On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 08:56:51PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > static inline void seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s) > > That probably needs to be 'always_inline'. What for? If compiler fails to inline it (and I'd be very surprised if that happened - if s is not a constant string, we get a straight call of __seq_puts() and for constant strings it boils down to call of seq_putc(m, constant) or seq_write(m, s, constant)), nothing bad would happen; we'd still get correct behaviour. > > { > > if (!__builtin_constant_p(*s)) > > __seq_puts(m, s); > > else if (s[0] && !s[1]) > > seq_putc(m, s[0]); > > else > > seq_write(m, s, __builtin_strlen(s)); > > } > > You missed seq_puts(m, ""); Where have you seen one? And if it gets less than optimal, who cares? > Could you do: > size_t len = __builtin_strlen(s); > if (!__builtin_constant_p(len)) > __seq_puts(m, s); > else switch (len){ > case 0: break; > case 1: seq_putc(m, s[0]); > default: seq_write(m, s, len); > } Umm... That's probably OK, but I wonder how useful would that be...