linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 24/24] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add commandline option for SBI PMU test

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Message-ID: <20240423-b25d0b1540d2092f5370afa5@orel>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:56:30 +0200
From: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@...osinc.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, 
	Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>, Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, samuel.holland@...ive.com, 
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, 
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, 
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, 
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 24/24] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add commandline option
 for SBI PMU test

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 02:03:29PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
..
> > +	pr_info("Usage: %s [-h] [-d <test name>]\n", name);
> A little weird that we have pr_info named helper to print logs when it is a
> userspace application, not kernel code. I'll check it in the source who
> added it to the KVM tests.
>

It was me, as git-blame will easily show you. Why is it "weird"?
Applications have needs for pr_info-like functions too, and the pr_info
name isn't reserved for the kernel. The only thing weird I see is that
I didn't differentiate pr_debug and pr_info messages. I probably should
have at least given pr_debug output a 'debug:' prefix.

Thanks,
drew