linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] x86: memtest: adapt log messages

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Message-ID: <4995B1E7.4070908@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:46:15 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] x86: memtest: adapt log messages

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:53 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com> wrote:
>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>> +			printk(KERN_CONT "\n  %010llx - %010llx pattern %016llx",
>>> +			       t_start, t_start + t_size, cpu_to_be64(pattern));
>>> +#else
>>> +			printk(KERN_CONT "\n  %010llx - %010llx pattern %08x",
>>> +			       t_start, t_start + t_size, cpu_to_be32(pattern));
>>> +#endif
>> hm, is there really no cleaner way to do this?
> 
> Can we use this:
> 
> +			printk(KERN_CONT "\n  %010llx - %010llx pattern %016llx",
> +			       t_start, t_start + t_size, cpu_to_be64(pattern));
> 

Only if you don't mind 8 extra zeros on 32 bits.

There are other problems with this, too.  There is a KERN_CONT at the
end of it, but it starts a new line, and then doesn't have another
priority flag.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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