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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Salah Triki <salah.triki@acm.org>,
	ngupta@vflare.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] zram: Replace pr_* with dev_*
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:56:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150807065611.GI1891@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150807063756.GH1891@swordfish>

On (08/07/15 15:37), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
[..]
> we now have errors like
>  'zram: Cannot initialise lzo compressing backend'
> 
> and they will transform into
> 
>  'block zram0: Cannot initialise lzo compressing backend'
> 
> note the prefix 'zram:' became 'block zram0:'

but it doesn't come for free. where we had clean and nice

pr_err("Decompression failed!...
pr_info("Unable to allocate temp memory\n"...
etc...

now we have monsters

dev_err(disk_to_dev(zram->disk), "Decompression failed!...
dev_info(disk_to_dev(zram->disk), "Unable to allocate temp memory\n"...
etc.


other changes are very questionable... for example

   pr_info("Added device: %s\n", zram->disk->disk_name);
becomes
   dev_info(disk_to_dev(zram->disk), "Added device: %s\n", zram->disk->disk_name);


why? there is no reason to do this!



and messages are converted in a bit random manner, shall I say. so now
we have a mix of dev_* and pr_* errors. to convert them all to dev_* (which
is not possible in all the cases) we would need to change some function
prototypes and start passing zram pointer, or disk...

example:

static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(int device_id, u64 disksize)
{
        size_t num_pages;
        char pool_name[8];
        struct zram_meta *meta = kmalloc(sizeof(*meta), GFP_KERNEL);

        if (!meta)
                return NULL;

        num_pages = disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
        meta->table = vzalloc(num_pages * sizeof(*meta->table));
        if (!meta->table) {
                pr_err("Error allocating zram address table\n");
                goto out_error;
        }

        snprintf(pool_name, sizeof(pool_name), "zram%d", device_id);
        meta->mem_pool = zs_create_pool(pool_name, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
        if (!meta->mem_pool) {
                pr_err("Error creating memory pool\n");
                goto out_error;
        }
...



so I see a little value. really. too much things to change.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-06 22:57 [PATCH 0/3] zram: Replace pr_* with dev_* Salah Triki
2015-08-06 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] zram: Replace pr_info with dev_info in max_comp_streams_store Salah Triki
2015-08-06 23:03   ` [PATCH 2/3] zram: Replace pr_info with dev_info in comp_algorithm_store Salah Triki
2015-08-06 23:03     ` [PATCH 3/3] zram: Replace pr_* with dev_* Salah Triki
2015-08-07  0:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07  1:17   ` Joe Perches
2015-08-07  1:42     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07  1:48       ` Joe Perches
2015-08-07  2:03         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07  2:16           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07  6:05   ` Minchan Kim
2015-08-07  6:37     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07  6:56       ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2015-08-07  7:12         ` Joe Perches
2015-08-07  7:25           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-08-07 14:58       ` Minchan Kim
2015-08-10  1:25         ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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