linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 3/3] ACPI, APEI, report GHES error information via printk

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Message-ID: <1291088107.12648.101.camel@yhuang-dev>
Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:35:07 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 3/3] ACPI, APEI, report GHES error information via
 printk

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:07 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:51:41 +0800 Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > printk is one of the methods to report hardware errors to user space.
> > This patch implements hardware error reporting for GHES via printk.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > @@ -255,11 +255,23 @@ static void ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *gh
> >  		}
> >  #endif
> >  	}
> > +}
> >  
> > -	if (!processed && printk_ratelimit())
> > -		pr_warning(GHES_PFX
> > -		"Unknown error record from generic hardware error source: %d\n",
> > -			   ghes->generic->header.source_id);
> > +static void ghes_print_estatus(const char *pfx, struct ghes *ghes)
> > +{
> > +	if (pfx == NULL) {
> > +		if (ghes_severity(ghes->estatus->error_severity) <=
> > +		    GHES_SEV_CORRECTED)
> > +			pfx = KERN_WARNING HW_ERR;
> > +		else
> > +			pfx = KERN_ERR HW_ERR;
> > +	}
> > +	if (printk_ratelimit()) {
> > +		printk(
> > +	"%s""Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: %d\n",
> > +	pfx, ghes->generic->header.source_id);
> > +		apei_estatus_print(pfx, ghes->estatus);
> 
> That code layout is just ghastly.  Please, if it can't be done nicely
> in 80-cols then simply exceed the 80 cols.

Just for printk, I think sometimes it may be helpful to put the "format"
string at a new line in source code. Because it may be helpful to check
whether the resulting string from printk fits 80 cols.

> And please don't use (or retain) printk_ratelimit().  It was a mistake.
> A printk_ratelimt() site shares state with all other
> printk_ratelimit() states, so if a random firewire driver is doing a lot of
> printk_ratelimit() calls, your messages get suppressed!  Use
> printk_ratelimited() or __ratelimit().

Yes. Will change this.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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