linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: use KERN_CONT in dump

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Date:   Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:09:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
cc:     mingo@...e.hu, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use KERN_CONT in dump_pagetable()

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Jan Beulich wrote:

> The lack of newlines in preceding format strings is a clear indication
> that these were meant to be continuations of one another, and indeed
> output ends up quite a bit more compact (and readable) that way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c |   14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> --- 4.13-rc6/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ 4.13-rc6-x86-dumppgt-cont/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ static void dump_pagetable(unsigned long
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);
> -	printk("*pte = %0*Lx ", sizeof(*pte) * 2, (u64)pte_val(*pte));
> +	printk(KERN_CONT "*pte = %0*Lx ", sizeof(*pte) * 2, (u64)pte_val(*pte));

Can you please make that pr_cont() while at it and change the pure
printk()s in that function to pr_info()?

Thanks,

	tglx