Re: [PATCH 3/3] refscale: always log the error message

["lizhijian@fujitsu.com" <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>]

On 26/10/2021 22:06, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 06:12:40AM +0000, lizhijian@fujitsu.com wrote:
>>
>> On 25/10/2021 11:26, Li Zhijian wrote:
>>> Generally, error message should be logged anyhow.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>> ---
>>>    kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 8 ++++----
>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
>>> index a4479f00dcdc..f055d168365a 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
>>> @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ do {											\
>>>    	}										\
>>>    } while (0)
>>>    
>>> -#define VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING(s, x...) \
>>> -	do { if (verbose) pr_alert("%s" SCALE_FLAG "!!! " s, scale_type, ## x); } while (0)
>>> +#define SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING(s, x...) \
>>> +	do { pr_alert("%s" SCALE_FLAG "!!! " s, scale_type, ## x); } while (0)
>>>    
>>>    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>>    MODULE_AUTHOR("Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>");
>>> @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)
>>>    	result_avg = kzalloc(nruns * sizeof(*result_avg), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>    	buf = kzalloc(800 + 64, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>    	if (!result_avg || !buf) {
>>> -		VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
>>> +		SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
>> '\n' should be added to the last to flush it.
> And there might well be other missing "\n" instances in similar messages
> in rcuscale.c, rcutorture.c, scftorture.c, locktorture.c, and torture.c.
> Please feel free to send a patch for each file needing this help.

Sure, i will do that.

Thanks
Zhijian

> I queued your other three patches for v5.17 (not this coming merge window,
> but the one after that), thank you!  I did wordsmith the commit logs,
> so please check to see if I messed anything up.
>
> 							Thanx, Paul
>
>>>    		goto oom_exit;
>>>    	}
>>>    	if (holdoff)
>>> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
>>>    	reader_tasks = kcalloc(nreaders, sizeof(reader_tasks[0]),
>>>    			       GFP_KERNEL);
>>>    	if (!reader_tasks) {
>>> -		VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
>>> +		SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
>> ditto
>>
>> Thanks
>> Zhijian
>>>    		firsterr = -ENOMEM;
>>>    		goto unwind;
>>>    	}