Re: [PATCH] mellanox: mlx5: Use logging functions to reduce text ~10k/5%

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:23:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> The output changes now do not include line #, but do include the
> function offset.

I've been using a technique like this in some code with good results:

struct source_location
{
   const char *file;
   const char *func;
   const char *format;
   uint16_t line;
};
#define _LOCATION(format) ({static const source_location __location__ = {\
             __FILE__,__PRETTY_FUNCTION__,format,__LINE__};\
	     &__location__;})

void _mlx5_core_err(const struct source_location *loc,struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, ...);
#define mlx5_core_err(dev,format,...) _mlx_core_err(_LOCATION(format),dev,__VA_ARGS__)

The call site .text overhead is the about same as what you have, but
this still retains the function and line number information in
.rodata.

Jason