linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: suppress verbose debugging information if malloc-debug is off

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Date:	Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:24:19 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: suppress verbose debugging information if malloc-debug is off

If CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is enabled, then if a block allocation fails due
to disk being full, a verbose debugging message is printed, even if
the malloc-debug switch has not been enabled.  Suppress the debugging
message so that nothing is printed unless malloc-debug has been turned
on.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 66bee72..2f6f0dd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -3912,7 +3912,8 @@ static void ext4_mb_show_ac(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 	struct super_block *sb = ac->ac_sb;
 	ext4_group_t ngroups, i;
 
-	if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED)
+	if (!mb_enable_debug ||
+	    (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED))
 		return;
 
 	printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: Can't allocate:"
-- 
1.7.3.1

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