Re: [PATCH] printk: move dump stack related code to lib/dump_stack.c

[Dave Young]

On 02/09/18 at 04:51pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 02/09/18 at 05:42pm, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (02/09/18 16:27), Dave Young wrote:
> > > > Seems that those functions are still defined in printk header.
> > > > Did you test !CONFIG_PRINTK build?
> > 
> > Apparently dump_stack(void) is also in printk.h
> > 
> > extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
> > 
> > so it's "OK" to keep those functions in printk.h, I guess. I thought
> > that dump_stack() had its own header file...
> 
> It has not unfortunately..  The build failed because we have dummy
> functions in printk.h and redefined in lib/dump_stack.c.  I'm hesitating
> to add #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK in lib/dump_stack.c.

Maybe conditionally build dump_stack.o only when CONFIG_PRINTK is true,
but not sure if there are some historic reason this is not done before,
will do some testing see if it works.

> 
> > 
> > > !CONFIG_PRINTK will use the dummy functions in printk.h, I did not test
> > > the build, doing it now to double confirm..
> > 
> > Not sure. Please test.
> > 
> > 	-ss
> 
> Thanks
> Dave