Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] power: process: use explicit levels for printk continuations

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Nov 25 2022 - 14:54:02 EST


On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 20:09 +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Many of the printk messages emitted during suspend and resume are
> emitted in fragments using pr_cont()/KERN_CONT.
>
> As during suspend and resume a lot of operations are happing in the
> kernel the chances are high that the fragments are interspersed with
> unrelated messages.
>
> In this case if no explicit level is specified for the fragments the
> standard level is applied, which by default is KERN_WARNING.
>
> If the user is only observing KERN_WARNING and *not* KERN_INFO messages
> they will see incomplete message fragments.
>
> By specifing the correct printk level also with the continuations this
> mismatch can be avoided.
> Also it reduces the amount of false-positive KERN_WARNING messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/power/process.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
[]
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(bool user_only)
> elapsed_msecs = ktime_to_ms(elapsed);
>
> if (todo) {
> - pr_cont("\n");
> + pr_info_cont("\n");

I think this isn't needed because of the immediately following pr_err.

> pr_err("Freezing of tasks %s after %d.%03d seconds "
> "(%d tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=%d):\n",
> wakeup ? "aborted" : "failed",