linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 15:17:46 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:42 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 10:47 PM, John Stultz wrote:  
> > +static noinline_for_stack
> 
> I still fail to see why this should be slowed down by noinlining it.
> Care to explain?

Just that I was hesitant to change it without consensus and it follows
the convention of other similarly called functions.

> With my setup, the code below inlined will use 32 bytes of stack. The
> same as %pK case. Uninlined it obviously eats "only" 8 bytes for IP.

Maybe could we defer that discussion into a following patch, which maybe
does a similar analysis on the other noinline_for_stack usage in that
case?

(And I may be dropping the whole series here in a bit, so more debate on
it might be moot)

thanks
-john


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