On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 04:19:31AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet
> > Rasmus pointed out that -fno-strict-aliasing is going to cause gcc to generate
> > nasty code, and indeed it unfortunately does but according to worst case
> > scenario microbenchmarks it's not a problem for actual performance.
>
> Just copy some of the structure members to local variables
> and, if necessary, write them back at the end.
You must not have read any of the code - half the point of this patch series is
implementing proper helpers for printing chars, strings of bytes, etc. and that
doesn't work if we're not using actual types.
> > printk("%pd", dentry);
> >
> > becomes
> >
> > printk("%pf(%p)", prt_dentry, dentry);
> >
> > My OOM debugging & reporting patch series that builds off of this uses this
> > to solve a very real problem that Michal Hocko brought up at LSF - with this
> > we write shrinkers_to_text(), slab_to_text() which can _also_ now be used for
> > reporting in debugfs (which Roman has been working on), as well as in the
> > show_mem() report - the "%pf()" syntax lets us print the output of those
> > functions without allocating (and having to preallocate) a separate buffer.
>
> I really think that is a bad idea.
> printk() already uses a lot of stack, anything doing a recursive
> call is just making that worse.
> Especially since these calls can often be in error paths
> which are not often tested and can already be on deep stacks.
We went over this before - this patch series drastically reduces stack usage of
sprintf by eliminating a bunch of stack allocated buffers. Do try to keep up...
