Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:48:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote: > > can there be two bulletproof buffers: one for in kernel printk > and another ratelimited one for writes into /dev/kmsg. > On the read from /dev/kmsg they're combined by time.
Or, you know, people could just stop spamming /dev/kmsg.
Let's not overdesign this. No sane use will be impacted by rate limiting, and insane uses aren't something we should design for. Even the systemd spam was a *bug*, for chrissake.
Linus
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