Re: [patch] Printk kernel version in WARN_ON

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

On Saturday 17 November 2007 10:15, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  #define WARN_ON(condition) ({						\
>  	int __ret_warn_on = !!(condition);				\
>  	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) {					\
> -		printk("WARNING: at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__,		\
> -			__LINE__, __FUNCTION__);			\
> +		printk("WARNING: at %s:%d %s()  (%s)\n", __FILE__,	\
> +			__LINE__, __FUNCTION__, UTS_RELEASE);		\
>  		dump_stack();						\
>  	}								\
>  	unlikely(__ret_warn_on);					\

We have ~700 WARN_ONs in the tree. Adding UTS_RELEASE to printk
grows every one of them by at least 5 bytes.

I think it makes sense to move printk out-of-line, to

void print_WARN_ON_warning(const char *file, int line, const char *func);

This will save at least 10 bytes per WARN_ON.
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vda
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