From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:15:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7483.1137554152@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:05:27 CDT." <200601172208_MC3-1-B612-EE86@compuserve.com>
Chuck Ebbert (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:05:27 -0500) wrote:
>In-Reply-To: <200601171601.52995.ak@suse.de>
>
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 at 16:01:52 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:01, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>
>> > I've often found symbolsize useful. Not when looking at an oops
>> > from my own machine. But when looking at an oops posted on LKML,
>> > from someone who most likely has a different .config and different
>> > compiler, different optimization and different inlining from mine.
>> > symbolsize is a good clue as to how close their kernel is to the
>> > one I've got built on my machine, how likely guesses I make based
>> > on mine will apply to theirs, and whereabouts in the function that
>> > it oopsed.
>>
>> Yes that is why I want it too.
>
>OK, how about this: remove the "0x" from the function size, i.e. print:
>
> kernel_symbol+0xd3/10e
>
>instead of:
>
> kernel_symbol+0xd3/0x10e
>
>This saves two characters per symbol and it should still be clear that
>the second number is hexadecimal.
>
>Does that break any tools?
Not, just CONFUSE-A-HUMAN (incorporating AMAZE-A-VOLE LTD, STUN-A-STOAT
LTD, PUZZLE-A-PUMA LTD, STARTLE-A-THOMPSON'S GAZELLE LTD,
BEWILDEREBEEST INC, DISTRACT-A-BEE). Yes, I need a life.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 3:05 [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-18 3:15 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-01-18 3:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2006-01-18 6:08 Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-17 10:13 [PATCH 0/4] compact call trace Akinobu Mita
2006-01-17 10:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output Akinobu Mita
2006-01-17 10:34 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-17 10:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-17 10:58 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-01-17 11:01 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-17 11:23 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-01-17 15:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-17 15:01 ` Andi Kleen
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