Re: Print taint info in more places.

From: Mauricio Mauad Menegaz Filho
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 18:43:29 EST


2007/12/13, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > #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(KERN_ERR "WARNING: at %s:%d %s() (%s)\n", \
> > + __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__, \
> > + print_tainted()); \
> > dump_stack(); \
>
> Have you checked how this affects code size? It might be worth it
> now to do a out of line helper.
>

Have you checked how does spotting a bug is worth the extra size
sometimes (almost all the time)?
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