The patch titled fs: use appropriate printk priority levels has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fs: use appropriate printk priority levels From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> printk()s without a priority level default to KERN_WARNING. To reduce noise at KERN_WARNING, this patch set the priority level appriopriately for unleveled printks()s. This should be useful to folks that look at dmesg warnings closely. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/bio.c | 2 +- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- init/do_mounts.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/bio.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level fs/bio.c --- a/fs/bio.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level +++ a/fs/bio.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *bio_find_or_cr if (!slab) goto out_unlock; - printk("bio: create slab <%s> at %d\n", bslab->name, entry); + printk(KERN_INFO "bio: create slab <%s> at %d\n", bslab->name, entry); bslab->slab = slab; bslab->slab_ref = 1; bslab->slab_size = sz; diff -puN fs/namespace.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level fs/namespace.c --- a/fs/namespace.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level +++ a/fs/namespace.c @@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ void __init mnt_init(void) if (!mount_hashtable) panic("Failed to allocate mount hash table\n"); - printk("Mount-cache hash table entries: %lu\n", HASH_SIZE); + printk(KERN_INFO "Mount-cache hash table entries: %lu\n", HASH_SIZE); for (u = 0; u < HASH_SIZE; u++) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mount_hashtable[u]); diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level init/do_mounts.c --- a/init/do_mounts.c~fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level +++ a/init/do_mounts.c @@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ static int __init do_mount_root(char *na sys_chdir((const char __user __force *)"/root"); ROOT_DEV = current->fs->pwd.mnt->mnt_sb->s_dev; - printk("VFS: Mounted root (%s filesystem)%s on device %u:%u.\n", + printk(KERN_INFO + "VFS: Mounted root (%s filesystem)%s on device %u:%u.\n", current->fs->pwd.mnt->mnt_sb->s_type->name, current->fs->pwd.mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY ? " readonly" : "", MAJOR(ROOT_DEV), MINOR(ROOT_DEV)); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-use-appropriate-printk-priority-level.patch printk-allow-setting-default_message_level-via-kconfig.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html