[PATCH 1/3] kexec: Add debug printing of kimage table entries

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Oct 15 13:58:15 EDT 2013


On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:48 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Print a list of pages to be copied if debugging is enabled.
> Consecutive entries are merged to reduce screen clutter.
[]
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
[]
> +static void kimage_print_block(const struct kimage_block *block)
> +{
> +	pr_info("Copy from 0x%lx-0x%lx to 0x%lx-0x%lx (0x%lx bytes)\n",
> +		block->src, block->src + block->len - 1, block->dst,
> +		block->dst + block->len - 1, block->len);
> +}

Perhaps pr_debug and this maybe nicer to read like:

	pr_debug("kimage: Copy from 0x%lx-0x%lx to 0x%lx-0x%lx (0x%lx bytes)\n",
		 block->src, block->src + block->len - 1,
		 block->dst, block->dst + block->len - 1,
		 block->len);

Using a "kimage: " prefix could help grep too.




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