On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > In a reply to the printbufs thread, I wrote a proposal to use an > alloc to reduce stack in vsprintf when CONFIG_KALLSYMS is enabled. > > No one has replied to this but I think it's somewhat sensible. > > Thoughts? As functions get converted to printbufs the separate stack allocated buffers become unnecessary, because printbufs have helpers that do bounds checking and make outputting to the vsprintf buffer painless. So it's not necessary - I haven't fully converted symbol_string() yet but I'll do so by the time I mail out the next round of patches.