linux-kernel - [PATCH V3b] x86, cpu: trivial printk formatting fixes

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Message-Id: <1415227938-16927-1-git-send-email-stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed,  5 Nov 2014 22:52:18 +0000
From:	Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3b] x86, cpu: trivial printk formatting fixes

dmesg (from util-linux) currently has two methods for reading the kernel message ring buffer: /dev/kmsg and syslog(2). Since kernel 3.5.0 kmsg has been the default, which escapes control characters (e.g. new lines) before they are shown.

This change means that when dmesg is using /dev/kmsg, a 2 line printk makes the output messy, because the second line does not get a timestamp.
For example:

[    0.012863] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[    0.012869] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024
Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024, 1GB 4
[    0.012958] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 28K (ffffffff81d86000 - ffffffff81d8d000)
[    0.014961] dmar: Host address width 39

Because printk.c intentionally escapes control characters, they should not be there in the first place.
This patch fixes two occurrences of this.

V2: Revert change to log level, only fix the newline formatting issue
V3: Expand patch description
V3b: Fix silly mistake (log level) 

Signed-off-by: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 11 ++++++-----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c  |  6 ++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 4b4f78c..fbdd7bf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -494,12 +494,13 @@ void cpu_detect_tlb(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	if (this_cpu->c_detect_tlb)
 		this_cpu->c_detect_tlb(c);
 
-	printk(KERN_INFO "Last level iTLB entries: 4KB %d, 2MB %d, 4MB %d\n"
-		"Last level dTLB entries: 4KB %d, 2MB %d, 4MB %d, 1GB %d\n",
+	pr_info("Last level iTLB entries: 4KB %d, 2MB %d, 4MB %d\n",
 		tlb_lli_4k[ENTRIES], tlb_lli_2m[ENTRIES],
-		tlb_lli_4m[ENTRIES], tlb_lld_4k[ENTRIES],
-		tlb_lld_2m[ENTRIES], tlb_lld_4m[ENTRIES],
-		tlb_lld_1g[ENTRIES]);
+		tlb_lli_4m[ENTRIES]);
+
+	pr_info("Last level dTLB entries: 4KB %d, 2MB %d, 4MB %d, 1GB %d\n",
+		tlb_lld_4k[ENTRIES], tlb_lld_2m[ENTRIES],
+		tlb_lld_4m[ENTRIES], tlb_lld_1g[ENTRIES]);
 }
 
 void detect_ht(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 9cc6b6f..dcd08a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -487,10 +487,8 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
 		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, epb);
 		if ((epb & 0xF) == ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_PERFORMANCE) {
-			printk_once(KERN_WARNING "ENERGY_PERF_BIAS:"
-				" Set to 'normal', was 'performance'\n"
-				"ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with"
-				" x86_energy_perf_policy(8)\n");
+			pr_warn_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'\n");
+			pr_warn_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)\n");
 			epb = (epb & ~0xF) | ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_NORMAL;
 			wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, epb);
 		}
-- 
2.1.3

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