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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] x86: Use KERN_DEFAULT log-level in __show_regs()
Joe Perches kirjoitti:
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 10:26 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>>
>> Andrew Morton reported a strange looking kmemcheck warning:
>>
>> WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff88004fba6c20)
>> 0000000000000000310000000000000000000000000000002413000000c9ffff
>> u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u
>>
>> [<ffffffff810af3aa>] kmemleak_scan+0x25a/0x540
>> [<ffffffff810afbcb>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x5b/0xe0
>> [<ffffffff8104d0fe>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0
>> [<ffffffff81003074>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
>> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>>
>> The above printout is missing register dump completely. The problem here is
>> that the output comes from syslog which doesn't show KERN_INFO log-level
>> messages. We didn't see this before because both of us were testing on 32-bit
>> kernels which use the _default_ log-level.
>>
>> Fix that up by explicitly using KERN_DEFAULT log-level for __show_regs()
>> printks.
>>
>> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 4 ++--
>> arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 14 +++++++-------
>> arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
>> index 98c2cde..c6ee241 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
>> @@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ void show_regs_common(void)
>> if (!product)
>> product = "";
>>
>> - printk("\n");
>> - printk(KERN_INFO "Pid: %d, comm: %.20s %s %s %.*s %s/%s\n",
>> + printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
>> + printk(KERN_DEFAULT "Pid: %d, comm: %.20s %s %s %.*s %s/%s\n",
>
> What is the reason to convert KERN_INFO to KERN_DEFAULT here?

To be consistent with rest of __show_regs() log-levels.


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