Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS/kernel/proc: Combine four seq_printf() calls into one call in show_cpuinfo()

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:55:42AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > -       seq_printf(m, "shadow register sets\t: %d\n",
> > -                     cpu_data[n].srsets);
> > -       seq_printf(m, "kscratch registers\t: %d\n",
> > -                     hweight8(cpu_data[n].kscratch_mask));
> > -       seq_printf(m, "package\t\t\t: %d\n", cpu_data[n].package);
> > -       seq_printf(m, "core\t\t\t: %d\n", cpu_data[n].core);
> > +       seq_printf(m,
> > +                  "shadow register sets\t: %d\n"
> > +                  "kscratch registers\t: %d\n"
> > +                  "package\t\t\t: %d\n"
> > +                  "core\t\t\t: %d\n",
> > +                  cpu_data[n].srsets,
> > +                  hweight8(cpu_data[n].kscratch_mask),
> > +                  cpu_data[n].package,
> > +                  cpu_data[n].core);
> 
> I think the code is much easier to read with separate seq_printf()s for
> each line printed.

Which is why I originally implemented this as separate function calls.
Code size and performance are hardly an argument for /proc/cpuinfo.

  Ralf