From: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] scsi_error: do not display kernel pointer in message logs
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:12:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421068346.3891.163.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420699430-9492-10-git-send-email-hare@suse.de>
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 07:43 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> It is not good practice to display the kernel pointer
> in any message logs, and it doesn't display any additional
> information. And as we know have block-layer assigned tags
> we can use them to differentiate the messages.
> So remove any pointer references from the displayed messages.
>
I'd actually be sad to see this go -- I have found it useful
in the past when debugging crash dumps from customer sites
to be able to look in the kernel messages and see that a
particular scsi_cmnd had been aborted just before the crash
(and then later completed).
-Ewan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-08 6:43 [PATCHv4 0/9] scsi logging update: the real thing Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 1/9] scsi: Implement per-cpu logging buffer Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-13 18:41 ` James Bottomley
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/9] scsi: log request tag for scmd_printk() Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 3/9] scsi: use external buffer for command logging Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-13 18:56 ` James Bottomley
2015-01-14 9:36 ` hch
2015-01-14 15:24 ` James Bottomley
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 4/9] libata: use __scsi_format_command() Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 5/9] scsi: use per-cpu buffer for formatting sense Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 6/9] scsi: use per-cpu buffer for formatting scsi_print_result() Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 7/9] scsi: Conditionally compile in constants.c Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 8/9] scsi: Do not display buffer pointers in scsi_log_send() Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-08 6:43 ` [PATCH 9/9] scsi_error: do not display kernel pointer in message logs Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-10 19:17 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-01-11 18:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2015-01-12 13:12 ` Ewan Milne [this message]
2015-01-12 13:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-01-12 14:57 ` Ewan Milne
2015-01-12 15:18 ` Ewan Milne
2015-01-10 18:01 ` [PATCHv4 0/9] scsi logging update: the real thing Christoph Hellwig
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