Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for generic FourCCs by extending %p4cc

[Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>]

> On 13 Mar 2025, at 4:18 PM, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> Adding Kees into Cc to resolve how to get this patch into the mainline.
> 
> On Thu 2025-03-13 09:13:23, Aditya Garg wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 Mar 2025, at 2:27 PM, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 08:53:28AM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
>>>>>> On 13 Mar 2025, at 2:19 PM, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 07:26:05AM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 13 Mar 2025, at 12:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 07:14:36PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 12 Mar 2025, at 9:05 PM, Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025, at 13:03, Aditya Garg wrote:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I don't have a strong opinion either way: for SMC I just need to print
>>>>>>>>> FourCC keys for debugging / information in a few places.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm preparing the SMC driver for upstreaming again (after a two year delay :-()
>>>>>>>>> and was just going to use macros to print the SMC FourCC keys similar to
>>>>>>>>> DRM_MODE_FMT/DRM_MODE_ARG for now to keep the series smaller and revisit
>>>>>>>>> the topic later.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Right now I have these in my local tree (only compile tested so far):
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> #define SMC_KEY_FMT "%c%c%c%c (0x%08x)"
>>>>>>>>> #define SMC_KEY_ARG(k) (k)>>24, (k)>>16, (k)>>8, (k), (k)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That seems to be a nice alternative, which I guess Thomas was also suggesting.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I don't think it's "nice". Each of the approaches has pros and cons.
>>>>>>> You can start from bloat-o-meter here and compare it with your %p extension.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Also, can you show the bloat-o-meter output for the vsprintf.c?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here are your outputs:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> For appletbdrm:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> aditya@MacBook:~/linux$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter $P4 $MACRO
>>>>>> add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 64/-19 (45)
>>>>>> Function                                     old     new   delta
>>>>>> appletbdrm_read_response                     395     459     +64
>>>>>> appletbdrm_probe                            1786    1767     -19
>>>>>> Total: Before=13418, After=13463, chg +0.34%
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is enough, no need to repeat this for every parameter.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> For vsprintf:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> aditya@MacBook:~/linux$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter $OLD $NEW
>>>>>> add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 220/0 (220)
>>>>>> Function                                     old     new   delta
>>>>>> fourcc_string                                479     699    +220
>>>>>> Total: Before=26454, After=26674, chg +0.83%
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, we get +220 bytes vs +43 bytes. It means if we found 5+ users, it worth
>>>>> doing.
>>>> 
>>>> Will it also depend upon the number of times it's being used? In appletbdrm,
>>>> it is being used 3 times. Probably more in Asahi SMC.
>>> 
>>> Right, it depends on the usage count. Also on different architectures it may
>>> give different results. On 32-bit it probably gives better statistics.
>> 
>> Best to go ahead with vsprintf then. Petr, are you still there?
> 
> I am here but there were many other things in the queue ;-)
> 
> I do not have strong opinion. I am not familiar with the FourCC
> format and it looks like a magic to me. But it seems that it makes
> sense for the users.
> 
> I personally find the %pcX modifiers a bit less hacky than
> the two macros SMC_KEY_FMT/SMC_KEY_ARG.
> 
> So I am fine with this patch:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> 
> 
> Now, the question is how to get this patch into the mainline.
> 
> Normally, it would make perfect sense to queue it via the DRM tree
> because drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/appletbdrm.c is a new driver...
> 
> But this time there is a conflicting patchset which is reworking
> the entire lib/test_printf.c file, see
> 20250307-printf-kunit-convert-v6-0-4d85c361c241@gmail.com

Link seems to be broken
> And it will likely be ready for the next merge window as well.
> I am going to review it right away.
> 
> It is even more complicated because the patchset converting
> the printf test module to KUNIT depends on another changes
> in Kees' tree (moving kunit test modules to lib/tests/).
> So it might be easier when it goes via Kees' tree.
> 
> And it might be easier when even this patch goes via Kees' tree.
> 
> My proposal:
> 
> I suggest to separate the fourcc_pointer() test update
> to a separate patch and add it later after the merge window
> when things settle down.
> 
> I mean to send the vsprintf.c, checkpatch.pl, and doc update
> via DRM tree together with the new appletbdrm.c driver.

Sounds good. At least we can get it working. I’ll make sure the self
tests get updated once 6.15-rc1 gets released, or Kees can share
his tree, where I can add the tests as well.

I’ll send a v2 so that Thomas can take them up.
> 
> And update the selftest later when both DRM tree and KUNIT
> update reaches mainline.
> 
> How does that sound, please?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Petr