Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:47:22 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 5/9] vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() |
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:58:25 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-02-12 at 14:00 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > > On Fri 2019-02-08 09:11:17, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 16:23 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > > > > Move the code from the long pointer() function. We are going to improve > > > > error handling that will make it more complicated. > > > > > > > > This patch does not change the existing behavior. > > > > > > But doesn't this increase stack use? > > > %pV is recursive and increasing the stack is undesired > > > for this use. > > > > %pV handler is stack sensitive because the entire vsnprintf() > > machinery is called recursively. This one extra call does > > not make it much worse. > > That's an argument?. > > Refactoring is good, but you need to add > __always_inline here. >
If a single function call causes this to overflow the stack, then the code is already broken to begin with.
-- Steve
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