Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc: use appropriate printk prioritylevel

From: Mandeep Singh Baines
Date: Wed Jan 26 2011 - 23:22:49 EST


Ryan Mallon (ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 12:29 PM, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> > printk()s without a priority level default to KERN_WARNING. To reduce
> > noise at KERN_WARNING, this patch set the priority level appriopriately
> > for unleveled printks()s. This should be useful to folks that look at
> > dmesg warnings closely.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> > @@ -4700,33 +4700,36 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
> > find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(zone_movable_pfn);
> >
> > /* Print out the zone ranges */
> > - printk("Zone PFN ranges:\n");
> > + printk(KERN_INFO "Zone PFN ranges:\n");
> > for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
> > if (i == ZONE_MOVABLE)
> > continue;
> > - printk(" %-8s ", zone_names[i]);
> > + printk(KERN_INFO " %-8s ", zone_names[i]);
> > if (arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[i] ==
> > arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[i])
> > printk("empty\n");
>
> Should be printk(KERN_CONT ... (or pr_cont).
>
> > else
> > - printk("%0#10lx -> %0#10lx\n",
> > + printk(KERN_INFO "%0#10lx -> %0#10lx\n",
> > arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[i],
> > arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[i]);
>
> The printk above doesn't have a trailing newline so this should be
> printk(KERN_CONT ...
>
> There are a couple of other places in this patch series that also need
> to be fixed in a similar manner.
>

D'oh. Good catch;)

The KERN_INFO here was unintentional. I had intended to leave it out.
The code I was looking at as a reference was just omitting KERN_ for
continuations. But I take it that the convention is to use KERN_CONT.
I'll fixup the patch series to use that.

I tried to use pr_ wherever the file was already using it or where I was
changing all printk()s. For files with many printk()s I just continued
using printk() to keep the patch small and also to avoid mixing printk
with pr_. However, if it is preferrable, I'm happy to replace all printk()s
with pr_ in the files I touch in the series.

> ~Ryan
>
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