Re: [PATCH] mm: simplify node/zone name printing

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Dec 19 2016 - 03:27:03 EST


On (12/19/16 09:12), Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 19-12-16 16:32:28, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> [...]
> > as far as I can tell, now for_each_populated_zone() iterations are
> > split by non-CONT printk() from show_zone_node(), which previously
> > has been printk(KERN_CONT "%s: ", zone->name), so pr_cont(\n)
> > between iterations was important, but now that non-CONT printk()
> > should do the trick. it's _a bit_ hacky, though.
>
> Do you consider that more hacky than the original?

well, slightly. merely because (to me) implicit always relies on
internals, which can change; while explicit does not (ideally).
simply because of that.

but I don't have any problems with your patch.

-ss