linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log

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

Message-ID: <4AFC7AAC.2040607@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:14:20 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [patch v2] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log



David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> I'm waiting for Mike to test them (and other patches) and send a new 
>> series out with bits to pick up.
>>
> 
> Mike posted his series today without including my patch, so I've replied 
> to it.

Sorry, I wasn't aware I should have.
> 
>> But i really dont like such type of buffering - in the past they tended 
>> to be problematic.
> 
> I'm not sure that I'd call it buffering when iterating through all apic 
> id's and setting appropriate bits in a bitmap when they map to a node id.  
> It's apparently not been problematic either on my machines, Mike's 
> machines, or his merge with ACPI 4.0 code.  I think the code is pretty 
> straight forward.
> 
>> Why print this info at all in the default bootup?  
>> It's not needed on a correctly functioning system.
>>
> 
> We have no other export of the apic id to to node mappings in the kernel.  
> We already show each pxm's address range, each node's address range, and 
> the pxm to node map.  The only other way to map apic ids to nodes is by 
> looking for the lines "CPU 0/0 -> Node 0," which I believe are being 
> removed.

The bootup messages in my patch 1/7 list nodes and their processors as each
boots.  And this is easily found under /sysfs.

Also, I think in general that all the apic messages, unless they represent
"system boot progress" should be displayed only when asked for, like with
apic=debug or verbose?   Something more like:

BIOS-provided physical RAM map processed.
EFI: memory allocated.
SRAT: table interpreted.
Bootmem setups complete.
ACPI: APIC's enabled.
PM: Registered all nosave memory.

Removing the above tables remove about 3400 lines of console output on a 1k
thread machine.  There are 20,000+ lines of output before you get to the
login prompt (even with the removal of cpu bootup messages).

But you are right, the apic info should be available via /sysfs or /procfs.

The next BIG output is from devices.  Listing all the pci busses available
is an overkill as that info is also readily available when the system is
running.
--
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/