From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756309AbaAGBEE (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:04:04 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0047.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.47]:41972 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751373AbaAGBEC (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:04:02 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:973:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2110:2393:2559:2562:2691:2730:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4250:4321:4605:5007:6119:7652:7903:8603:10004:10400:10848:11026:11232:11658:11914:12296:12517:12519:12663:12740:13069:13071:13161:13229:13311:13357:21060,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: straw53_5ceb21d5a5320 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2611 Message-ID: <1389056635.2433.22.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/vsprintf: add %pT[C012] format specifier From: Joe Perches To: Pavel Machek Cc: Tetsuo Handa , keescook@chromium.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, jkosina@suse.cz, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:03:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20140107001604.GD24243@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <201401041126.BHJ81291.VOHLOtMFOJFQFS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <201401051215.ACJ30759.MJSHtFFFVOOOQL@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <1388945392.5808.19.camel@joe-AO722> <201401062300.GFE12908.FOQLFFJOSOMVHt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <1389029698.2433.3.camel@joe-AO722> <201401070641.HAC18733.VOFMFOLOJQSFHt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <1389047143.2433.14.camel@joe-AO722> <20140107001604.GD24243@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 01:16 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c > > > > [] > > > > > @@ -1232,7 +1248,7 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, > > > > > { > > > > > int default_width = 2 * sizeof(void *) + (spec.flags & SPECIAL ? 2 : 0); > > > > > > > > > > - if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K') { > > > > > + if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K' && *fmt != 'T') { > > > > > > > > I think this new 'T' comparison isn't necessary. > > > > > > This is needed for allowing comm_name() to accept NULL instead of current. > > > > Yeah, that's what I think isn't necessary. > > > > current is current_thread_info()->task. > > > > I think it's pretty lightweight in all arches and > > it'd be simpler/more intelligible to not use NULL. > > > > Andrew? Any opinion? Anyone else? > > Andrew was worried about all the "current" duplication, IIRC. It is in > the mail thread somewhere. And one condition in printk is price worth paying. > Pavel Hi Pavel. I'm not nacking this, just stating my view. I believe I showed how many uses of vsprintf w/ current there are. Passing NULL vs passing current as the %pT argument is I think a negligible overall size delta too. cheers, Joe