Re: [PATCH 0/1] Put seq_buf on a diet

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:45:13 +0100
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Prompted by the recent mails on ksummit, let's actually try to make this
> work this time.  We need a container for manipulating strings easily,
> and seq_buf is the closest thing we have to it.  The only problem I have
> with it is the readpos that is only useful for the tracing code today.
> So move it from the seq_buf to the tracing code.
> 
> We should go further with this patch series, including using seq_buf
> within vsprintf, but if we can't get over this hurdle first, I'm not
> going to waste my time on this again.
> 
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (1):
>   trace: Move readpos from seq_buf to trace_seq
> 
>  include/linux/seq_buf.h   |  5 +----
>  include/linux/trace_seq.h |  2 ++
>  kernel/trace/trace.c      | 10 +++++-----
>  kernel/trace/trace_seq.c  |  6 +++++-
>  lib/seq_buf.c             | 13 +++++--------
>  5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks Matthew, I'll pull this in and add it to my for-next queue (after
testing)

-- Steve