[PATCH 00/50] Add log level to show_stack()

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Nov 14 02:41:21 AEDT 2019


On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 21:34:40 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:

> I suppose I'm surprised there are backtraces that are not important.
> Either badness happened and it needs printing, or the user asked for it
> and it needs printing.

Unfortunately that is the case. As my tests will fail if a backtrace is
detected.

> 
> Perhaps we should be removing backtraces if they're not important
> instead of allowing to print them as lower loglevels?

I usually end up removing backtraces for my tests, so I'm for this.
Specifically this happens in the drm and i915 drivers :-p

-- Steve



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