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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Byrne
6937487be7 libbb: reduce the overhead of single parameter bb_error_msg() calls
Back in 2007, commit 0c97c9d437 ("'simple' error message functions by
Loic Grenie") introduced bb_simple_perror_msg() to allow for a lower
overhead call to bb_perror_msg() when only a string was being printed
with no parameters. This saves space for some CPU architectures because
it avoids the overhead of a call to a variadic function. However there
has never been a simple version of bb_error_msg(), and since 2007 many
new calls to bb_perror_msg() have been added that only take a single
parameter and so could have been using bb_simple_perror_message().

This changeset introduces 'simple' versions of bb_info_msg(),
bb_error_msg(), bb_error_msg_and_die(), bb_herror_msg() and
bb_herror_msg_and_die(), and replaces all calls that only take a
single parameter, or use something like ("%s", arg), with calls to the
corresponding 'simple' version.

Since it is likely that single parameter calls to the variadic functions
may be accidentally reintroduced in the future a new debugging config
option WARN_SIMPLE_MSG has been introduced. This uses some macro magic
which will cause any such calls to generate a warning, but this is
turned off by default to avoid use of the unpleasant macros in normal
circumstances.

This is a large changeset due to the number of calls that have been
replaced. The only files that contain changes other than simple
substitution of function calls are libbb.h, libbb/herror_msg.c,
libbb/verror_msg.c and libbb/xfuncs_printf.c. In miscutils/devfsd.c,
networking/udhcp/common.h and util-linux/mdev.c additonal macros have
been added for logging so that single parameter and multiple parameter
logging variants exist.

The amount of space saved varies considerably by architecture, and was
found to be as follows (for 'defconfig' using GCC 7.4):

Arm:     -92 bytes
MIPS:    -52 bytes
PPC:   -1836 bytes
x86_64: -938 bytes

Note that for the MIPS architecture only an exception had to be made
disabling the 'simple' calls for 'udhcp' (in networking/udhcp/common.h)
because it made these files larger on MIPS.

Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@origamienergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2019-07-02 11:35:03 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
b097a84d62 config: update size information
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2018-12-28 03:20:17 +01:00
Denys Vlasenko
798b94518e ubi tools: ubiupdatevol supports "-" input and actually respects -s SIZE
Decided to not make any flash applets NOEXEC.
Minor robustifications here and there. Better error messages. Save on strings:

function                                             old     new   delta
ubi_tools_main                                      1235    1288     +53
ubi_get_volid_by_name                                125     133      +8
ubirename_main                                       198     204      +6
get_num_from_file                                     90      94      +4
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(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 4/0 up/down: 71/0)               Total: 71 bytes
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 915696	    485	   6880	 923061	  e15b5	busybox_old
 915670	    485	   6880	 923035	  e159b	busybox_unstripped

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2017-08-07 16:00:25 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
72089cf6b4 config: deindent all help texts
Those two spaces after tab have no effect, and always a nuisance when editing.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2017-07-21 09:50:55 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
4eed2c6c50 Update menuconfig items with approximate applet sizes
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2017-07-18 22:01:24 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
6aab9928de whitespace and namespace cleanups
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2016-04-03 22:24:51 +02:00
Sven Eisenberg
b068cf2a7e ubirmvol: Implement -N switch for ubirmvol
function                                             old     new   delta
get_volid_by_name                                      -     125    +125
ubi_devnum_from_devname                                -      43     +43
ubi_tools_main                                      1215    1220      +5
packed_usage                                       30674   30655     -19
ubirename_main                                       394     221    -173
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(add/remove: 3/0 grow/shrink: 1/2 up/down: 173/-192)          Total: -19 bytes

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2016-04-03 22:01:43 +02:00
Sven Eisenberg
cb92640998 ubirename: new applet
function                                             old     new   delta
ubirename_main                                         -     394    +394
packed_usage                                       30611   30674     +63
applet_names                                        2530    2540     +10

Signed-off-by: Sven Eisenberg <sven.eisenberg@novero.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2016-04-03 20:12:03 +02:00