linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: make mtrr code could use debugpat

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Date:	Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:39:46 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make mtrr code could use debugpat

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 12:22 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 03:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > only print out get_mtrr when debugpat
> > > 
> > > Is that get_mtrr message really so interesting that it needs to be 
> > > printed out at all? Even with debugpat?
> > 
> > With debugpat it's probably interesting - i think only a very small 
> > fraction of users will enable it, and if they do we really want to 
> > track all MTRR state.
> > 
> > Since old MTRR state gets destroyed by new settings we better have a 
> > clear idea how the BIOS set it, that might give us clues about 
> > quirks, etc.
> > 
> > Based on MTRR bugreport patterns i was the one who asked Yinghai 
> > during the development cycle to add more debugging there - so i'm to 
> > blame for those printouts. We had several cases where it would have 
> > been useful had we known the precise history of MTRR settings.
> > 
> > I was under the impression that KERN_DEBUG would only show up on the 
> > console if 'debug' is passed in on the boot command line - but your 
> > bootlog didnt have 'debug' in it and i guess having it so frequently 
> > in the dmesg is confusing as well. It might even be there for every 
> > Xorg startup.
> > 
> 
> If you still want to debug it, use some special parameters at command
> line to avoid annoyance to others.
> 
> These debug messages really screwed up my life from last month.
> 

If you surprise how these debug messages screwed up my life, so here is
some clues:

1. I pointed to remove or suppress these messages and Ingo, Andrew and
then later on Thomas become upset with me.

2. And because of their upset, I need to delete more than 100 of my
patches and delete many development trees in last few weeks.

--
JSR

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