Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] net: dropreason: use new __print_sym() in tracing

On 9/22/26 12:03 AM, Matthieu Baerts wrote:

Hi Johannes,

(+Cc openvswitch devs)

On 21/09/2026 12:06, Johannes Berg wrote:

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From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

The __print_symbolic() could only ever print the core
drop reasons, since that's the way the infrastructure
works. Now that we have __print_sym() with all the
advantages mentioned in that commit, convert to that
and get all the drop reasons from all subsystems. As
we already have a list of them, that's really easy.

This is a little bit of .text (~100 bytes in my build)
and saves a lot of .data (~17k).

Thank you for working on that! But it looks like it breaks the
openvswitch test:

https://netdev-ctrl.bots.linux.dev/logview.html?f=%2Flogs%2Fvmksft%2Fnet%2Fresults%2F833743%2F9-openvswitch-sh%2Fstdout#L168

Maybe the test needs to be adapted to get the same info differently?
(and adding CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS to the selftest config file)

The parsing in the test will definitely need to be updated, i.e.,
the numbers swapped with the names of the drop reasons.

IIUC, this change only affects the printing and doesn't affect debugging
tools like retis that attempt to surface the drop reasons.  But, maybe
Adrian and Antoine (CCed) may want to have a glance as well.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.