Re: [PATCH 0/4] printk_index: Fix false positives

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 11:41:13 EST


On Tue 2024-03-19 16:09:01, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2024-02-28 15:00:01, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When printk-indexing is enabled, each printk() invocation emits a
> > pi_entry structure, containing the format string and other information
> > related to its location in the kernel sources. This is even true when
> > the printk() is protected by an always-false check, as is typically the
> > case for debug messages: while the actual code to print the message is
> > optimized out by the compiler, the pi_entry structure is still emitted.
> > Hence when debugging is disabled, this leads to the inclusion in the
> > index of lots of printk formats that cannot be emitted by the current
> > kernel.
> >
> > This series fixes that for the common debug helpers under include/.
> > It reduces the size of an arm64 defconfig kernel with
> > CONFIG_PRINTK_INDEX=y by ca. 1.5 MiB, or 28% of the overhead of
> > enabling CONFIG_PRINTK_INDEX=y.
> >
> > Notes:
> > - netdev_(v)dbg() and netif_(v)dbg() are not affected, as
> > net{dev,if}_printk() do not implement printk-indexing, except
> > for the single global internal instance of __netdev_printk().
> > - This series fixes only debug code in global header files under
> > include/. There are more cases to fix in subsystem-specific header
> > files and in sources files.
> >
> > Thanks for your comments!
> >
> > Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
> > printk: Let no_printk() use _printk()
> > dev_printk: Add and use dev_no_printk()
> > dyndbg: Use *no_printk() helpers
> > ceph: Use no_printk() helper
> >
> > include/linux/ceph/ceph_debug.h | 18 +++++++-----------
> > include/linux/dev_printk.h | 25 +++++++++++++------------
> > include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 4 ++--
> > include/linux/printk.h | 2 +-
> > 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> The whole series looks good to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I am going take it via printk tree for 6.10.

JFYI, the patchset has been committed into printk/linux.git, branch
for-6.10.

Best Regards,
Petr