Re: proc: more debugging for "already registered" case

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:59:02 GMT
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:

> Gitweb:
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=665020c35e89a9e0643e21561e4f8f967f4f2c4b
> Commit:     665020c35e89a9e0643e21561e4f8f967f4f2c4b Parent:
> a551b98d5f6fce5897d497abd8bfb262efb33d2a Author:     Alexey Dobriyan
> <adobriyan@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Sat Sep 13 02:33:06 2008 -0700
> Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Sat Sep 13 14:41:50 2008 -0700

>  		if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s'
> already "
> -					"registered\n", dp->name);
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s'
> already registered\n",
> +				dir->name, dp->name);
>  			dump_stack();
>  			break;

Hi Linus, Alexey,

when doing this change, might as well turn it into a WARN() instead;
that way kerneloops.org can collect these, and in addition, it uses then
a more standard form of reporting (including filename/line number etc)

so how about this:

>From 7b907eb010b308c1a41871ea1b6ffb79d2538f01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:51:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

Use WARN() rather than a printk() + backtrace();
this gives a more standard format message as well as complete
information (including line numbers etc) that will be collected
by kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 fs/proc/generic.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 7821589..60a359b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -547,9 +547,8 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
 
 	for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
 		if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
-			printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
+			WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
 				dir->name, dp->name);
-			dump_stack();
 			break;
 		}
 
-- 
1.5.5.1



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