On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:28:48PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > And there is another one hitting during randconfig. The patch makes my > eyes bleed but I don't know about other way without breaking out the > thing into separate parts sounds worse because we can mix with other > messages then. how about something along the lines of.. bufptr = buffer = kmalloc() #if defined(CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING) || defined(CONFIG_COMPACTION) bufptr += sprintf(bufptr, "tlb_flush_pending %d\n", mm->tlb_flush_pending); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_MMU bufptr += sprintf(bufptr, "... #endif ... printk(KERN_EMERG "%s", buffer); free(buffer); Still ugly, but looks less like a trainwreck, and keeps the variables with the associated text. It does introduce an allocation though, which may be problematic in this situation. Depending how big this gets, perhaps make it static instead? Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html