Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Remove side effects from vdbg_printk -> no_printk macro

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 15:13, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > vdbg_printk when not using CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUG uses
> > > no_printk which produces no logging output but always
> > > evaluates arguments.
> > > 
> > > Change the macro to surround the no_printk call with
> > > 	do { if (0) no_printk(...); } while (0)
> > > to avoid the unnecessary argument evaluations.
> > > 
> > > $ size drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o*
> > >    text       data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > >   60918      6184     824   67926   10956
> > >   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.new
> > >   60927      6184     824   67935   1095f
> > >   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.old
> > 
> > The code size savings of this change are really small...
> 
> yup.  This is just an on-the-way patch to get
> all the no_printk uses in a state that can
> be converted more simply to a side-effect free
> mechanism.
> 
> > > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > > @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static const char *str_supported(int is_supported);
> > >  #else
> > >  static inline const char *str_supported(int is_supported) { return ""; }
> > >  #define vdbg_printk(a_dbg_level, format, arg...)        \
> > > -       no_printk(format, ##arg)
> > > +       do { if (0) no_printk(format, ##arg); } while (0)
> > >  #endif
> > 
> > And won't this change disable compile-time checking of 'format ## arg'
> > for issues?
> 
> No.  The call is still there so the compiler checks
> the format/argument matches, but eliminates the
> call and any side-effect calls from the object file.

Ok, very well.  In that case, I will ack it.

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