sprint_symbol(): use less stack
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:36:36 +0000 (15:36 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:49:58 +0000 (18:49 -0800)
commit966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949
tree8914c842252f6872cca006b482d32ee7a12da808
parent3fa59dfbc3b223f02c26593be69ce6fc9a940405
sprint_symbol(): use less stack

sprint_symbol(), itself used when dumping stacks, has been wasting 128
bytes of stack: lookup the symbol directly into the buffer supplied by the
caller, instead of using a locally declared namebuf.

I believe the name != buffer strcpy() is obsolete: the design here dates
from when module symbol lookup pointed into a supposedly const but sadly
volatile table; nowadays it copies, but an uncalled strcpy() looks better
here than the risk of a recursive BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kallsyms.c