Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86_64: kasan: add message about kasan being initialized

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 30 2015 - 01:23:25 EST



* Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/20/2015 04:18 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Please call it 'kasan' or 'KASAN', and also explain it in the message and prefix
> > it properly with the subsystem name (kasan), so something like:
> >
> > pr_info("kasan: Kernel Address SANitizer (KASAN) initialized\n");
> >
> > Other kasan messages should also carry a 'kasan: ' prefix, so that it's
> > unambiguous what generated the message, and also to make it easier to grep out of
> > logs.
> >
>
> This patch adds "kasan: " prefix for all messages from this file ( +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "kasan: " fmt )
>
> I'm agree with Dmitry, I would choose kasan name too.
> In this case, adding explanation in the message will produce too much kasans in one short message:
>
> kasan: Kernel address sanitizer (kasan) initialized
>
> Perhaps it would be better to keep this patch as is. Ok?

So if there's a latest series of fixes to apply, please send it.

Thanks,

Ingo
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