Re: [PATCH 10/12] sched: use {cpu|node}mask pr_cont and seq output functions

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Peter.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:39:15AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I would very much prefer something like the below instead..
> 
> I'm not a great fan of pr_cont, it makes a mess of things if there's
> multiple cpus printing bits.

Yeah, it does sometimes get annoying and bitmaps should be generic
enough to have support from core printk functions.

...
> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  #include <linux/ioport.h>
>  #include <linux/dcache.h>
> +#include <linux/cpumask.h>
>  #include <net/addrconf.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/page.h>		/* for PAGE_SIZE */
> @@ -1218,6 +1219,7 @@ int kptr_restrict __read_mostly;
>   *            The maximum supported length is 64 bytes of the input. Consider
>   *            to use print_hex_dump() for the larger input.
>   * - 'a' For a phys_addr_t type and its derivative types (passed by reference)
> + * - 'c' For a cpumask list
>   *
>   * Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
>   * function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
> @@ -1335,6 +1337,8 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf
>  		return dentry_name(buf, end,
>  				   ((const struct file *)ptr)->f_path.dentry,
>  				   spec, fmt);
> +	case 'c':
> +		return buf + cpulist_scnprintf(buf, end - buf, ptr);

I think we prolly want something more generic than hard coding cpu and
node masks into printk.  Prolly something along the line of %*pb so
that the caller can do something along the line of

  printk("cpumask: %*pb\n", nr_cpumask_bits, cpumask);

I'll see if that's actually doable.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun