linux-toradex.git/include/linux/printk.h, branch v3.7

printk: remove the now unnecessary "C" annotation for KERN_CONT

2012-07-31T00:25:14+00:00

Now that all KERN_ uses are prefixed with ASCII SOH, there is no
need for a KERN_CONT.  Keep it backward compatible by adding #define
KERN_CONT ""

Reduces kernel image size a thousand bytes.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: convert the format for KERN_ to a 2 byte pattern

2012-07-31T00:25:14+00:00

Instead of "<.>", use an ASCII SOH for the KERN_ prefix initiator.

This saves 1 byte per printk, thousands of bytes in a normal kernel.

No output changes are produced as vprintk_emit converts these uses to
"<.>".

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: add kern_levels.h to make KERN_ available for asm use

2012-07-31T00:25:13+00:00

Separate the printk.h file into 2 pieces so the definitions can be used in
asm files.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: add generic functions to find KERN_ headers

2012-07-31T00:25:13+00:00

The current form of a KERN_ is "<.>".

Add printk_get_level and printk_skip_level functions to handle these
formats.

These functions centralize tests of KERN_ so a future modification
can change the KERN_ style and shorten the number of bytes consumed
by these headers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build error and warning]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmsg: export printk records to the /dev/kmsg interface

2012-05-08T00:03:27+00:00

Support for multiple concurrent readers of /dev/kmsg, with read(),
seek(), poll() support. Output of message sequence numbers, to allow
userspace log consumers to reliably reconnect and reconstruct their
state at any given time. After open("/dev/kmsg"), read() always
returns *all* buffered records. If only future messages should be
read, SEEK_END can be used. In case records get overwritten while
/dev/kmsg is held open, or records get faster overwritten than they
are read, the next read() will return -EPIPE and the current reading
position gets updated to the next available record. The passed
sequence numbers allow the log consumer to calculate the amount of
lost messages.

  [root@mop ~]# cat /dev/kmsg
  5,0,0;Linux version 3.4.0-rc1+ (kay@mop) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120315 ...
  6,159,423091;ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff])
  7,160,424069;pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [io  0x0000-0x0cf7] (ignored)
   SUBSYSTEM=acpi
   DEVICE=+acpi:PNP0A03:00
  6,339,5140900;NET: Registered protocol family 10
  30,340,5690716;udevd[80]: starting version 181
  6,341,6081421;FDC 0 is a S82078B
  6,345,6154686;microcode: CPU0 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0
  7,346,6156968;sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
   SUBSYSTEM=scsi
   DEVICE=+scsi:1:0:0:0
  6,347,6289375;microcode: CPU1 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0

Cc: Karel Zak 
Tested-by: William Douglas 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer

2012-05-07T23:53:02+00:00

- Record-based stream instead of the traditional byte stream
  buffer. All records carry a 64 bit timestamp, the syslog facility
  and priority in the record header.

- Records consume almost the same amount, sometimes less memory than
  the traditional byte stream buffer (if printk_time is enabled). The record
  header is 16 bytes long, plus some padding bytes at the end if needed.
  The byte-stream buffer needed 3 chars for the syslog prefix, 15 char for
  the timestamp and a newline.

- Buffer management is based on message sequence numbers. When records
  need to be discarded, the reading heads move on to the next full
  record. Unlike the byte-stream buffer, no old logged lines get
  truncated or partly overwritten by new ones. Sequence numbers also
  allow consumers of the log stream to get notified if any message in
  the stream they are about to read gets discarded during the time
  of reading.

- Better buffered IO support for KERN_CONT continuation lines, when printk()
  is called multiple times for a single line. The use of KERN_CONT is now
  mandatory to use continuation; a few places in the kernel need trivial fixes
  here. The buffering could possibly be extended to per-cpu variables to allow
  better thread-safety for multiple printk() invocations for a single line.

- Full-featured syslog facility value support. Different facilities
  can tag their messages. All userspace-injected messages enforce a
  facility value > 0 now, to be able to reliably distinguish them from
  the kernel-generated messages. Independent subsystems like a
  baseband processor running its own firmware, or a kernel-related
  userspace process can use their own unique facility values. Multiple
  independent log streams can co-exist that way in the same
  buffer. All share the same global sequence number counter to ensure
  proper ordering (and interleaving) and to allow the consumers of the
  log to reliably correlate the events from different facilities.

Tested-by: William Douglas 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2012-03-20T18:16:20+00:00

Pull driver core patches for 3.4-rc1 from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core merge for 3.4-rc1.

  Lots of various things here, sysfs fixes/tweaks (with the nlink
  breakage reverted), dynamic debugging updates, w1 drivers, hyperv
  driver updates, and a variety of other bits and pieces, full
  information in the shortlog."

* tag 'driver-core-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (78 commits)
  Tools: hv: Support enumeration from all the pools
  Tools: hv: Fully support the new KVP verbs in the user level daemon
  Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP messages in the driver
  Drivers: hv: Add new message types to enhance KVP
  regulator: Support driver probe deferral
  Revert "sysfs: Kill nlink counting."
  uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v3)
  driver core: minor comment formatting cleanups
  driver core: move the deferred probe pointer into the private area
  drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
  DS2781 Maxim Stand-Alone Fuel Gauge battery and w1 slave drivers
  w1_bq27000: Only one thread can access the bq27000 at a time.
  w1_bq27000 - remove w1_bq27000_write
  w1_bq27000: remove unnecessary NULL test.
  sysfs: Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata().
  intel_idle: Revert change of auto_demotion_disable_flags for Nehalem
  w1: Fix w1_bq27000
  driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address
  powernow-k6: Really enable auto-loading
  powernow-k7: Fix CPU family number
  ...

printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments

2012-03-12T19:43:16+00:00

There's a few awkward printk()s inside of scheduler guts that people
prefer to keep but really are rather deadlock prone. Fudge around it
by storing the text in a per-cpu buffer and poll it using the existing
printk_tick() handler.

This will drop output when its more frequent than once a tick, however
only the affinity thing could possible go that fast and for that just
one should suffice to notify the admin he's done something silly..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wua3lmkt3dg8nfts66o6brne@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

dynamic_debug: make dynamic-debug supersede DEBUG ccflag

2012-01-24T20:46:44+00:00

If CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is defined, honor it over DEBUG, so that
pr_debug()s are controllable, instead of always-on.  When DEBUG is
also defined, change _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT to enable printing by
default.

Also adding _DPRINTK_FLAGS_INCL_MODNAME would be nice, but there are
numerous cases of pr_debug(NAME ": ...), which would result in double
printing of module-name.  So defer this until things settle.

Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie 
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: use printf not attribute__((format(printf,...)))

2011-11-01T00:30:54+00:00

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
Standardized the location of __printf too.

Done via script and a little typing.

$ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \
  grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \
  xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }'

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds