On Tue 2021-03-23 15:42:01, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > The printk code is already hard enough to understand. Remove an > unnecessary indirection by renaming vprintk_func to vprintk (adding > the asmlinkage annotation), and removing the vprintk definition from > printk.c. That way, printk is implemented in terms of vprintk as one > would expect, and there's no "vprintk_func, what's that? Some function > pointer that gets set where?" > > The declaration of vprintk in linux/printk.h already has the > __printf(1,0) attribute, there's no point repeating that with the > definition - it's for diagnostics in callers. > > linux/printk.h already contains a static inline {return 0;} definition > of vprintk when !CONFIG_PRINTK. > > Since the corresponding stub definition of vprintk_func was not marked > "static inline", any translation unit including internal.h would get a > definition of vprintk_func - it just so happens that for > !CONFIG_PRINTK, there is precisely one such TU, namely printk.c. Had > there been more, it would be a link error; now it's just a silly waste > of a few bytes of .text, which one must assume are rather precious to > anyone disabling PRINTK. > > $ objdump -dr kernel/printk/printk.o > 00000330 <vprintk_func>: > 330: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax > 332: c3 ret > 333: 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%esi,%eiz,1),%esi > 33a: 8d b6 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%esi),%esi > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Nice clean up! Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> John, it conflicts with the patchset removing printk safe buffers[1]. Would you prefer to queue this into the patchset? Or should I push it into printk/linux.git, printk-rework and you would base v2 on top of it? Best Regards, Petr