Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] crypto test: use print_hex_dump from kernel.hinstead

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 04:28:45 EST


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:03:29 +0800 "rae l" <crquan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -static void hexdump(unsigned char *buf, unsigned int len)
> +static inline void hexdump(unsigned char *buf, unsigned int len)
> {
> - while (len--)
> - printk("%02x", *buf++);
> -
> - printk("\n");
> + print_hex_dump(KERN_CONT, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET,
> + 16, 1,
> + buf, len, false);
> }

uninlining this function shrinks crypto/tcrypt.o's .text from 20,009 bytes
down to 19,701.

inlining is almost always wrong.
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