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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2010-05-31 16:48:09 +0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-06-10 21:28:43 -0700
commitc6de9f08912311ddc1b3502b90e10fd449acd401 (patch)
tree76c59689a86e3c0f614b689f3457bcc11a17dbcc /include/linux/kernel.h
parent3c417588603e5411f29d22a40f3b5ff71529a4f0 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 8317ec4b9f3..3bf740bb069 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -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)));