Hi Ingo, Thomas,

Could you take these to x86/tip tree?
(in case they are good enough)

On 6/29/20 3:48 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> Changes since v1 [3]:
> - Use (enum show_regs_mode) instead of (int) [nit by Jann, thanks!]
> - Add acks from Petr
> 
> show_trace_log_lvl() provides x86 platform-specific way to unwind
> backtrace with a given log level. Unfortunately, registers dump(s) are
> not printed with the same log level - instead, KERN_DEFAULT is always
> used.
> 
> Arista's switches uses quite common setup with rsyslog, where only
> urgent messages goes to console (console_log_level=KERN_ERR), everything
> else goes into /var/log/ as the console baud-rate often is indecently
> slow (9600 bps).
> 
> Backtrace dumps without registers printed have proven to be as useful as
> morning standups. Furthermore, in order to introduce KERN_UNSUPPRESSED
> (which I believe is still the most elegant way to fix raciness of sysrq[1])
> the log level should be passed down the stack to register dumping
> functions. Besides, I have a potential use-case for printing traces
> with KERN_DEBUG level [2] (where registers dump shouldn't appear with
> higher log level than the backtrace).
> 
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> Dmitry Safonov (3):
>   x86/dumpstack: Add log_lvl to show_iret_regs()
>   x86/dumpstack: Add log_lvl to __show_regs()
>   x86/dumpstack: Show registers dump with trace's log level
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h |  5 ++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c   | 23 +++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c  | 29 ++++++++++----------
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c  | 51 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
          Dmitry

Reply via email to