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Piccoli" In-Reply-To: <20220510134014.3923ccba@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, halves@canonical.com, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, peterz@infradead.org, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, feng.tang@intel.com, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, mikelley@microsoft.com, john.ogness@linutronix.de, bhe@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, paulmck@kernel.org, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, dyoung@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, pmladek@suse.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, keescook@chromium.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, bp@alien8.de, luto@kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, jgross@suse.com, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel@gpiccoli.net, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, senozhatsky@chromium.org, d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 10/05/2022 14:40, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:49:17 -0300 > "Guilherme G. Piccoli" wrote: > >> Currently we don't have a way to check if there are dumpers set, >> except counting the list members maybe. This patch introduces a very >> simple helper to provide this information, by just keeping track of >> registered/unregistered kmsg dumpers. It's going to be used on the >> panic path in the subsequent patch. > > FYI, it is considered "bad form" to reference in the change log "this > patch". We know this is a patch. The change log should just talk about what > is being done. So can you reword your change logs (you do this is almost > every patch). Here's what I would reword the above to be: > > Currently we don't have a way to check if there are dumpers set, except > perhaps by counting the list members. Introduce a very simple helper to > provide this information, by just keeping track of registered/unregistered > kmsg dumpers. This will simplify the refactoring of the panic path. Thanks for the hint, you're right - it's almost in all of my patches. I'll reword all of them (except the ones already merged) to remove this "bad form". Cheers, Guilherme