linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: reduce total stack usage of slab_err & object

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Message-Id: <1222789785.23159.27.camel@calx>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:49:45 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>,
	penberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: reduce total stack usage of slab_err & object_err


On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:38 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Richard Kennedy wrote:
> > reduce the total stack usage of slab_err & object_err.
> > 
> > Introduce a new function to display a simple slab bug message, and call
> > this when vprintk is not needed.
> 
> You could simply get rid of the 100 byte buffer by using vprintk? Same method
> could be used elsewhere in the kernel and does not require additional
> functions. Compiles, untestted.

I'm fixing a bunch of these in the kernel right now.

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