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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: ABI: add /sys/kernel/error_report/ documentation
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:52:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210118095230.1d2e670b@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=UnMhW4y6y5Tef9xnbB2S8gKozY7SXyk9STFh53rPfW-Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:22:27 +0100
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:

> > If you do use tracefs, add it to the top level tracing directory (no need
> > to have instances of it), and rename it to "kernel_warnings", as
> > "error_report" is too close to the existing "error_log" which holds error
> > messages of syntactic errors done by users entering in commands to some of
> > the special files.  
> 
> Will do. Is it conventional to add a new dentry* to struct trace_array for that?
> If not, maybe it's better to create this dir in
> error_report_notify_setup(), like this is done e.g. for
> /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat - just to loosen the coupling?

Yeah, keep the dentry static in your own code. No need to add it to the
trace_array. The dentry's in the trace array are for instances (as there
are more than one of instance of them).

> 
> > That is, /sys/kernel/tracing/kernel_warnings/ would be your error_report/
> > directory you have now.  
> 
> WDYT about "kernel_errors" or "kernel_error_reports"?
> "warnings" suggest we'll be notifying about any occurrence of WARN(),
> which is not what we are planning to do.
> Also, shall I rename the library/config/etc. accordingly (to e.g.
> CONFIG_KERNEL_WARN_NOTIFY)?

I'm fine with "kernel_errors" as that helps to differentiate what they are.
Also, you may want to add a field about this in the documentation under
Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst (just a reference) and add a separate file
called, kernel_errors.rst.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-18 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15 13:03 [PATCH v2 0/5] Add sysfs interface to collect reports from debugging tools Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] tracing: add error_report trace points Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] lib: add error_report_notify to collect debugging tools' reports Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:50   ` Greg KH
2021-01-15 17:17     ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-18 11:38   ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-18 13:08     ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-18 13:14       ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-18 16:43       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-21 13:13         ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: ABI: add /sys/kernel/error_report/ documentation Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:45   ` Greg KH
2021-01-15 15:26     ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 15:45       ` Greg KH
2021-01-15 16:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-01-18 10:22         ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-18 14:52           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-01-15 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] kfence: use error_report_start and error_report_end tracepoints Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] kasan: " Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-15 13:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Add sysfs interface to collect reports from debugging tools Vlastimil Babka
2021-01-15 13:09   ` Alexander Potapenko
2021-01-21 12:56     ` Alexander Potapenko

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