Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/process: Constify the number of insns printed by show instructions functions.

[Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com>]

Hi, Christophe.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:59:20AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> instructions_to_print var is assigned value 16 and there is no
> way to change it.
> 
> This patch replaces it by a constant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index c722ce4ca1c0..6317f2ed04ab 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -1259,17 +1259,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
>  	return last;
>  }
>  
> -static int instructions_to_print = 16;
> +#define NR_INSN_TO_PRINT	16
>  
>  static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	int i;
> -	unsigned long pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 *
> -			sizeof(int));
> +	unsigned long pc = regs->nip - (NR_INSN_TO_PRINT * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
>  
>  	printk("Instruction dump:");
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < instructions_to_print; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < NR_INSN_TO_PRINT; i++) {
>  		int instr;
>  
>  		if (!(i % 8))
> @@ -1306,9 +1305,9 @@ void show_user_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	char buf[96]; /* enough for 8 times 9 + 2 chars */
>  	int l = 0;
>  
> -	pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
> +	pc = regs->nip - (NR_INSN_TO_PRINT * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < instructions_to_print; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < NR_INSN_TO_PRINT; i++) {
>  		int instr;
>  
>  		if (!(i % 8) && (i > 0)) {
> -- 
> 2.13.3
> 

-- 
Murilo