Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86: get rid of KERN_CONT in show_fault_oops()

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 03:30:18 EST


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 14:38 +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> KERN_CONT leads to split lines in kernel output
>> and complicates useful changes to printk like
>> printing context before each line.
>>
>> Only acceptable use of continuations is basically
>> boot-time testing.
>>
>> Get rid of it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - use pr_alert() instead of printk(KERN_ALERT)
>> ---
>> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 10 +++-------
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> []
>> @@ -671,13 +671,9 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>> printk(smep_warning, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
>> }
>>
>> - printk(KERN_ALERT "BUG: unable to handle kernel ");
>> - if (address < PAGE_SIZE)
>> - printk(KERN_CONT "NULL pointer dereference");
>> - else
>> - printk(KERN_CONT "paging request");
>> -
>> - printk(KERN_CONT " at %px\n", (void *) address);
>> + pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle kernel %s at %px\n",
>> + (address < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" :
>> + "paging request"), (void *) address);
>
> Perhaps remove the used-once KERN_CRIT uses of
> nx_warning and smep_warning strings and maybe the
> unnecessary parentheses and spaces used here too.


Mailed v3 with both changes.

Andy actually already pointed to parentheses in v1 but I forgot about it in v2.