linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] aerdrv: Cleanup log output for CPER based AER

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Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:39:23 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@...com>
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, lance_ortiz@...mail.com, jiang.liu@...wei.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com, bp@...en8.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	mchehab@...hat.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] aerdrv: Cleanup log output for CPER based AER

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 10:04 -0700, Lance Ortiz wrote:
> These changes make cper_print_aer more consistent with aer_print_error
> which is called in the AER interrupt case. The string in the variable
> 'prefix' is printed at the beginning of each print statement in
> cper_print_aer(). The prefix is a string containing the driver name
> and the device's slot location.  From the callers the value of prefix
> is never assigned and is NULL, so when cper_print_aer prints data the
> initial string does not get printed.  This string is important because
> it identifies the device that the error is on.

Hi again Lance.

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_errprint.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_errprint.c
[]
> @@ -228,9 +228,14 @@ void cper_print_aer(struct pci_dev *dev, int cper_severity,
>  	int aer_severity, layer, agent, status_strs_size, tlp_header_valid = 0;
>  	u32 status, mask;
>  	const char **status_strs;
> -	char *prefix = NULL;
> +	char prefix[44];
>  
>  	aer_severity = cper_severity_to_aer(cper_severity);
> +	snprintf(prefix, sizeof(prefix), "%s%s %s: ",
> +		(aer_severity == AER_CORRECTABLE) ?
> +		KERN_WARNING : KERN_ERR,
> +		dev_driver_string(&dev->dev), dev_name(&dev->dev));
> +
>  	if (aer_severity == AER_CORRECTABLE) {
>  		status = aer->cor_status;
>  		mask = aer->cor_mask;

Perhaps this would be better just using dev_printk
instead of snprintf into a prefix with printk to
emulate dev_printk.

Also, perhaps KERN_NOTICE is preferable to KERN_WARNING
in the CORRECTABLE case.

Maybe something like:

	const char *level = KERN_ERR;
	if (aer_severity == AER_CORRECTABLE)
		level = KERN_NOTICE;

	...

	dev_printk(level, &dev->dev, etc...);

Maybe do this after this series of patches is accepted.
Enough with the revisions for awhile...

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