On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:47 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> It would be good if Joe could go through the remaining print_mac users
> and convert the remaining unintended function calls in fastpaths back
> to MAC_FMT. Grepping for "start_xmit" in commit 0795af5729b shows that
> at least 10 hard_start_xmit functions are affected and I expect that
> some of the changes in the wireless code affect fastpaths as well.
I don't mind doing that, as calling print_mac in these fastpaths in
unintentional and undesirable. But wouldn't it be better to find a
solution that removes all debug printk function calls that should
be optimized away?
I have not seen any response to a suggestion to convert debug printk
macros (dprintk, pr_debug, dev_dbg, etc) to:
#define pr_debug(fmt, arg...) \
do { if (0) printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt, ##arg); } while (0)
This preserves argument verification and gives the compiler the
capability to optimize out the printk and any functions the printk
might call.
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 2df44e7..cd24112 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -293,10 +293,8 @@ extern void print_hex_dump_bytes(const char *prefix_str,
int prefix_type,
#define pr_debug(fmt, arg...) \
printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt, ##arg)
#else
-static inline int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))) pr_debug(const char
* fmt, ...)
-{
- return 0;
-}
+#define pr_debug(fmt, arg...) \
+ do { if (0) printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt, ##arg); } while (0)
#endif
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 2258d89..79601b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -608,21 +608,15 @@ extern const char *dev_driver_string(struct device *dev);
#define dev_dbg(dev, format, arg...) \
dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG , dev , format , ## arg)
#else
-static inline int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)))
-dev_dbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
-{
- return 0;
-}
+#define dev_dbg(dev, format, arg...) \
+ do { if (0) dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG , dev , format, ## arg); } while (0)
#endif
#ifdef VERBOSE_DEBUG
#define dev_vdbg dev_dbg
#else
-static inline int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)))
-dev_vdbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
-{
- return 0;
-}
+#define dev_vdbg(dev, format, arg...) \
+ do { if (0) dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG , dev , format, ## arg); } while (0)
#endif
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