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

Janani Ravichandran
2016-07-20T14:41:36Z

> 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.

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?

Janani.