[PATCH RESEND 0/5] bitmap: cleanup bitmaps printing

[Yury Norov]

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On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Yury Norov wrote:
> Bitmap API has a bitmap_print_to_pagebuf() function that is intended to
> print bitmap into a human readable format, making sure that the output
> string will not get big enough to cross the current page limit.
> 
> Some drivers use this function immediately before passing the result to
> scnprintf() with no modification. This is useless because scnprintf(),
> and helpers based on it like seq_pritf() and sysfs_emit(), take care of
> not overflowing the buffer by itself, and perfectly print bitmaps with
> "%*pb[l]".
> 
> This is a resend of non-networking part of [1]. Patches #3,5 switch from
> plain scnprintf() to sysfs_emit(), as pointed out by Thomas Weißschuh.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219181407.290201-1-ynorov@nvidia.com/
> 
> The networking part, for reference:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260303185507.111841-1-ynorov@nvidia.com/
> 
> Each patch can be applied individually per corresponding subsystem.
> 
> Yury Norov (5):
>   powerpc/xive: simplify xive_spapr_debug_show()
>   thermal: intel: switch cpumask_get() to using
>     cpumask_print_to_pagebuf()
>   coresight: don't use bitmap_print_to_pagebuf()
>   lib/prime_numbers: drop temporary buffer in dump_primes()
>   fpga: m10bmc-sec: switch show_canceled_csk() to using sysfs_emit()
> 
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c              | 12 ++-----
>  drivers/fpga/intel-m10-bmc-sec-update.c       |  3 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 32 ++++++++-----------
>  drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c      |  3 +-
>  lib/math/tests/prime_numbers_kunit.c          |  6 ++--
>  5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.43.0