Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] vsprintf: dump full information of page flags in pGp

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 02:53:53PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Tue 2021-02-09 18:56:13, Yafang Shao wrote:

...

> I am sorry for my ignorance. I am not familiar with MM.
> But it is pretty hard to understand what call does what.
> 
> I have found the following comment in include/linux/page_flags.h:
> 
>  * The page flags field is split into two parts, the main flags area
>  * which extends from the low bits upwards, and the fields area which
>  * extends from the high bits downwards.
> 
> Sigh, I know that you already reworked this several times because
> people "nitpicked" about the code style. But it seems that it
> rather diverged instead of converged.
> 
> What about the following?

Isn't is some like v1 or v2?

> Note: It is inpired by the names "main area" and "fields area"
>       mentioned in the above comment from page_flags.h.
>       I have later realized that "page_flags_layout" actually made
>       sense as well. Feel free to rename page_flags_fileds
>       back to page_flags_layout.
> 
> Anyway, this is my proposal:

What about to create a one format_flags() function which accepts new data
structure and do something like

buf = format_flags(main_area);
buf = format_flags(fields_area);
return buf;

?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko