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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpu: trivial printk formatting fixes
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:17:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414862273.31550.4.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414856696-8094-1-git-send-email-stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 15:44 +0000, Steven Honeyman wrote:
> A 2 line printk makes dmesg output messy, because the second line does not get a timestamp.
> For example:
[]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
[]
> @@ -487,10 +487,8 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>  
>  		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, epb);
>  		if ((epb & 0xF) == ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_PERFORMANCE) {
> -			printk_once(KERN_WARNING "ENERGY_PERF_BIAS:"
> -				" Set to 'normal', was 'performance'\n"
> -				"ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with"
> -				" x86_energy_perf_policy(8)\n");
> +			pr_info_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'\n");
> +			pr_info_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)\n");

This changes the logging level.

You should either mention why in the changelog
or use pr_warn_once



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-01 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-01 15:44 [PATCH] x86, cpu: trivial printk formatting fixes Steven Honeyman
2014-11-01 17:17 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-11-01 17:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-01 17:38   ` Steven Honeyman
2014-11-01 17:51     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-02  4:03       ` Steven Honeyman
2014-11-02 11:13         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-01 17:57     ` Joe Perches

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