[PATCH 32/94] ext4: clarify error count warning messages

[Sam Asadi]

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>

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>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: sam-the-6 <asadi.samuel at gmail.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 b9b9aab..3423947 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2809,10 +2809,11 @@ 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,
@@ -2826,7 +2827,7 @@ 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,
-- 
1.7.10.4