> On Dec 3, 2015, at 00:03, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 03 2015, yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 13:04, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/02/2015 06:40 PM, yalin wang wrote: >>> >>> (please trim your reply next time, no need to quote whole patch here) >>> >>>> i am thinking why not make %pg* to be more generic ? >>>> not restricted to only GFP / vma flags / page flags . >>>> so could we change format like this ? >>>> define a flag spec struct to include flag and trace_print_flags and some other option : >>>> typedef struct { >>>> unsigned long flag; >>>> structtrace_print_flags *flags; >>>> unsigned long option; } flag_sec; >>>> flag_sec my_flag; >>>> in printk we only pass like this : >>>> printk(“%pg\n”, &my_flag) ; >>>> then it can print any flags defined by user . >>>> more useful for other drivers to use . >>> >>> I don't know, it sounds quite complicated > > Agreed, I think this would be premature generalization. There's also > some value in having the individual %pgX specifiers, as that allows > individual tweaks such as the mask_out for page flags. > > given that we had no flags printing >> if we use this generic method, %pgX where X can be used to specify some flag to mask out some thing . it will be great . > > Compared to printk("%pgv\n", &vma->flag), I know which I'd prefer to read. > >> i am not if DECLARE_FLAG_PRINTK_FMT and FLAG_PRINTK_FMT macro >> can be defined into one macro ? >> maybe need some trick here . >> >> is it possible ? > > Technically, I think the answer is yes, at least in C99 (and I suppose > gcc would accept it in gnu89 mode as well). > > printk("%pg\n", &(struct flag_printer){.flags = my_flags, .names = vmaflags_names}); > > Not tested, and I still don't think it would be particularly readable > even when macroized > > printk("%pg\n", PRINTF_VMAFLAGS(my_flags)); i test on gcc 4.9.3, it can work for this method, so the final solution like this: printk.h: struct flag_fmt_spec { unsigned long flag; struct trace_print_flags *flags; int array_size; char delimiter; } #define FLAG_FORMAT(flag, flag_array, delimiter) (&(struct flag_ft_spec){ .flag = flag, .flags = flag_array, .array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(flag_array), .delimiter = delimiter}) #define VMA_FLAG_FORMAT(flag) FLAG_FORMAT(flag, vmaflags_names, ‘|') source code: printk("%pg\n", VMA_FLAG_FORMAT(my_flags)); that’s all, see cpumask_pr_args(masks) macro, it also use macro and %*pb to print cpu mask . i think this method is not very complex to use . search source code , there is lots of printk to print flag into hex number : $ grep -n -r 'printk.*flag.*%x’ . it will be great if this flag string print is generic. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href