Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] RFC drm/i915: Export per-client debug tracing

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Sun Mar 01 2020 - 11:33:17 EST


Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2020-03-01 16:27:24)
> On 01/03/2020 17:52, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Rather than put sensitive, and often voluminous, user details into a
> > global dmesg, report the error and debug messages directly back to the
> > user via the kernel tracing mechanism.
>
>
> Sounds really nice. Don't you want the existing global tracing to be the
> default at least until a client does a get_trace?

We've currently in the middle of an awfully spammy regression :(

And I think the user's debug information does not belong in the global
dmesg.
-Chris