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Message-ID: <20130110113616.GG13304@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:36:16 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add decoder for GFP masks to tools.

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:24:13PM -0800, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> I needed to decode some gfp_masks to debug an oom-killer invocation, and wrote
> this tool to avoid doing the decoding manually.
> 
> Bad things about this: slightly hacky use of code intended for use with ftrace,
> splitting linux/gfp.h into 2 parts.
> 
> Good things: No additional places need modification to keep the decoder up to
> date, no mistakes from manual gfp_mask decoding.
> 

Any particular reason you did not use scripts/gfp-translate?

$ bash ./scripts/gfp-translate 0x1000d0
Source: /home/mel/git-public/linux-2.6
Parsing: 0x1000d0
#define ___GFP_WAIT		0x10
#define ___GFP_IO		0x40
#define ___GFP_FS		0x80
#define ___GFP_KMEMCG		0x100000

Script is dumb as rocks, requires access to the source code and does not
translate flag combinations into something like GFP_KERNEL but it's usually
sufficient. I'm not pushed either way but if you want to push your tool
then the patch should also delete scripts/gfp-translate.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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