Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Avoid KERN_CONT uses in warn_alloc

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 16:43 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 07-11-17 07:34:25, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > I believe, but have not tested, that using a specific width
> > as an argument to %*pb[l] will constrain the number of
> > spaces before the '(null)' output in any NULL pointer use.
> > 
> > So how about a #define like
> > 
> > /*
> >  * nodemask_pr_args is only used with a "%*pb[l]" format for a nodemask.
> >  * A NULL nodemask uses 6 to emit "(null)" without leading spaces.
> >  */
> > #define nodemask_pr_args(maskp)			\
> > 	(maskp) ? MAX_NUMNODES : 6,		\
> > 	(maskp) ? (maskp)->bits : NULL
> 
> Why not -1 then?

I believe it's the field width and not the precision that
needs to be set.

But if you test it and it works, then that's fine by me.