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From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
To: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] add /proc/pid/stack to dump task's stack trace
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:46:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6599ad830811071046w30111c42refcc2287a154a1e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b040c32a0811071038g5e6faba6n55b22e52e1d2ea98@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a patch convert to seq_file using proc_single_show() helper.
> I don't see it to be any superior than what was before using
> snprintf().  seq_read also allocate one page for printf buffer, so
> functionally it is the same (perhaps a little bit better because it
> can use the whole page, compare to PROC_BLOCK_SIZE currently).

No - if you exceed the original buffer size, the seq_file system will
double up the memory buffer and try again if necessary.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-06 19:01 Ken Chen
2008-11-06 19:51 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-06 20:12   ` Ken Chen
2008-11-06 20:35     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  0:30       ` Ken Chen
2008-11-07  0:48         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-07  7:41           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  7:59             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  8:20               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-07  8:32                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  8:49                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-07  8:53                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  9:03                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07  9:16                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  9:29                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07 17:51                             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-08 12:06                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 23:54                             ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 10:00                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-11 12:25                         ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-11-11 12:33                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-11 13:20                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-11 14:03                             ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-11-11 14:19                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07 18:38                   ` Ken Chen
2008-11-07 18:46                     ` Paul Menage [this message]
2008-11-08 12:10                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-09 18:08                       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-10  8:41                         ` Ingo Molnar

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