On (01/05/16 00:11), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> `recursion_bug' occupies 4 bytes to just tell us there was a recent
> recursion bug (basically 'bool'). Make it a bit more informative and
> keep in `recursion_bug' smp_processor_id of the CPU (the most recent
> one) that has caused a recursive printk bug. For instance, the error
> message will change from
>       BUG: recent printk recursion!
> to
>       BUG: recent printk recursion on CPU5!
> 

on the other hand -- no, this is silly. disregard, sorry. It's just my
setup that confused me.

but I think we can change `recursion_bug' type to `bool'. what do you think?

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>From d772453988289efc3bae5598c3c12c6e7ffb801a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:21:17 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] printk: change recursion_bug type to bool

`recursion_bug' is used as recursion_bug toggle, so make it `bool'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 1fc89ba..d0b8697 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
                            const char *dict, size_t dictlen,
                            const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
-       static int recursion_bug;
+       static bool recursion_bug;
        static char textbuf[LOG_LINE_MAX];
        char *text = textbuf;
        size_t text_len = 0;
@@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
                 * it can be printed at the next appropriate moment:
                 */
                if (!oops_in_progress && !lockdep_recursing(current)) {
-                       recursion_bug = 1;
+                       recursion_bug = true;
                        local_irq_restore(flags);
                        return 0;
                }
@@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
                static const char recursion_msg[] =
                        "BUG: recent printk recursion!";
 
-               recursion_bug = 0;
+               recursion_bug = false;
                /* emit KERN_CRIT message */
                printed_len += log_store(0, 2, LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE, 0,
                                         NULL, 0, recursion_msg,
-- 
2.7.0.rc0.20.g4b9ab0e

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