Re: [PROBLEM] hard-lock with kmemtrace, relayfs, and splice

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Tom,

Tom Zanussi wrote:
> To me, that sounds like how it should work - if kmemtrace is disabled,
> it shouldn't be logging anything, and that's in fact what I saw when
> debugging this - it started out disabled and therefore nothing being
> logged to relay (printks confirmed that).  When I wrote 1 to the enabled
> file, data started getting logged to relay and to the *.out files.
> 
> So I don't know why the enabled state behaves the way it does, or if
> it's unexpected, but that anyway doesn't seem like a relay problem to
> me.

Oh, right. Looking at kmemtraced.c, we never enable kmemtrace, just 
disable it (which doesn't make much sense). Bug in README or the code. 
Eduard?

Btw, Tom, you can add my

Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

to your patch if you want. Are you going to send it to Andrew or do you 
want me to pick it up with rest of the kmemtrace patches?

		Pekka