Re: [PATCH] cifs: trivial: cleanup fscache cFYI and cERROR messages

[Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/15/2011 06:28 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:10:45 +0530
> Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/14/2011 09:30 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:07:47 +0530
>>> Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... for uniformity and cleaner debug logs.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>  fs/cifs/cache.c   |    6 +++---
>>>>  fs/cifs/fscache.c |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>>>>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cache.c b/fs/cifs/cache.c
>>>> index dd8584d..545509c 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/cifs/cache.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/cifs/cache.c
>>>> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static uint16_t cifs_server_get_key(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
>>>>  		break;
>>>>  
>>>>  	default:
>>>> -		cERROR(1, "CIFS: Unknown network family '%d'", sa->sa_family);
>>>> +		cERROR(1, "Unknown network family '%d'", sa->sa_family);
>>> 			^^^^^^^^^
>>> 		Maybe this would be a good time to add in a new
>>> 		cFYI/cERROR "flag" for fscache and convert all of these
>>> 		to use it?
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to flag fsc debug messages separately but
>> flagging errors separately would be useful?
>>
> 
> Good point. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure what purpose the
> first argument to cERROR serves. Might be a good thing to do a global
> search and replace -- "s/cERROR(1, /cERROR(/" and fix up the macro.

Yes, we need to always print errors. I'll fix it up.

>> Also, I don't understand the idea behing the "set" currently.
>>
>> we have
>>
>> #define cFYI(set, fmt, arg...)                  \
>> do {                                            \
>>         if (set)                                \
>>                 cifsfyi(fmt, ##arg);            \
>> } while (0)
>>
>> and we call cFYI with always pass like this:
>> 	cFYI(1, "..");
>>
>>
> 
> I think for cFYI, the idea was to have a bitmask that would allow you
> to selectively turn on certain classes of debug messages (similar to

I thought so but the usage confused me.

> how NFS' dfprintk macro works). In practice though, it's rarely set to
> anything but "1". Maybe we should consider eliminating that argument as
> well?

I'll see what it takes to fix it up to use bitmask and perhaps add a
bitmask for fsc. But, I might be a little slow on this one.


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman