linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kobject_add: use constant strings directly as fmt strings

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:36 +0800
From:	"rae l" <crquan@...il.com>
To:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>, "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject_add: use constant strings directly as fmt strings

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:
> Not that we should be able to measure it, but it should save some
> cycles parsing the format character and retrieving the string pointer
> from the stack, yes.

I'm sure it does work, one another as:

*** drivers/net/iseries_veth.c:
veth_probe_one[1088]           if (0 != kobject_add(&port->kobject,
&dev->dev.kobj, "veth_port"))

>> so if the string is constant, why not use it directly as the fmt string?
>
> It should be fine for strings, where you can be sure they can never
> contain a '%', sure.
And I have searched all places kobject_add called, only these two
places in block/blk-sysfs.c
and block/elevator.c have constant strings. So this patch is the whole
kobject_add constant string
optmization patch.

>
> Thanks,
> Kay

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