On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:28:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > The pr_crap() functions generate idiotic output; use printk(). > > > > Broken output: > > > > [ 3538.718135] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! > > [perf_fuzzer:2646] > > [ 3383.233583] NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 27 > > > > Fixed output: > > > > [14180.328194] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [perf_fuzzer:13650] > > [ 1064.914925] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 11 > > Would something like this be a better patch?
> -#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Lockup detector: " fmt > - pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu); > + pr_emerg("Detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu); That still results in something like: Lockup detector: Detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 22 Which is still weird, doesn't mention NMI nor BUG (and when the NMI triggers it really rather frequently is a dead system).