linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 07/45] powerpc/ptdump: Limit size of flags text to 1/2 chars on PPC32

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Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 15:15:41 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/45] powerpc/ptdump: Limit size of flags text to 1/2 chars on PPC32

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> writes:
> In order to have all flags fit on a 80 chars wide screen,
> reduce the flags to 1 char (2 where ambiguous).

I don't love this, the output is less readable. Is fitting on an 80 char
screen a real issue for you? I just make my terminal window bigger.

cheers


> No cache is 'i'
> User is 'ur' (Supervisor would be sr)
> Shared (for 8xx) becomes 'sh' (it was 'user' when not shared but
> that was ambiguous because that's not entirely right)
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/8xx.c    | 33 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>  arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/shared.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++----------------
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)