[PATCH 00/50] Add log level to show_stack()
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Wed Nov 6 20:20:39 AEDT 2019
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:04:51AM +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> Add log level argument to show_stack().
> Done in three stages:
> 1. Introducing show_stack_loglvl() for every architecture
> 2. Migrating old users with an explicit log level
> 3. Renaming show_stack_loglvl() into show_stack()
>
> Justification:
> o It's a design mistake to move a business-logic decision
> into platform realization detail.
> o I have currently two patches sets that would benefit from this work:
> Removing console_loglevel jumps in sysrq driver [1]
> Hung task warning before panic [2] - suggested by Tetsuo (but he
> probably didn't realise what it would involve).
> o While doing (1), (2) the backtraces were adjusted to headers
> and other messages for each situation - so there won't be a situation
> when the backtrace is printed, but the headers are missing because
> they have lesser log level (or the reverse).
> o As the result in (2) plays with console_loglevel for kdb are removed.
I really don't understand that word salad. Why are you doing this?
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