Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/process: Constify the number of insns printed by show instructions functions.

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

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 01:47:33PM +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>

> ---
>  v3: no change
>  v2: no change
> 
>  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 2a39f7aca846..7d86b4f7949e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -1261,17 +1261,16 @@ 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))
> @@ -1304,11 +1303,11 @@ static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  void show_user_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	unsigned long pc;
> -	int n = instructions_to_print;
> +	int n = NR_INSN_TO_PRINT;
>  	struct seq_buf s;
>  	char buf[96]; /* enough for 8 times 9 + 2 chars */
>  
> -	pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
> +	pc = regs->nip - (NR_INSN_TO_PRINT * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
>  
>  	seq_buf_init(&s, buf, sizeof(buf));
>  
> -- 
> 2.13.3
> 

-- 
Murilo