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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Changki Kim <changki.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: pmladek@suse.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, john.ogness@linutronix.de,
	changbin.du@intel.com, masahiroy@kernel.org, rd.dunlap@gmail.com,
	krzk@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: printk: Add process name information to printk() output.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:05:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904090535.GA2440145@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200904082438.20707-1-changki.kim@samsung.com>

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:24:38PM +0900, Changki Kim wrote:
> Printk() meesages are the most basic and useful debug method.
> However, additional information needs in multi-processor.
> If we add messages with processor id and process name, we can find
> a problem only with messages when the problem occurs with H/W IP or CPU.
> This is very useful in narrowing down the scope of the problems.
> 
> Therefore, instead of trying to help buffering, let's try to help
> reconstructing messages by saving caller information as of calling
> log_store() and adding it as "[$processor_id: $process_name: $thread_id]"
> upon printing to consoles.
> 
> Some examples for console output:
> 
>   [    0.059580] [0:      swapper/0:    1] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL1i
>   [    2.153157] [5:           init:    1] migov: complete to probe migov
>   [    7.441317] [4:           init:    1] NET: Registered protocol family 39
>   [   22.793389] [5:  kworker/u16:1:  184] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changki Kim <changki.kim@samsung.com>
> ---
>  kernel/printk/printk.c            | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h |  7 +++++++
>  lib/Kconfig.debug                 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Isn't the CPU number already present if you want it today?  Why add it
again?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200904082449epcas2p4420d5df2083325b328a182c79f5c0948@epcas2p4.samsung.com>
2020-09-04  8:24 ` printk: Add process name information to printk() output Changki Kim
2020-09-04  9:05   ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-09-04  9:31     ` 김창기
2020-09-04 10:34       ` 'Greg KH'
2020-09-07  1:48         ` 김창기
2020-09-04  9:47   ` John Ogness
2020-09-04 10:35     ` Greg KH
2020-09-04 19:27       ` Joe Perches
2020-09-04 12:45     ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-04 13:17       ` John Ogness
2020-09-04 15:13         ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-04 23:27           ` John Ogness
2020-09-07  9:28             ` 김창기
2020-09-07  9:54             ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-07 10:30               ` John Ogness
2020-09-07 15:47                 ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-11  9:50       ` [POC] printk: Convert dict ring into array Petr Mladek
2020-09-11 10:32         ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-11 11:09           ` John Ogness

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