linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] RFC drm/i915: Export per-client debug tracing

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Date:   Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:33:06 +0000
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@...el.com>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] RFC drm/i915: Export per-client debug tracing

Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2020-03-01 16:27:24)
> On 01/03/2020 17:52, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Rather than put sensitive, and often voluminous, user details into a
> > global dmesg, report the error and debug messages directly back to the
> > user via the kernel tracing mechanism.
> 
> 
> Sounds really nice. Don't you want the existing global tracing to be the 
> default at least until a client does a get_trace?

We've currently in the middle of an awfully spammy regression :(

And I think the user's debug information does not belong in the global
dmesg.
-Chris