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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenbus: Neaten xenbus_va_dev_error
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:14:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a52ce1c-d570-ce1d-16a5-e4785bcef95f@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486569942.27834.15.camel@perches.com>

On 02/08/2017 11:05 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 10:33 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 02/08/2017 06:33 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> This function error patch can be simplified, so do so.
>>>
>>> Remove fail: label and somewhat obfuscating, used once "error_path"
>>> function.
> btw: I left it alone, but likely
>
> #define PRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE 4096
>
> is probably excessive as the maximum printk
> buffer is 1024.
>
> The xenbus_write might be longer though so
> maybe it's OK to use 4096, but there is some
> inequivalence there.
>

xenbus_write() handles writes up to 4K. However we are filling the
buffer with sprintf() which I assume is limited to 1K too so it indeed
doesn't seem useful to have PRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE set to 4.

-boris


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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08 11:33 [PATCH] xenbus: Neaten xenbus_va_dev_error Joe Perches
2017-02-08 15:33 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-02-08 16:05   ` Joe Perches
2017-02-08 17:14     ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-02-08 18:20       ` Joe Perches

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