[PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/numa: Print debug statements only when required

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 26 14:47:44 AEST 2021


* Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> [2021-08-25 23:01:42]:

> Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > * Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com> [2021-08-23 11:21:33]:
> >> Le 21/08/2021 à 12:25, Srikar Dronamraju a écrit :
> >> > Currently, a debug message gets printed every time an attempt to
> >> > add(remove) a CPU. However this is redundant if the CPU is already added
> >> > (removed) from the node.
> >> > 
> >
> > Its a fair point.
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Do you want me to resend this patch with s/pr_err/pr_warn for the above
> > line?
> 
> I think what I'd prefer is if we stopped using this custom dbg() stuff
> in numa.c, and cleaned up all the messages to use pr_xxx().
> 
> Those debug statements only appear if you boot with numa=debug, which is
> not documented anywhere and I had completely forgotten existed TBH.
> 
> These days there's CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG for turning on/off messages,
> which is much more flexible.
> 
> So can we drop the numa=debug bits, and convert all the dbg()s to
> pr_debug().
> 
> And then do a pass converting all the printk("NUMA: ") to pr_xxx() which
> will get "numa:" from pr_fmt().
> 
> cheers

Okay, will do the needful.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju


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