linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] tracing: Be more clever when dumping hex in __print

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Message-Id: <20190806132127.43924-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue,  6 Aug 2019 16:21:27 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] tracing: Be more clever when dumping hex in __print_hex()

Hex dump as many as 16 bytes at once in trace_print_hex_seq()
instead of byte-by-byte approach.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index cab4a5398f1d..ef52807473b7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ trace_print_hex_seq(struct trace_seq *p, const unsigned char *buf, int buf_len,
 {
 	int i;
 	const char *ret = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p);
+	const char *fmt = concatenate ? "%*phN" : "%*ph";
 
-	for (i = 0; i < buf_len; i++)
-		trace_seq_printf(p, "%s%2.2x", concatenate || i == 0 ? "" : " ",
-				 buf[i]);
+	for (i = 0; i < buf_len; i += 16)
+		trace_seq_printf(p, fmt, min(buf_len % 16, 16), &buf[i]);
 	trace_seq_putc(p, 0);
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.20.1