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The strange vbin_printf / bstr_printf interface used to save one- and two-byte printf numerical arguments into their packed format. That's more than a bit strange since the argument buffer is supposed to be an array of 'u32' words, and it's also very different from how the source of the data (varargs) work - which always do the normal integer type conversions, so 'char' and 'short' are always passed as int-sized anyway. This odd packing causes extra code complexity, and it really isn't worth it, since the space savings are simply not there: it only happens for formats like '%hd' (short) and '%hhd' (char), which are very rare indeed. In fact, the only other user of this interface seems to be the bpf helper code (bpf_bprintf_prepare()), and Alexei points out that that case doesn't support those truncated integer formatting options at all in the first place. As a result, bpf_bprintf_prepare() doesn't need any changes for this, and TRACE_BPRINT uses 'vbin_printf()' -> 'bstr_printf()' for the formatting and hopefully doesn't expose the odd packing any other way (knock wood). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQJy65oOubjxM-378O3wDfhuwg8TGa9hc-cTv6NmmUSykQ@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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