Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:04:10PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
>  > A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog is during
>  > boot-up especially with its expected failure cases (like virt and bios
>  > resource contention).
>  > 
>  > This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing for the end
>  > user.  What I did is print the message for cpu0 and save it for future
>  > comparisons.  If future cpus have an identical message as cpu0, then don't
>  > print the redundant info.  However, if a future cpu has a different message,
>  > happily print that loudly.
> 
> Would anyone object to compressing these lines too ?
>  
>  >     ... version:                2
>  >     ... bit width:              40
>  >     ... generic registers:      2
>  >     ... value mask:             000000ffffffffff
>  >     ... max period:             000000007fffffff
>  >     ... fixed-purpose events:   3
>  >     ... event mask:             0000000700000003
> 
> That's a lot of wasted space, that could just as easily take 
> up two lines without losing readability.

Yeah, we can do that, this was early debug code.

I'd suggest compressing it further, to a single line, to 
something like:

 ... ver: 2, regs: 2/3, bits: 40, masks: 0xffffffffff/0x700000003/0x7fffffff

Thanks,

	Ingo