Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Silence an annoying boot message

From: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:15:32 -0600

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:53:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> vmemmap_populate will printk (with KERN_WARNING) for a lot of pages
> if CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is enabled (at least it does on iSeries).
> Turn it into a DEBUG message.
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> index d9c82d3..ee0e0cc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(struct page *start_page,
>  		if (!p)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "vmemmap %08lx allocated at %p, "
> +		DBG(KERN_DEBUG "vmemmap %08lx allocated at %p, "
>  		                    "physical %08lx.\n", start, p, __pa(p));

Please use pr_debug() instead.

Feel free to change the only other DBG() user in the file as well,
and take out the define of it

-Olof