linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Be more clever when dumping hex in __print

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Date:   Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:50:48 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Be more clever when dumping hex in
 __print_hex()

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:28:26 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue,  6 Aug 2019 18:15:43 +0300
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hex dump as many as 16 bytes at once in trace_print_hex_seq()
> > > instead of byte-by-byte approach.  
> 
> > > +	const char *fmt = concatenate ? "%*phN" : "%*ph";
> > >  
> > > +	for (i = 0; i < buf_len; i += 16)
> > > +		trace_seq_printf(p, fmt, min(buf_len - i, 16), &buf[i]);  
> > 
> > Cute.
> > 
> > I'll have to wrap my head around it a bit to make sure it's correct.  
> 
> Anything I need to update here?
> 

Nope, thanks for the ping, I've been traveling quite crazy lately. I'll
try to add this to the next merge window coming up shortly.

-- Steve