linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] [patch] hook tracer to dynamic debug

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:27:45 -0500
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] [patch] hook tracer to dynamic debug

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:48:40PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:39:28PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > Currently, the dynamic debug framework uses 'printk' for output. Here,
> > i've hooked the backend of the dynamic debug framework to the tracing 
> > framework. This allows the dynamic debug output to be seaprated from the
> > system log, and allows for higher performance.
> 
> Is this really an issue most of the time?
> 
> I know logs can get full, but this seems like a bit of an overkill :)
> 
> > I've implemented it as a compile time option, but a user might want to
> > be able to toggle b/w 'printk' and the tracer at run-time...other
> > ideas? Patch is against the -tip tree...
> 
> It would have to be a run-time option if you want any distro to ever be
> able to enable this in their kernels.
> 

There haven't been any specfic complaints about this, although the all
'on' case does really spew quite a lot into the logs. Using Frederic's
suggestion I'm able to implement this with only a few lines of code...so
I'll keep it around if we ever need it...

thanks,

-Jason
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/