[patch] Re: missing vprintf in kernel.api. Interest in patch?

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 21:09:36 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:22:59AM +0100, wdebruij@xxxxxx wrote:
> Therefore my question is this: is there any interest in
>
> (1) a small patch that extracts the vsnprintf(printk_buf,...) from printk and
> thus creates a vprintf function (trivial change, perhaps +5 lines of code).

I already have this patch in my -tiny tree as well as some other patches to
convert some would-be users like ext3_error. Andrew, interested in these?

Add vprintk call


tiny-mpm/include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
tiny-mpm/kernel/printk.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~vprintk include/linux/kernel.h
--- tiny/include/linux/kernel.h~vprintk 2004-02-04 14:55:22.000000000 -0600
+++ tiny-mpm/include/linux/kernel.h 2004-02-04 14:55:22.000000000 -0600
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ extern unsigned long long memparse(char
extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
extern int session_of_pgrp(int pgrp);

+asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args);
asmlinkage int printk(const char * fmt, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)));

diff -puN kernel/printk.c~vprintk kernel/printk.c
--- tiny/kernel/printk.c~vprintk 2004-02-04 14:55:22.000000000 -0600
+++ tiny-mpm/kernel/printk.c 2004-02-04 14:55:22.000000000 -0600
@@ -474,6 +474,17 @@ static void emit_log_char(char c)
asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;
+ int r;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ r = vprintk(fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+
+ return r;
+}
+
+asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
+{
unsigned long flags;
int printed_len;
char *p;
@@ -491,9 +502,7 @@ asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, .
spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);

/* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
- va_start(args, fmt);
printed_len = vsnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
- va_end(args);

/*
* Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide
@@ -543,6 +552,7 @@ out:
return printed_len;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk);

/**
* acquire_console_sem - lock the console system for exclusive use.

_


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Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
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