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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ring-buffer: fix printk output
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:55:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428225541.9ca61a12.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090429054359.GA6148@elte.hu>

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:43:59 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:48:19 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > -	printk_once(KERN_WARNING "Tracing recursion: depth[%d]:"
> > > +	printk_once(KERN_WARNING "Tracing recursion: depth[%ld]:"
> > 
> > hrmph.  I didn't know that printk_once() existed, and I should 
> > have known.  I wonder how many other people don't know.
> 
> Was posted to linux-next@vger.kernel.org.

Well no wonder I didn't know about it.

> > Should it use unlikely()?
> 
> Not really. Any printk_once() usage site is an 'unlikely' branch 
> already in most cases. Double unlikely just spreads the instructions 
> needlessly. The condition that _leads_ to a printk_once() should be 
> an unlikely().
> 

OK.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29  4:48 [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] tracing/splice/ringbuffer: updates for tip Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  4:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] tracing: convert ftrace_dump spinlocks to raw Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  5:07   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  5:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29  4:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] tracing: fix ref count in splice pages Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  4:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] tracing: only add splice page if entries exist Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  4:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] tracing: have splice only copy full pages Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  4:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] ring-buffer: fix printk output Steven Rostedt
2009-04-29  5:20   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  5:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29  5:55       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-29  6:09         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29  6:20           ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  7:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29  7:41               ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  9:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 15:09                   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 19:45                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 19:52                       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 20:11                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 16:19             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-29 20:15               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29  6:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] tracing/splice/ringbuffer: updates for tip Ingo Molnar

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