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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] seq_file: provide an analogue of print_hex_dump()
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:54:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140830225407.GF7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408957395-404-2-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:03:11PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The new seq_hex_dump() is a complete analogue of print_hex_dump().
> 
> We have few users of this functionality already. It allows to reduce their
> codebase.

I really don't like the stack footprint.

> +	unsigned char linebuf[32 * 3 + 2 + 32 + 1];

... and extra copying for no good reason.  Why not check that we have
enough space in buffer and generate directly into it?  See what e.g.
seq_escape() is doing...

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-30 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-25  9:03 [PATCH v3 0/5] fs/seq_file: introduce seq_hex_dump() helper Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-25  9:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] seq_file: provide an analogue of print_hex_dump() Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-30 22:54   ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-09-01  8:36     ` Andy Shevchenko
2014-09-01  8:58       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-09-01  9:09         ` Andy Shevchenko
2014-09-01  9:25           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-09-01 10:15             ` Andy Shevchenko
2014-09-01 10:59               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-09-01 11:33                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2014-09-01 11:49                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-09-01 11:53                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-25  9:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] saa7164: convert to seq_hex_dump() Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-25  9:03 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] crypto: qat - use seq_hex_dump() to dump buffers Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-25  9:03 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] parisc: " Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-26 19:36   ` Helge Deller
2014-08-25  9:03 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] [S390] zcrypt: " Andy Shevchenko
2014-08-27 13:26   ` Ingo Tuchscherer

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