linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] zram: deprecate zram attrs sysfs nodes

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:10:35 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] zram: deprecate zram attrs sysfs nodes

Hi Minchan,

On (03/13/15 08:55), Minchan Kim wrote:
> How about adding pid, comm? Admin can know which process touches.
> 

ok.

> >  	struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(d);				\
> > +									\
> > +	deprecated_attr_warn(__stringify(name));			\
> 
> It just reports once for first-touched stat and miss other stats by ZRAM_ATTR_RO.
> Of course, you warned "See zram documentation" so he might know about other stats
> plan, too. If it's your intention, let's make warn more clear.
> 

yes, we have a "go and read docs" warning. documentation explains it in details.
so I think one warning is enough.

> "Atrribute $s will be removed. Also, there are other stats we will remove
> in future. See Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt"
> 

I didn't want it to be tooooooooooooooo long (and still don't want).
"Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt" is not a path which a regular user
can just copy-paste and use to access the documentation. so I'd prefer
to keep it as "See zram documentation".

How about this? (well, a multi-line string.)

---

 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 2aced91..7f19196 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ static unsigned int num_devices = 1;
 
 static inline void deprecated_attr_warn(const char *name)
 {
-	pr_warn_once("Attribute %s will be removed. See zram documentation.\n",
+	pr_warn_once("%d (%s): Attribute %s (and others) will be removed. "
+			"See zram documentation.\n",
+			task_pid_nr(current),
+			current->comm,
 			name);
 }
 
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