On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 15:44 -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > From: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 90% of the usage of device node's full_name is printing it out in a > kernel message. However, storing the full path for every node is > wasteful and redundant. With a custom format specifier, we can generate > the full path at run-time and eventually remove the full path from every > node. > > For instance typical use is: > pr_info("Frobbing node %s\n", node->full_name); > > Which can be written now as: > pr_info("Frobbing node %pOF\n", node); I still think this should use another identifier like %pO for object then another letter for type of object maybe N for node. And F is flags, f is name > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c [] > @@ -1470,6 +1471,131 @@ char *flags_string(char *buf, char *end, void *flags_ptr, const char *fmt) > return format_flags(buf, end, flags, names); > } > > +static int device_node_calc_depth(const struct device_node *np) > +{ > + int d; > + > + for (d = 0; np; d++) > + np = np->parent; > + > + return d; > +} > + > +static noinline_for_stack > +char *device_node_gen_full_name(const struct device_node *np, char *buf, char *end) > +{ > + int i; > + int depth = device_node_calc_depth(np); > + static const struct printf_spec strspec = { > + .field_width = -1, > + .precision = -1, > + }; > + const struct device_node *nodes[depth]; > + > + if (!depth) > + returnuf; > + /* special case for root node */ > + if (depth == 1) > + return string(buf, end, "/", strspec); > + > + depth--; > + for (i = depth - 1; i >= 0; i--) { > + nodes[i] = np; > + np = np->parent; > + } > + for (i = 0; i < depth; i++) { > + buf = string(buf, end, "/", strspec); > + buf = string(buf, end, kbasename(nodes[i]->full_name), strspec); > + } > + return buf; > +} I think there should be another function to get a particular struct device_node * at a particular depth to avoid all the pointers on stack. Basically, adapt the for (i = depth - 1 loop to a function that returns nodes[i] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html