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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Franck Bui" <fbui@suse.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:45:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160705184517.GF12027@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160705142648.57456ef8@gandalf.local.home>

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:26:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > +	if (rs->missed)
> > +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %d output lines suppressed due to ratelimiting\n",
> > +		       current->comm, rs->missed);
> 
> Is the comm important?

Yes, we wanna dump the task name which called devkmsg_release().

> Maybe add the function that called it?
> 
>     "%pS", _THIS_IP_
> 
> Perhaps add __always_inline, as _THIS_IP_ will point into the function
> that calls this?

That would inadvertently be devkmsg_release() in this use case. But
we want to dump the task name which opened and spat so much crap into
/dev/kmsg so as to cause the ratelimiting to hit.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 14:24 [PATCH -v3 0/2] printk.devkmsg: Ratelimit it by default Borislav Petkov
2016-07-04 14:24 ` [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release Borislav Petkov
2016-07-05 18:26   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-05 18:45     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-07-05 18:57       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-05 19:42         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-05 19:49           ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-05 20:08             ` Joe Perches
2016-07-05 20:53               ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-05 21:14                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-05 21:23                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-05 21:31                 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-06 13:28   ` [PATCH -v3.1 " Borislav Petkov
2016-07-06 13:40     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-06 14:59       ` [PATCH -v3.2 " Borislav Petkov
2016-07-07  1:17         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-07  5:36           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-06 14:50     ` [PATCH -v3.1 " Joe Perches
2016-07-04 14:24 ` [PATCH -v3 2/2] printk: Add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsg Borislav Petkov
2016-07-05 21:47   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-05 22:02     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-05 22:08       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-06 13:29   ` [PATCH -v3.1 " Borislav Petkov
2016-07-06 17:52     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-06 18:32       ` Borislav Petkov

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