Re: [tip:x86/cleanups] x86: Remove pr_fmt duplicate logging prefixes

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 13:46:33 EST


On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 20:27 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:27:45PM -0700, tip-bot for Joe Perches wrote:
> > Commit-ID: 1de392f5d5e803663abbd8ed084233f154152bcd
> > Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1de392f5d5e803663abbd8ed084233f154152bcd
> > Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Thu, 10 May 2018 08:45:30 -0700
> > Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Sun, 13 May 2018 21:25:18 +0200
> >
> > x86: Remove pr_fmt duplicate logging prefixes
> >
> > Converting pr_fmt from a default simple #define to use KBUILD_MODNAME
> > added some duplicate prefixes.
> >
> > Remove the duplicate prefixes.
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> Maybe I'm missing something but this dropped the prefixes now
> completely:
>
> -e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> +BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>
> -e820: last_pfn = 0x43f000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
> +last_pfn = 0x43f000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
>
> -e820: last_pfn = 0x9d000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
> +last_pfn = 0x9d000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
>
> ...
>
> I don't think that was the intention.

Hi Borislav

It wasn't and isn't the intention.

This is a patch _series_, and all of the patches
from 4-18 depend on patch 3 which converts the
generic define in include/linux/printk.h

from
#define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt
to
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

Perhaps a better option, which could be done in
a v2 of the series, is to add a temporary
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
to each file modified in patches 4-18 and then
allow the follow-on script described in the 0/18
cover letter to remove those #defines

cheers, Joe