Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753749AbcCRSMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:12:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40879 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750811AbcCRSML (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:12:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:12:06 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: Fix output Message-ID: <20160318181206.GS64531@redhat.com> References: <20160318152802.407611377@infradead.org> <20160318153022.027826871@infradead.org> <20160318163748.GR64531@redhat.com> <20160318164441.GI6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160318164858.GX6375@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160318164858.GX6375@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 19 On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:48:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:44:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > > Would something like this be a better patch? > > > > > -#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt > > > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Lockup detector: " fmt > > You might want to audit all the other pr_ nonsense in that file; a lot > of the msgs don't particularly make sense when combined with the prefix. > > Some are for the NMI thing, others for the soft lockup one. > > I would just chuck pr_crap() altogether and use sensible text. Hehe. I'll look into that next week. :-) Cheers, Don