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Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/process: Constify the number of insns printed by show instructions functions.

From: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-17 12:39:46
Also in: lkml

Hi, Christophe.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:59:20AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
instructions_to_print var is assigned value 16 and there is no
way to change it.

This patch replaces it by a constant.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index c722ce4ca1c0..6317f2ed04ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1259,17 +1259,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
 	return last;
 }
 
-static int instructions_to_print = 16;
+#define NR_INSN_TO_PRINT	16
 
 static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	int i;
-	unsigned long pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 *
-			sizeof(int));
+	unsigned long pc = regs->nip - (NR_INSN_TO_PRINT * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
 
 	printk("Instruction dump:");
 
-	for (i = 0; i < instructions_to_print; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < NR_INSN_TO_PRINT; i++) {
 		int instr;
 
 		if (!(i % 8))
@@ -1306,9 +1305,9 @@ void show_user_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	char buf[96]; /* enough for 8 times 9 + 2 chars */
 	int l = 0;
 
-	pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
+	pc = regs->nip - (NR_INSN_TO_PRINT * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int));
 
-	for (i = 0; i < instructions_to_print; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < NR_INSN_TO_PRINT; i++) {
 		int instr;
 
 		if (!(i % 8) && (i > 0)) {
-- 
2.13.3
-- 
Murilo
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