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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	dianders@chromium.org, groeck@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/trace: Add TRACING_ALLOW_PRINTK config option
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:04:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200624120408.12c8fa0d@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200624084524.259560-1-drinkcat@chromium.org>

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:45:24 +0800
Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> wrote:

> trace_printk is only meant as a debugging tool, and should never be
> compiled into production code without source code changes, as
> indicated by the warning that shows up on boot if any trace_printk
> is called:
>  **   NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE   **
>  **                                                      **
>  ** trace_printk() being used. Allocating extra memory.  **
>  **                                                      **
>  ** This means that this is a DEBUG kernel and it is     **
>  ** unsafe for production use.                           **
> 
> If this option is set to n, the kernel will generate a build-time
> error if trace_printk is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>

Interesting. Note, this will prevent modules with trace_printk from
being loaded as well.

-- Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-24 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-24  8:45 [PATCH] kernel/trace: Add TRACING_ALLOW_PRINTK config option Nicolas Boichat
2020-06-24 13:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-06-25  1:13   ` Nicolas Boichat
2020-06-24 16:04 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-06-24 17:25   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-25  2:00     ` Nicolas Boichat
2020-06-25  3:59       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 22:14         ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-28 17:27           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-28 18:46             ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-28 19:00               ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-28 19:21               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-28 19:43                 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-28 22:02                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-28 22:28                     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-28 23:43                       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-30  5:16                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 12:39                           ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-25  1:32   ` Nicolas Boichat
2020-06-24 17:37 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-24 19:07 ` kernel test robot

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