Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a new field to struct shrinker

Michal Hocko
2016-07-20T14:54:19Z

On Wed 20-07-16 20:11:09, Janani Ravichandran wrote:
>
> > On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon 11-07-16 10:12:51, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >>
> >> What mechanism do you have in mind for obtaining the name,
> >> Michal?
> >
> > Not sure whether tracing infrastructure allows printk like %ps. If not
> > then it doesn't sound too hard to add.
>
> It does allow %ps. Currently what is being printed is the function symbol
> of the callback using %pF. I’d like to know why %pF is used instead of
> %ps in this case.

>From a quick look into the code %pF should be doing the same thing as
%ps in the end. Some architectures just need some magic to get a proper
address of the function.

> Michal, just to make sure I understand you correctly, do you mean that we
> could infer the names of the shrinkers by looking at the names of their callbacks?

Yes, %ps can then be used for the name of the shrinker structure
(assuming it is available).

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs