linux-kernel - Re: [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output

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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:34:30 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:30:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> > Yup, but not only that, this kind of trick hides associativity between
> > VM_ constant and mnemonic, so on changes one would have to figure out
> > which position some flag has in this foo[] array, so I vote for not
> > use it :-)
> 
> Well you could do
> 
> struct {
> 	char x[2];
> } y[] = {
> 	[CLOG2(VM_DONTEXPAND)] =	{ 'd', 'e' },
> 	[CLOG2(VM_ACCOUNT)] =		{ 'a', 'c' },
> 	[CLOG2(VM_NORESERVE)] =		{ 'n', 'r' },
> };
> 
> 	...
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < BITS_PER_LONG; i++) {
> 		if (flags & (1 << i))
> 			seq_printf("%c%c ", y[i][0], y[i][1]);
> 	}
> 
> where CLOG2() is extracted from the guts of ilog2().
> 
> I'll stop now :)

Yup, this one will be a wy better. Letme try it out :)
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