In older kernels, the log level and the log flags/facility are not
separated. Since the log level is only the last three bits, and the
flags/facility and level are separated in the upstream kernel, only
print those last three bits when using 'log -m'.
Suggested-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
defs.h | 1 +
help.c | 7 ++++---
kernel.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h
index 35cdac2..35b983a 100644
--- a/defs.h
+++ b/defs.h
@@ -5627,6 +5627,7 @@ void clone_bt_info(struct bt_info *, struct bt_info *, struct task_context *);
void dump_kernel_table(int);
void dump_bt_info(struct bt_info *, char *where);
void dump_log(int);
+#define LOG_LEVEL(v) ((v) & 0x07)
#define SHOW_LOG_LEVEL (0x1)
#define SHOW_LOG_DICT (0x2)
#define SHOW_LOG_TEXT (0x4)
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 587c717..62e27d0 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -3904,10 +3904,11 @@ char *help_log[] = {
" -d Display the dictionary of key/value pair properties that are optionally",
" appended to a message by the kernel's dev_printk() function; only",
" applicable to the variable-length record format.",
-" -m Display the message log level in brackets preceding each message. For",
+" -m Display the message log level in brackets preceding each message. For",
" the variable-length record format, the level will be displayed in ",
-" hexadecimal, and depending upon the kernel version, also contains the",
-" facility or flags bits.",
+" hexadecimal. In older kernels, by default, the facility/flag bits ",
+" will be stripped to only show the level, but if needed, can still be ",
+" shown with 'set debug 1'.",
" -a Dump the audit logs remaining in kernel audit buffers that have not",
" been copied out to the user-space audit daemon.",
" ",
diff --git a/kernel.c b/kernel.c
index ac765e3..735263c 100644
--- a/kernel.c
+++ b/kernel.c
@@ -5262,6 +5262,8 @@ dump_log_entry(char *logptr, int msg_flags)
fprintf(fp, "%s", buf);
}
+ level = LOG_LEVEL(level);
+
if (msg_flags & SHOW_LOG_LEVEL) {
sprintf(buf, "<%x>", level);
ilen += strlen(buf);
--
2.17.2
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