linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/18] rcu: Use pr_fmt to prefix "rcu: " to logging output

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Message-ID: <0cb282d85c37d9b626933a03574848d17430f04c.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 17:23:59 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] rcu: Use pr_fmt to prefix "rcu: " to logging
 output

On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 16:58 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> OK, so if I define pr_fmt as follows, I get the old behavior?
> 
> 	#define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt

yes.

> I just queued
> a commit to be squashed into my version of your patch 18/18 that adds
> this to kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c.  This joins the ones that your
> patch added to kernel/rcu/srcutree.c and kernel/rcu/tree.c.
> 
> Should I also add "#define pr_fmt(fmt) "rcu: " fmt" to these files?
> 
> kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
> kernel/rcu/sync.c
> kernel/rcu/tiny.c

Well, I don't actually remember why the define
was added to rcu_segcblist.c.

Most of this was done via a script which looked
for pr_<level> uses without a pr_fmt in the same
file.

Dunno why rcu_segcblist was modified.
Maybe it was a braino.