Re: [PATCH 1/2] RDMA/rxe: add missing newline to rxe_set_mtu message

["Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)" <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>]

On 23/08/2023 14:59, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
> 
> 在 2023/8/23 14:47, Zhijian Li (Fujitsu) 写道:
>>
>> On 23/08/2023 14:35, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 2:25 PM Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)
>>> <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/08/2023 14:12, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>>>>> 在 2023/8/23 10:13, Li Zhijian 写道:
>>>>>> A newline help flushing message out.
>>>>> rxe_info_dev will finally call printk to output information.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this link https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst,
>>>>> "
>>>>> All printk() messages are printed to the kernel log buffer, which is a ring buffer exported to userspace through /dev/kmsg. The usual way to read it is using dmesg.
>>>>> "
>>>>> Do you mean that a new line will help the kernel log buffer flush message out?
>>>> Yeah, the message will be buffered until it is full or it meets a newline.
>>> Add PRINTK reviewers:
>>>
>>> Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
>>> Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
>>> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>>>    John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
>>>
>>> This is about printk. They can decide this commit.
>> I don't think it's a printk stuff.
> Do you get me?
> 
> I mean, prinkt reviewer will check the statement "the message will be buffered until it is full or it meets a newline." correct or not.


I'm sorry, i get confused. I thought you were talking about "this commit"

And i have post 2nd revision, please take a look.
[PATCH v2 1/2] RDMA/rxe: Improve newline in printing messages

Thanks
Zhijian




> 
> Zhu Yanjun
> 
>>
>> In general, when developers add some printk()/pr_info() to print some message in the kernel, they expect this message will be printed in time.
>> So most of the printk()/pr_info() calls in current kernel accompany a '\n' at the end.
>>
>> And printk() will also print message to 'console' by default, console could be a serial port(ttyS0) or tty1 etc.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Zhijian
>>
>>
>>> Zhu Yanjun
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Zhu Yanjun
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c | 2 +-
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
>>>>>> index 54c723a6edda..cb2c0d54aae1 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
>>>>>> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ void rxe_set_mtu(struct rxe_dev *rxe, unsigned int ndev_mtu)
>>>>>>         port->attr.active_mtu = mtu;
>>>>>>         port->mtu_cap = ib_mtu_enum_to_int(mtu);
>>>>>> -    rxe_info_dev(rxe, "Set mtu to %d", port->mtu_cap);
>>>>>> +    rxe_info_dev(rxe, "Set mtu to %d\n", port->mtu_cap);
>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>     /* called by ifc layer to create new rxe device.
>>>> >