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Message-Id: <1467194161-1472-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:55:59 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Franck Bui <fbui@...e.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -v2 0/2] printk.kmsg: Ratelimit it by default

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

Hi all,

here's v2 with the requested sysctl option kernel.printk_kmsg and
locking of the setting when printk.kmsg= is supplied on the command
line.

Patch 1 is unchanged.

Patch 2 has grown the sysctl addition.

Changelog:

v1:

Rostedt is busy so I took Linus' old patch and Steven's last v2 and
split and extended them with the comments people had on the last thread:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160425145606.598329f2@gandalf.local.home

I hope, at least.

So it is ratelimiting by default, with "on" and "off" cmdline options. I
called the option somewhat a bit shorter too: "printk.kmsg"

The current use cases of this and of which I'm aware are:

* debug the kernel and thus shut up all interfering input from
userspace, i.e. boot with "printk.kmsg=off"

* debug userspace (and by that I mean systemd) by booting with
"printk.kmsg=on" so that the ratelimiting is disabled and the kernel log
gets all the spew.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Borislav Petkov (2):
  ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release
  printk: Add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsg

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |  6 +++
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt     | 14 +++++++
 include/linux/printk.h              |  6 +++
 include/linux/ratelimit.h           | 36 ++++++++++++++---
 kernel/printk/printk.c              | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 kernel/sysctl.c                     |  9 +++++
 lib/ratelimit.c                     |  6 ++-
 7 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

-- 
2.7.3

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