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From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>,
	Gilboa Davara <gilboad@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:47:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F3E79B.7030305@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921145628.GE15697@goodmis.org>

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>> if we change the interface from "print_symbol(fmt, addr)" to 
>> "print_symbol(prefix, addr, int newline)" we can simply do:
>>
>> printk(prefix);
>> printk_symbol(addr);
>> if (newline)
>> 	printk("\n");
> 
> NACK
> 
> I just wrote something that does "print_symbol(" %s)\n", addr);"
> Notice the ")" in the output.

We can just change that to "print_symbol(prefix, addr, suffix)" instead. 
The concept is basically the same (and I wasn't very fond of that 
newline argument either).

As an added bonus we stop needing an extra layer to check that the 
string passed is in the right format with a single "%s" in it.

-- 
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

"Very funny Scotty. Now beam up my clothes."

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-15 11:35 [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage Gilboa Davara
2007-09-15 13:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-15 15:15   ` Gilboa Davara
2007-09-15 18:08     ` [PATCH] " Gilboa Davara
2007-09-19  1:00       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-19 14:25         ` Paulo Marques
2007-09-21 12:45           ` Gilboa Davara
2007-09-21 14:21             ` Paulo Marques
2007-09-21 14:57               ` Gilboa Davara
2007-09-21 14:56           ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 15:47             ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2007-09-21 12:31         ` Gilboa Davara
2007-09-21 14:28       ` [PATCH] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage. (v3) Gilboa Davara
2007-09-21 16:02         ` Paulo Marques
2007-09-21 16:19           ` Gilboa Davara
2007-09-21 14:47 ` [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 14:53   ` Gilboa Davara

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