Re: [PATCH] WARN(): add a \n to the message printk

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 00:17:32 EST




On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And no, this does not necessarily fix Arjan's problem: it only adds the
> newline before printk's that _do_ have a KERN_<lvl> format. So now, in
> order to get the extra '\n' after the WARN_ON() line, somebody needs to
> make sure that the printk's in the warning printing have loglevels.
>
> Arjan?

The "print_modules()" function needs a KERN_WARNING in front of it.

Or something like this (on top of the patch I just sent out), which allows
you to specify loglevel that is just the default one, whatever that
happens to be. Using KERN_DEFAULT, of course.

Hmm?

Linus

---
include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++
kernel/module.c | 2 +-
kernel/printk.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 066bb1e..1b2e174 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ extern const char linux_proc_banner[];
#define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational */
#define KERN_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */

+/* Use the default kernel loglevel */
+#define KERN_DEFAULT "<d>"
/*
* Annotation for a "continued" line of log printout (only done after a
* line that had no enclosing \n). Only to be used by core/arch code
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index e4ab36c..215aaab 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2899,7 +2899,7 @@ void print_modules(void)
struct module *mod;
char buf[8];

- printk("Modules linked in:");
+ printk(KERN_DEFAULT "Modules linked in:");
/* Most callers should already have preempt disabled, but make sure */
preempt_disable();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list)
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a87770c..b4d97b5 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -696,6 +696,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
switch (c) {
case '0' ... '7': /* loglevel */
current_log_level = c - '0';
+ /* Fallthrough - make sure we're on a new line */
+ case 'd': /* KERN_DEFAULT */
if (!new_text_line) {
emit_log_char('\n');
new_text_line = 1;
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