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Message-ID: <CAG_fn=UnMhW4y6y5Tef9xnbB2S8gKozY7SXyk9STFh53rPfW-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:22:27 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: ABI: add /sys/kernel/error_report/ documentation

> If you do use tracefs, add it to the top level tracing directory (no need
> to have instances of it), and rename it to "kernel_warnings", as
> "error_report" is too close to the existing "error_log" which holds error
> messages of syntactic errors done by users entering in commands to some of
> the special files.

Will do. Is it conventional to add a new dentry* to struct trace_array for that?
If not, maybe it's better to create this dir in
error_report_notify_setup(), like this is done e.g. for
/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat - just to loosen the coupling?

> That is, /sys/kernel/tracing/kernel_warnings/ would be your error_report/
> directory you have now.

WDYT about "kernel_errors" or "kernel_error_reports"?
"warnings" suggest we'll be notifying about any occurrence of WARN(),
which is not what we are planning to do.
Also, shall I rename the library/config/etc. accordingly (to e.g.
CONFIG_KERNEL_WARN_NOTIFY)?

> Use the function in kernel/trace/trace.c: tracer_init_tracefs() to add that
> directory. That's for files in the tracefs directory that will not be
> duplicated by instances.
>
> -- Steve



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