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[2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components as possible

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Justin He April 28, 2021, 1:59 p.m. UTC
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be
perfect (by default it only prints one component.

%pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean
"as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as
possible" (ie 1).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
---
 Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 3 ++-
 lib/vsprintf.c                            | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Petr Mladek April 29, 2021, 8:46 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> 

> We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be

> perfect (by default it only prints one component.

> 

> %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean

> "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as

> possible" (ie 1).


Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was
came from?

It would be great to add and example into the commit message how
it improved the output.

Also please explain why it is useful/safe to change the behavior
for all existing users. It seems that you checked them and prevented
any regression by the other patches in this patchset.

Anyway, some regressions are fixed by the followup patches.
It would break bisection.

We either need to prevent the regression before this patch.
Or the changes have to be done in this patch. For example,
it would be perfectly fine to update test_printf.c in
this patch.

> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


If you want to keep Linus as the author and do more changes, you might
describe here changes done by you, for example:

[justin.he@arm.com: update documentation and test_printf]
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>


Or you might make you the author and add

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> ---

>  Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 3 ++-

>  lib/vsprintf.c                            | 4 ++--

>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

> 

> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst

> index 9be6de402cb9..aa76cbec0dae 100644

> --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst

> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst


Plese, update also the pattern:

-	%pd{,2,3,4}
-	%pD{,2,3,4}
+	%pd{1,2,3,4}
+	%pD{1,2,3,4}

> @@ -413,7 +413,8 @@ dentry names

>  For printing dentry name; if we race with :c:func:`d_move`, the name might

>  be a mix of old and new ones, but it won't oops.  %pd dentry is a safer

>  equivalent of %s dentry->d_name.name we used to use, %pd<n> prints ``n``

> -last components.  %pD does the same thing for struct file.

> +last components.  %pD does the same thing for struct file. By default, %p{D,d}

> +is equal to %p{D,d}4.

>  

>  Passed by reference.


Best Regards,
Petr
Andy Shevchenko April 29, 2021, 8:52 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
>

> On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:

> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> >

> > We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be

> > perfect (by default it only prints one component.

> >

> > %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean

> > "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as

> > possible" (ie 1).

>

> Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was

> came from?


https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210427025805.GD3122264@magnolia/

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
Petr Mladek April 29, 2021, 9:24 a.m. UTC | #3
On Thu 2021-04-29 11:52:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:

> >

> > On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:

> > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> > >

> > > We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be

> > > perfect (by default it only prints one component.

> > >

> > > %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean

> > > "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as

> > > possible" (ie 1).

> >

> > Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was

> > came from?

> 

> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210427025805.GD3122264@magnolia/


Thanks for the link. I see that it was not clear whether the patch
was good for %pd behavior.

Linus actually suggests to keep %pd behavior as it was before, see
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wimsMqGdzik187YWLb-ru+iktb4MYbMQG1rnZ81dXYFVg@mail.gmail.com/

Well, I think that this is up to the file system developers to decide.
I am not sure if the path would do more harm than good,
or vice versa, for dentry names.

Best Regards,
Petr
Justin He April 30, 2021, 1:35 a.m. UTC | #4
Hi

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 5:25 PM

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much

> components as possible

>

> On Thu 2021-04-29 11:52:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:

> > >

> > > On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:

> > > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> > > >

> > > > We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not

> be

> > > > perfect (by default it only prints one component.

> > > >

> > > > %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD"

> mean

> > > > "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few

> components as

> > > > possible" (ie 1).

> > >

> > > Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was

> > > came from?

> >

> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210427025805.GD3122264@magnolia/

>

> Thanks for the link. I see that it was not clear whether the patch

> was good for %pd behavior.

>

> Linus actually suggests to keep %pd behavior as it was before, see

> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wimsMqGdzik187YWLb-

> ru+iktb4MYbMQG1rnZ81dXYFVg@mail.gmail.com/


Okay, let me keep the default %pd behavior as before('%pd' is '%pd1') and
change the behavior of %pD ('%pD' is '%pD4')

--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)
>

> Well, I think that this is up to the file system developers to decide.

> I am not sure if the path would do more harm than good,

> or vice versa, for dentry names.

>

> Best Regards,

> Petr

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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index 9be6de402cb9..aa76cbec0dae 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -413,7 +413,8 @@  dentry names
 For printing dentry name; if we race with :c:func:`d_move`, the name might
 be a mix of old and new ones, but it won't oops.  %pd dentry is a safer
 equivalent of %s dentry->d_name.name we used to use, %pd<n> prints ``n``
-last components.  %pD does the same thing for struct file.
+last components.  %pD does the same thing for struct file. By default, %p{D,d}
+is equal to %p{D,d}4.
 
 Passed by reference.
 
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 6c56c62fd9a5..5b563953f970 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -880,11 +880,11 @@  char *dentry_name(char *buf, char *end, const struct dentry *d, struct printf_sp
 	int i, n;
 
 	switch (fmt[1]) {
-		case '2': case '3': case '4':
+		case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4':
 			depth = fmt[1] - '0';
 			break;
 		default:
-			depth = 1;
+			depth = 4;
 	}
 
 	rcu_read_lock();