linux-kernel - [PATCH -v2 2/3] printk: Make the printk*once() variants return a value

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Message-Id: <1467671487-10344-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Date:	Tue,  5 Jul 2016 00:31:26 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -v2 2/3] printk: Make the printk*once() variants return a value

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

Have printk*once() return a bool which denotes whether the string was
printed or not so that calling code can react accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/printk.h | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index f4da695fd615..f136b22c7772 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -108,11 +108,14 @@ struct va_format {
  * Dummy printk for disabled debugging statements to use whilst maintaining
  * gcc's format checking.
  */
-#define no_printk(fmt, ...)			\
-do {						\
-	if (0)					\
-		printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);	\
-} while (0)
+#define no_printk(fmt, ...)				\
+({							\
+	do {						\
+		if (0)					\
+			printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);	\
+	} while (0);					\
+	0;						\
+})
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
 extern asmlinkage __printf(1, 2)
@@ -309,20 +312,24 @@ extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
 #define printk_once(fmt, ...)					\
 ({								\
 	static bool __print_once __read_mostly;			\
+	bool __ret_print_once = !__print_once;			\
 								\
 	if (!__print_once) {					\
 		__print_once = true;				\
 		printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);			\
 	}							\
+	unlikely(__ret_print_once);				\
 })
 #define printk_deferred_once(fmt, ...)				\
 ({								\
 	static bool __print_once __read_mostly;			\
+	bool __ret_print_once = !__print_once;			\
 								\
 	if (!__print_once) {					\
 		__print_once = true;				\
 		printk_deferred(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);		\
 	}							\
+	unlikely(__ret_print_once);				\
 })
 #else
 #define printk_once(fmt, ...)					\
-- 
2.7.3