Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Remove side effects from vdbg_printk -> no_printk macro

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Thu Aug 27 2015 - 13:32:23 EST


On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 15:13, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > vdbg_printk when not using CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUG uses
> > > no_printk which produces no logging output but always
> > > evaluates arguments.
> > >
> > > Change the macro to surround the no_printk call with
> > > do { if (0) no_printk(...); } while (0)
> > > to avoid the unnecessary argument evaluations.
> > >
> > > $ size drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o*
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > 60918 6184 824 67926 10956
> > > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.new
> > > 60927 6184 824 67935 1095f
> > > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.old
> >
> > The code size savings of this change are really small...
>
> yup. This is just an on-the-way patch to get
> all the no_printk uses in a state that can
> be converted more simply to a side-effect free
> mechanism.
>
> > > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > > @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static const char *str_supported(int is_supported);
> > > #else
> > > static inline const char *str_supported(int is_supported) { return ""; }
> > > #define vdbg_printk(a_dbg_level, format, arg...) \
> > > - no_printk(format, ##arg)
> > > + do { if (0) no_printk(format, ##arg); } while (0)
> > > #endif
> >
> > And won't this change disable compile-time checking of 'format ## arg'
> > for issues?
>
> No. The call is still there so the compiler checks
> the format/argument matches, but eliminates the
> call and any side-effect calls from the object file.

Ok, very well. In that case, I will ack it.

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Henrique Holschuh
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