[PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message

Minfei Huang mhuang at redhat.com
Tue Sep 22 09:07:04 PDT 2015


On 09/15/15 at 11:08am, Minfei Huang wrote:
> On 09/14/15 at 04:44pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 09/14/15 at 03:50pm, Minfei Huang wrote:
> > > On 09/13/15 at 11:52am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > > Minfei Huang <mnfhuang at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > kexec output message misses the prefix "kexec", when Dave Young split
> > > > > the kexec code. To keep the same format, add the prefix "kexec" to
> > > > > output message.
> > > > 
> > > > What of kexec_core? What of the messages that already have a prefix?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi, Eric.
> > > 
> > > Last commit(2965fa), Dave Young (dyoung at redhatcom) split the previous
> > > kernel/kexec.c into three pieces(kexec_core.c, kexec_file.c, kexec.c).
> > > The common functions used by both kexec and kexec_file are placed in
> > > file kernel/kexec_core.c.
> > > 
> > > The format of the output message likes "kexec: SYSC_kexec_load: hello,
> > > world" previously. Due to the missing prefix "kexec", now it like
> > > "SYSC_kexec_load: hello, world".
> > > 
> > > Dave Young misses the Macro pr_fmt to define the prefix output message
> > > in file kexec.c and kexec_file.c. I think the previous Macro was moved
> > > into the file kexec_core.c when Dave did the splitting.
> > 
> > I'm not sure it is proper to add prefix "kexec: " in all kexec*.c, so
> > only keep it in kexec_core.c.
> > 
> > There's already printks with prefix like "Kexec:", "crashkernel:" and
> > other strings. Adding another prefix before them looks odd. So either remove 
> > the prefix in kexec_core, or remove other prefixes already exists in kexec*.c
> > I would prefix to remove the "kexec:" prefix in kexec_core.c
> 
> Hi, Dave.
> 
> How about removing all of the prefix "crashkernel" in kexec_core. Thus
> we can be consistent with the output message prefix "kexec".

Ping, any comment is appreciate and helpful.

Thanks
Minfei



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