[PATCH 1/3] vprintk support

[PATCH 1/3] vprintk support

[Matt Mackall]

Add vprintk call. This lets us directly pass varargs stuff to the
console without using vsnprintf to an intermediate buffer.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

 tiny-mpm/include/linux/kernel.h |    1 +
 tiny-mpm/kernel/printk.c        |   14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: tiny/include/linux/kernel.h
===================================================================
--- tiny.orig/include/linux/kernel.h	2004-04-15 14:18:37.000000000 -0500
+++ tiny/include/linux/kernel.h	2004-04-19 13:29:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
 extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
 extern int session_of_pgrp(int pgrp);
 
+asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args);
 asmlinkage int printk(const char * fmt, ...)
 	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 
Index: tiny/kernel/printk.c
===================================================================
--- tiny.orig/kernel/printk.c	2004-04-15 14:18:37.000000000 -0500
+++ tiny/kernel/printk.c	2004-04-19 13:29:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -483,6 +483,17 @@
 asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list args;
+	int r;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	r = vprintk(fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
+asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
+{
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int printed_len;
 	char *p;
@@ -500,9 +511,7 @@
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);
 
 	/* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
-	va_start(args, fmt);
 	printed_len = vscnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
-	va_end(args);
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the output into log_buf.  If the caller didn't provide
@@ -554,6 +563,7 @@
 	return printed_len;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk);
 
 /**
  * acquire_console_sem - lock the console system for exclusive use.


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