Re: [PATCH] include KERN_* constant in printk calls

From: Chris Sanford
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 00:32:29 EST


On Tue, May 19 09 11:00, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Chris Sanford <crsanford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add the KERN_CONT constant to two printk calls.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Sanford <crsanford@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> > index 26efa47..6a2ed16 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> > @@ -7319,7 +7319,7 @@ static int sched_domain_debug_one(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu, int level,
> > printk(KERN_DEBUG "%*s domain %d: ", level, "", level);
> >
> > if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE)) {
> > - printk("does not load-balance\n");
> > + printk(KERN_CONT "does not load-balance\n");
> > if (sd->parent)
> > printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: !SD_LOAD_BALANCE domain"
> > " has parent");
> > @@ -7340,7 +7340,7 @@ static int sched_domain_debug_one(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu, int level,
> > printk(KERN_DEBUG "%*s groups:", level + 1, "");
> > do {
> > if (!group) {
> > - printk("\n");
> > + printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
> > printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: group is NULL\n");
> > break;
>
> Please use pr_cont() - and while at it, perhaps convert all other
> printk()s in sched.c from KERN_* to the pr_*() notation as well?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
> --

The KERN_DEBUG constant is used 5 times when DEBUG is undefined.
Doing a straight conversion from printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug( will
result in no messages being printed. Should these calls have a different
message type, should DEBUG be defined, or should something else be done?
Thanks,
Chris
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