1/ convert open-coded KERN_ERR+dump_stack() to WARN(), so that automated tools pick up this warning. 2/ include the 'child' and 'parent' kobject names. This information was useful for tracking down the case where scsi invoked device_del() on a parent object and subsequently invoked device_add() on a child. Now the warning looks like: kobject_add_internal failed for target8:0:16 (error: -2 parent: end_device-8:0:24) Pid: 2942, comm: scsi_scan_8 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-isci+ #2 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125e551>] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3 [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8125e659>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8125e723>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8131124b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [<ffffffff8125e0ef>] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50 [<ffffffff8132f370>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [<ffffffff8132dce3>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- lib/kobject.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index c33d7a1..1bd0893 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj) /* be noisy on error issues */ if (error == -EEXIST) - printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s with " - "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with " - "the same name in the same directory.\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); + WARN(1, "%s failed for %s with " + "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with " + "the same name in the same directory.\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); else - printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s (%d)\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error); - dump_stack(); + WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error, + parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'"); } else kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html