itimer: Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:50:55 +0000 (10:50 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:00:30 +0000 (11:00 +0200)
David pointed out, that WARN_ONCE() to report usage of an deprecated
misfeature make folks unhappy. Use printk_once() instead.

Andrew told me to stop grumbling and to remove the silly typecast
while touching the file.

Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/itimer.c

index c70369a..8d262b4 100644 (file)
@@ -285,9 +285,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setitimer, int, which, struct itimerval __user *, value,
                if(copy_from_user(&set_buffer, value, sizeof(set_buffer)))
                        return -EFAULT;
        } else {
-               memset((char *) &set_buffer, 0, sizeof(set_buffer));
-               WARN_ONCE(1, "setitimer: new_value pointer is NULL."
-                         " Misfeature support will be removed\n");
+               memset(&set_buffer, 0, sizeof(set_buffer));
+               printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s calls setitimer() with new_value NULL pointer."
+                           " Misfeature support will be removed\n",
+                           current->comm);
        }
 
        error = do_setitimer(which, &set_buffer, ovalue ? &get_buffer : NULL);