linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: quota: Use quota_err and use %pf to reduce code size

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Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:09:27 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: quota: Use quota_err and use %pf to reduce code size

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 12:15 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 03-11-14 20:04:41, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Use more standard logging style and remove __func__ passed
> > to quota_err.
> > 
> > Remove the quota_error macro, rename __quota_error to quota_err.
> > Add %pf and __builtin_return_address(0) instead of __func__
[]
> Changing
> __func__ to __builtin_return_address(0) is mostly pointless. OK, saves you
> 600 bytes but quota isn't really aimed at embedded systems and it reduces
> usefullness of the message because of inlining.

That doesn't make any sense to me.
__quota_error or quota_err is specifically not inlined.
It's EXPORT_SYMBOL.

>  Adding '\n' at the end of
> messages instead of doing it automatically in quota_error() is also IMO
> pointless churn (there are other error reporting functions in kernel which
> do this so it's not like we have a consensus on this).

Fewer and fewer


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