linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] do not call trace

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Message-ID: <20180424152607.71fbee34@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:26:07 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Wei Wang <wei.vince.wang@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Crt Mori <cmo@...exis.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not call trace_printk on non-debug build

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:20:03 +0000
Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com> wrote:

> checkpatch.pl sounds good. One thing to add is we have many off tree
> patches with abuse trace_printk. Also as you mentioned, given this is
> really not for use in production and we have been cleaning this our on our
> side for years, could we consider to enforce this in kernel?

That nasty warning was suppose to be the enforcement. I would expect
nobody would ship a kernel where it produced such a message on boot (or
loading of a module). If they don't notice, then they are not testing
their code.

A lot of kernel developers use trace_printk() and I want to make it as
easy to use as possible. I don't want to add a config to enable it,
because that would be something that could be rather annoying.

Let's add it to checkpatch and see if that can draining the swamp of
abusers.

-- Steve