linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] mm, memory-failure: clarify error message

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Message-Id: <1558403523-22079-1-git-send-email-jane.chu@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 19:52:03 -0600
From:   Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
To:     n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm, memory-failure: clarify error message

Some user who install SIGBUS handler that does longjmp out
therefore keeping the process alive is confused by the error
message
  "[188988.765862] Memory failure: 0x1840200: Killing
   cellsrv:33395 due to hardware memory corruption"
Slightly modify the error message to improve clarity.

Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index fc8b517..c4f4bcd 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static int kill_proc(struct to_kill *tk, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 	short addr_lsb = tk->size_shift;
 	int ret;
 
-	pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption\n",
+	pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: Sending SIGBUS to %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption\n",
 		pfn, t->comm, t->pid);
 
 	if ((flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) && t->mm == current->mm) {
-- 
1.8.3.1