Re: rfc: remove print_vma_addr ? (was Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures)

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On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 10:08 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:56:46AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I have a patchset that creates a vsprintf extension for
> > print_vma_addr and removes all the uses similar to the
> > print_symbol() removal.
> > 
> > This now avoids any possible printk interleaving.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, without some #ifdef in vsprintf, which
> > I would like to avoid, it increases the nommu kernel
> > size by ~500 bytes.
> > 
> > Anyone think this is acceptable?
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> This doesn't feel like a huge win since it's only called ~once per
> architecture.  I'd be more excited if it made the printing of the whole
> thing standardised; eg we have a print_fault() function in mm/memory.c
> which takes a suitable set of arguments.

Sure but perhaps that's not feasible as the surrounding output
is per-arch specific.

What could be a standardized fault message here?




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