linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, printk: introduce new format string for flags

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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 23:03:19 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@...il.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, printk: introduce new format string for flags

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:15:45PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 07:38 PM, yalin wang wrote:
> >that’s all, see cpumask_pr_args(masks) macro,
> >it also use macro and  %*pb  to print cpu mask .
> >i think this method is not very complex to use .
> 
> Well, one also has to write the appropriate translation tables.
> 
> >search source code ,
> >there is lots of printk to print flag into hex number :
> >$ grep -n  -r 'printk.*flag.*%x’  .
> >it will be great if this flag string print is generic.
> 
> I think it can always be done later, this is an internal API. For now we
> just have 3 quite generic flags, so let's not over-engineer things right
> now.
> 

As long as it is never used in the TP_printk() part of a tracepoint. As soon
as it is, trace-cmd and perf will update parse-events to handle that
parameter, and as soon as that is done, it becomes a userspace ABI.

Just be warned.

-- Steve

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