linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] printk: move dump stack related code to lib/dump

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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:35:05 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: move dump stack related code to
 lib/dump_stack.c

On (02/13/18 15:28), Dave Young wrote:
> 
> dump_stack related stuff should belong to lib/dump_stack.c thus move them
> there. Also conditionally compile lib/dump_stack.c since dump_stack code
> does not make sense if printk is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>


The patch also saves us some additional memory on !PRINTK configs.
For example things like this

	if (kobj->state_initialized) {
		/* do not error out as sometimes we can recover */
		printk(KERN_ERR "kobject (%p): tried to init an initialized "
		       "object, something is seriously wrong.\n", kobj);
		dump_stack();
	}

now we won't have that dump_stack() call, which does not seems to be doing
anything useful anyway when printk() is not available.

	-ss