On Thu, 24 May 2007 11:55:03 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:58:35 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well OK. But vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch is designated
> > > > not-for-mainline anyway.
> > >
> > > btw., why?
> >
> > err, because that's what I decided a year ago. I wonder why ;)
> >
> > Perhaps because of the DoS thing, but it has a /proc knob and defaults
> > to off, so it should be OK.
>
> yeah. There's also a boot option. To address the DoS angle, should i
> make it optionally printk_ratelimit() perhaps? (although often the
> messages come in streams and skipping a message can be annoying)
I don't think so, really. It takes a deliberate act to turn the thing
on, after all.
I we _were_ concerned about the logspam then it might be better to make the
feature turn itself off after 100 messages, rather than ratelimiting it.
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