Commit c6de9f08 authored May 31, 2010 by Huang Ying Committed by H. Peter Anvin Jun 10, 2010

x86, mce: Add HW_ERR printk prefix for hardware error logging



This makes hardware error related log in printk log more explicit. So
that the users can report it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or
software vendor.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1275295689.3444.462.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

parent 3c417588

include/linux/kernel.h

+7 −0

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		@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ extern struct pid session_of_pgrp(struct pid pgrp);
		#define FW_WARN "[Firmware Warn]: "
		#define FW_INFO "[Firmware Info]: "

		/*
		* HW_ERR
		* Add this to a message for hardware errors, so that user can report
		* it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor.
		*/
		#define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: "

		#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
		asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
		__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));