Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:10:15 -0600 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM |
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On Mon 23-04-18 10:24:02, Mikulas Patocka wrote: [...]
I am not going to comment on your continuous accusations. We can discuss patches but general rants make very limited sense.
> > > > I already said that we can change it from CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to > > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_SG - or to whatever other option you may want, just to make > > > > sure that it is enabled in distro debug kernels by default. > > > > > > Yes, and I think that's the right idea. So send a v2 and ignore the > > > replies that are clearly relating to an earlier version of the patch. > > > Not everybody reads every mail in the thread before responding to one they > > > find interesting. Yes, ideally, one would, but sometimes one doesn't. > > > > And look here. This is yet another ad-hoc idea. We have many users of > > kvmalloc which have no relation to SG, yet you are going to control > > their behavior by CONFIG_DEBUG_SG? No way! (yeah evil again) > > Why aren't you constructive and pick up pick up the CONFIG flag?
Because config doesn't make that much of a sense. You do not want a permanent vmalloc fallback unconditionally. Debugging option which changes the behavior completely is not useful IMNHO. Besides that who is going to enable it?
> > Really, we have a fault injection framework and this sounds like > > something to hook in there. > > The testing people won't set it up. They install the "kernel-debug" > package and run the tests in it. > > If you introduce a hidden option that no one knows about, no one will use > it.
then make sure people know about it. Fuzzers already do test fault injections. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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