linux-kernel - Allow tracepoints to use direct indexing for number->string translation

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Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:55:35 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6nig?= 
        <deathsimple@...afone.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Subject: Allow tracepoints to use direct indexing for number->string translation

Another feature that would be very nice to have is the ability to turn a
number into a string by direct array index rather than by table search or
serial ?: ternary operators.

This would make tracepoint viewing more efficient, though there is a potential
downside: if the value to be looked up is corrupt, it could index beyond the
end of the array.

David