[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: clarify error count warning messages" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: clarify error count warning messages

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d19a4206892310969c5cd4cd5104efd577ae9254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:40:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 13/41] ext4: clarify error count warning messages

commit ae0f78de2c43b6fadd007c231a352b13b5be8ed2 upstream.

Make it clear that values printed are times, and that it is error
since last fsck. Also add note about fsck version required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger at dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 09d4762ffe91..f9659f067147 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2725,10 +2725,11 @@ static void print_daily_error_info(unsigned long arg)
 	es = sbi->s_es;

 	if (es->s_error_count)
-		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "error count: %u",
+		/* fsck newer than v1.41.13 is needed to clean this condition. */
+		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "error count since last fsck: %u",
 			 le32_to_cpu(es->s_error_count));
 	if (es->s_first_error_time) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): initial error at %u: %.*s:%d",
+		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): initial error at time %u: %.*s:%d",
 		       sb->s_id, le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_error_time),
 		       (int) sizeof(es->s_first_error_func),
 		       es->s_first_error_func,
@@ -2742,7 +2743,7 @@ static void print_daily_error_info(unsigned long arg)
 		printk("\n");
 	}
 	if (es->s_last_error_time) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): last error at %u: %.*s:%d",
+		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): last error at time %u: %.*s:%d",
 		       sb->s_id, le32_to_cpu(es->s_last_error_time),
 		       (int) sizeof(es->s_last_error_func),
 		       es->s_last_error_func,
--
1.9.1