Re: [PATCH] tracing/core: bring back raw trace_printk for dynamicformats strings

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 13:51:42 EST



On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings
>
> Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static
> containers for the format strings on each callsites.
> But the value is assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take
> dynamic formats.
>
> So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers
> that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format strings.
> The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation for each
> callsite.
> Most of the time however, the binary implementation will still be used.
>
> The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old
> implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't guess
> here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not.
>
> Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably the
> part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites).
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Frederic!

Ingo, I'm going to pull this in my tree, since I have some patches
dependent on it.

-- Steve
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