Re: [PATCH] memblock: Neaten logging

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Fri Oct 01 2021 - 19:12:10 EST


On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 01:34:10PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 09:37 -0700, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 06:27:15PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 14:12 -0700, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > Hi Joe,
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:43:14PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > Use more typical kernel logging styles.
> > > > >
> > > > > o Add and use #define pr_fmt KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > > >
> > > > I don't see it as an improvement. On the contrary, the output becomes
> > > > somewhat tautological:
> > >
> > > And rather easier to grep as the prefix is constant.
> >
> > memblock_ is perfectly greppable
>
> Of course, but only when it's there, 2 instances out of 9.

I didn't object to the patch as a whole. I just don't like the pr_fmt
definition.

> $ git grep '\bpr_' mm/memblock.c
> mm/memblock.c: pr_warn("Could not allocate %pap bytes of mirrored memory\n",
> mm/memblock.c: pr_err("memblock: Failed to double %s array from %ld to %ld entries !\n",
> mm/memblock.c: pr_warn("Could not allocate %pap bytes of mirrored memory\n",

These can have %s for __func__ as a prefix,

> mm/memblock.c: pr_warn("%s: No memory registered yet\n", __func__);

this one already has it,

> mm/memblock.c: pr_info(" %s.cnt = 0x%lx\n", type->name, type->cnt);
> mm/memblock.c: pr_info(" %s[%#x]\t[%pa-%pa], %pa bytes%s flags: %#x\n",
> mm/memblock.c: pr_info("MEMBLOCK configuration:\n");
> mm/memblock.c: pr_info(" memory size = %pa reserved size = %pa\n",

and these are just fine now even without the prefix.

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.