Merge tag 'trace-seq-file-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into for-next

Pull the beginning of seq_file cleanup from Steven:
  "I'm looking to clean up the seq_file code and to eventually merge the
  trace_seq code with seq_file as well, since they basically do the same thing.

  Part of this process is to remove the return code of seq_printf() and friends
  as they are rather inconsistent. It is better to use the new function
  seq_has_overflowed() if you want to stop processing when the buffer
  is full. Note, if the buffer is full, the seq_file code will throw away
  the contents, allocate a bigger buffer, and then call your code again
  to fill in the data. The only thing that breaking out of the function
  early does is to save a little time which is probably never noticed.

  I started with patches from Joe Perches and modified them as well.
  There's many more places that need to be updated before we can convert
  seq_printf() and friends to return void. But this patch set introduces
  the seq_has_overflowed() and does some initial updates."

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 3a863f692728..88ab81c79109 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ file.
                                      struct dentry *parent,
                                      struct debugfs_regset32 *regset);
 
-    int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs,
+    void debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs,
                          int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix);
 
 The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index 8ea3e90ace07..b797ed38de46 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -180,23 +180,19 @@ output must be passed to the seq_file code. Some utility functions have
 been defined which make this task easy.
 
 Most code will simply use seq_printf(), which works pretty much like
-printk(), but which requires the seq_file pointer as an argument. It is
-common to ignore the return value from seq_printf(), but a function
-producing complicated output may want to check that value and quit if
-something non-zero is returned; an error return means that the seq_file
-buffer has been filled and further output will be discarded.
+printk(), but which requires the seq_file pointer as an argument.
 
 For straight character output, the following functions may be used:
 
-        int seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
-        int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
-        int seq_escape(struct seq_file *m, const char *s, const char *esc);
+        seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
+        seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
+        seq_escape(struct seq_file *m, const char *s, const char *esc);
 
 The first two output a single character and a string, just like one would
 expect. seq_escape() is like seq_puts(), except that any character in s
 which is in the string esc will be represented in octal form in the output.
 
-There is also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
+There are also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
 
         int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc);
         int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path,
@@ -209,6 +205,14 @@ root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root().  Note that, if it
 turns out that path cannot be reached from root, the value of root will be
 changed in seq_file_root() to a root which *does* work.
 
+A function producing complicated output may want to check
+        bool seq_has_overflowed(struct seq_file *m);
+and avoid further seq_<output> calls if true is returned.
+
+A true return from seq_has_overflowed means that the seq_file buffer will
+be discarded and the seq_show function will attempt to allocate a larger
+buffer and retry printing.
+
 
 Making it all work
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 20bf204426ca..43ce0507ee25 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ struct file_operations {
         ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
         int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **);
         long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
-        int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
+        void (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
 };
 
 Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless