On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:44:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > Would something like this be a better patch? > > > -#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt > > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Lockup detector: " fmt
You might want to audit all the other pr_ nonsense in that file; a lot of the msgs don't particularly make sense when combined with the prefix. Some are for the NMI thing, others for the soft lockup one. I would just chuck pr_crap() altogether and use sensible text.