linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] remove some of unneeded kallsyms includes

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Message-ID: <20171209000008.GF489@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:00:08 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] remove some of unneeded kallsyms includes

On (12/08/17 14:24), Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri,  8 Dec 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	A small patch set that removes some kallsyms includes
> > here and there. Mostly those kallsyms includes are leftovers:
> > printk() gained %pS/%pF modifiers support some time ago, so
> > print_symbol() and friends became sort of unneeded [along with
> > print_fn_descriptor_symbol() deprecation], thus some of the
> > users were converted to pS/pF. This patch set just cleans up
> > that convertion.
> > 
> > 	We still have a number of print_symbol() users [which
> > must be converted to ps/pf, print_symbol() uses a stack buffer
> > KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN to do what printk(ps/pf) can do], but this is
> > out of scope.
> > 
> > 	I compile tested the patch set; but, as always and
> > usual, would be great if 0day build robot double check it.
> 
> I grabbed everything and shall drop any patches which later turn up in
> the various subsystem trees.

thank you!

	-ss