On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 17:48 +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.
or change to #define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt
and output whatever unprefixed content you want.
btw: the first printk/pr_emerg should add a newline
pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu);
sb:
pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d\n", this_cpu);
