linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] staging: lustre: lnet: lnet: checkpatch.pl fixes

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Message-ID: <1432309337.29657.16.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 08:42:17 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
Cc:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Michael Shuey <shuey@...due.edu>,
	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>" <HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>,
	"<lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] staging: lustre: lnet: lnet: checkpatch.pl
 fixes

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 08:08 +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> On May 22, 2015, at 1:06 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 May 2015, Michael Shuey wrote:
> > 
> >> That's a task (of many) I've been putting on the back burner until the code
> >> is cleaner.  It's also a HUGE change, since there are debug macros
> >> everywhere, and they all check a #define'd mask to see if they should fire,
> >> and the behavior is likely governed by parts of the lustre user land tools
> >> as well.
> >> 
> >> Suggestions are welcome.  Do other parts of the linux kernel define complex
> >> debugging macros like these, or is this a lustre-ism?  Any suggestions on
> >> how to handle this more in line with existing drivers?
> > 
> > Once you decide what to do, you can use Coccinelle to make the changes for
> > you.  So you shouldn't be put off by the number of code sites to change.
> > 
> > The normal functions are pr_err, pr_warn, etc.  Perhaps you can follow
> > Joe's suggestions if you really need something more complicated.
> 
> Ideally leaving CERROR/CDEBUG in Lustre would be desirable from my perspective.

My issue with CERROR is the name is little misleading.
It's actually a debugging message.
#define CERROR(format, ...)  CDEBUG_LIMIT(D_ERROR, format, ## __VA_ARGS__)

I think it'd be clearer as
	lustre_debug(ERROR, ...
even if the name and use style is a little longer.

> It allows you fine grained control about what to collect and what to output
> into a (quite finite) kernel buffer (and over a quite slow serial console)
> and at the same time if you need more info, there's a buffer you can fetch
> separately that can grow much bigger and there's even a way to run a special
> daemon to scrub the buffer eagerly so none of it is lost.


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