From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5068CC433DF for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344B420729 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729021AbgHQOjd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:39:33 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0197.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.197]:48732 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728619AbgHQOjc (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:39:32 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DFE18029DBF; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:39:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: water82_530756927017 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1800 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <908521d73a918b1ea6c9151a3376073765858737.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vsprintf: Add %pv extension replacement for print_vma_addr From: Joe Perches To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: LKML , Petr Mladek , Steven Rostedt , Sergey Senozhatsky , Rasmus Villemoes Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:39:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20200817114441.GK1891694@smile.fi.intel.com> References: <09f11651f0e913e159b955ac447cd8cadf36cb0d.camel@perches.com> <20200817114441.GK1891694@smile.fi.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 14:44 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:53:03AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > There is a print_vma_addr function used several places > > that requires KERN_CONT use. > > > > Add a %pv mechanism to avoid the need for KERN_CONT. > > I like the idea, but I would accent the selling point to make code > (in the user call sites) nicer. [] > > +#else > > + buf = string_nocheck(buf, end, "CONFIG_MMU=n", default_str_spec); > > +#endif > > Can we avoid this spammy message? Really it's quite long and fills valuable > space in kernel buffer. I would rather print the hashed pointer as it's done > for the rest of %pXXX. Don't see why not. I believe it'd just use buf = ptr_to_id(buf, end, ip, spec); instead