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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:17:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305670666.2915.128.camel@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD2EBAB.5080004@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:42 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 10:47 PM, John Stultz wrote:  
> > +static noinline_for_stack
> 
> I still fail to see why this should be slowed down by noinlining it.
> Care to explain?

Just that I was hesitant to change it without consensus and it follows
the convention of other similarly called functions.

> With my setup, the code below inlined will use 32 bytes of stack. The
> same as %pK case. Uninlined it obviously eats "only" 8 bytes for IP.

Maybe could we defer that discussion into a following patch, which maybe
does a similar analysis on the other noinline_for_stack usage in that
case?

(And I may be dropping the whole series here in a bit, so more debate on
it might be moot)

thanks
-john


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17 20:47 [PATCH 0/3] v5 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-17 20:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] comm: Introduce comm_lock spinlock to protect task->comm access John Stultz
2011-05-17 21:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-17 21:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-17 22:56       ` David Rientjes
2011-05-18  0:53       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-17 22:27     ` John Stultz
2011-05-18  1:02       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-17 20:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-17 21:42   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-17 21:52     ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17 22:04       ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-17 22:17         ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17 22:17     ` John Stultz [this message]
2011-05-17 20:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references John Stultz
2011-05-17 20:58   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-17 21:04   ` Michal Nazarewicz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-16 21:19 [PATCH 0/3] v4 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-16 21:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-16 21:54   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-16 23:10     ` John Stultz
2011-05-16 23:56       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17  0:11         ` John Stultz
2011-05-17  7:21         ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-18  0:32   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-12 23:02 [PATCH 0/3] v3 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-12 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:23 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] v2 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:51   ` Joe Perches
2011-05-11  1:10     ` John Stultz
2011-05-11  1:16       ` john stultz
2011-05-11  1:20       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 22:12         ` David Rientjes
2011-05-12 22:29           ` Joe Perches
2011-05-13 21:56             ` David Rientjes
2011-05-12 22:10       ` David Rientjes
2011-05-11  9:33   ` Américo Wang
2011-05-11 21:02     ` John Stultz
2011-05-12 10:43       ` Américo Wang
2011-05-12 10:45         ` Américo Wang
2011-05-12 18:01         ` John Stultz
2011-05-11 17:36   ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-11 21:04     ` John Stultz

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