR() as a long value. This improves clarity,
produces more readable error messages.
This instance was flagged by the Coccinelle script
(misc/ptr_err_to_pe.cocci) as an opportunity to adopt %pe.
Found by: make coccicheck MODE=report M=mm/
No functional change intended
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80a6643657a60e75ddf48b4869b3e7fdc101f855.1770230135.git.chandna.sahil@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.sahil@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
pgdat->kswapd = kthread_create_on_node(kswapd, pgdat, nid, "kswapd%d", nid);
if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
/* failure at boot is fatal */
- pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d,ret=%ld\n",
- nid, PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd));
+ pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d, ret=%pe\n",
+ nid, pgdat->kswapd);
BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
} else {