Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754301AbaDNWza (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:55:30 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52901 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750796AbaDNWz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:55:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:55:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Mitchel Humpherys Cc: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Joe Perches , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* Message-Id: <20140414155526.96b0832bf4660c026bc3a1d9@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1395942859-11611-2-git-send-email-mitchelh@codeaurora.org> References: <1395942859-11611-1-git-send-email-mitchelh@codeaurora.org> <1395942859-11611-2-git-send-email-mitchelh@codeaurora.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:54:19 -0700 Mitchel Humpherys wrote: > printk is meant to be used with an associated log level. There are some > instances of printk scattered around the mm code where the log level is > missing. Add a log level and adhere to suggestions by > scripts/checkpatch.pl by moving to the pr_* macros. > hm, this is a functional change. > --- a/mm/bounce.c > +++ b/mm/bounce.c > @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ > * - Split from highmem.c > */ > > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt Because of this. > #include > #include > #include > @@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > #include > > #include > @@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ static __init int init_emergency_pool(void) > > page_pool = mempool_create_page_pool(POOL_SIZE, 0); > BUG_ON(!page_pool); > - printk("bounce pool size: %d pages\n", POOL_SIZE); > + pr_info("bounce pool size: %d pages\n", POOL_SIZE); This used to print "bounce pool size: N pages" but will now print "bounce: bounce pool size: N pages". It isn't necessarily a *bad* change but perhaps a little more thought could be put into it. In this example it would be better remove the redundancy by using pr_info("pool size: %d pages\n"...); And all of this should be described and justified in the changelog, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/