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Message-ID: <46F3E79B.7030305@grupopie.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:47:39 +0100
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
Gilboa Davara <gilboad@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>> if we change the interface from "print_symbol(fmt, addr)" to
>> "print_symbol(prefix, addr, int newline)" we can simply do:
>>
>> printk(prefix);
>> printk_symbol(addr);
>> if (newline)
>> printk("\n");
>
> NACK
>
> I just wrote something that does "print_symbol(" %s)\n", addr);"
> Notice the ")" in the output.
We can just change that to "print_symbol(prefix, addr, suffix)" instead.
The concept is basically the same (and I wasn't very fond of that
newline argument either).
As an added bonus we stop needing an extra layer to check that the
string passed is in the right format with a single "%s" in it.
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"Very funny Scotty. Now beam up my clothes."
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