Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] net: dropreason: use new __print_sym() in tracing

[Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 12:23:55AM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 9/22/26 12:03 AM, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> > Hi Johannes,
> > 
> > (+Cc openvswitch devs)
> > 
> > On 21/09/2026 12:06, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >>
> >> The __print_symbolic() could only ever print the core
> >> drop reasons, since that's the way the infrastructure
> >> works. Now that we have __print_sym() with all the
> >> advantages mentioned in that commit, convert to that
> >> and get all the drop reasons from all subsystems. As
> >> we already have a list of them, that's really easy.
> >>
> >> This is a little bit of .text (~100 bytes in my build)
> >> and saves a lot of .data (~17k).
> > Thank you for working on that! But it looks like it breaks the
> > openvswitch test:
> > 
> > https://netdev-ctrl.bots.linux.dev/logview.html?f=%2Flogs%2Fvmksft%2Fnet%2Fresults%2F833743%2F9-openvswitch-sh%2Fstdout#L168
> > 
> > Maybe the test needs to be adapted to get the same info differently?
> > (and adding CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS to the selftest config file)
> The parsing in the test will definitely need to be updated, i.e.,
> the numbers swapped with the names of the drop reasons.
> 
> IIUC, this change only affects the printing and doesn't affect debugging
> tools like retis that attempt to surface the drop reasons.  But, maybe
> Adrian and Antoine (CCed) may want to have a glance as well.

Yes, that's fine.