linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-graph-tracer: strip ending newlines on comments

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Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:48:04 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-graph-tracer: strip ending newlines
	on comments


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> Impact: trivial output improvement
> 
> Ending newlines are appended automatically on comments by the function graph tracer
> because the newlines needs to be placed after the "*/" characters.
> So if the user puts an ending whitespace, we want to strip it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

applied to tip/tracing/function-graph-tracer, thanks Frederic!

> @@ -584,6 +585,11 @@ print_graph_comment(struct print_entry *trace, struct trace_seq *s,
>  				return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
>  		}
>  
> +	/* Strip ending newline on the comment */
> +	len = strlen(trace->buf);
> +	if (trace->buf[len - 1] == '\n')
> +		trace->buf[len - 1] = '\0';
> +

Hm, dont we know the length of the buffer already, so that we could avoid 
the strlen() overhead?

	Ingo
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