Re: [PATCH 1/2] limit print_fatal_signal() rate (was: [RFC] logout-of-virtual-memory events)

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:58:35 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

> It's very, very useful to distro, early-boot-userspace and 
> glibc development. The only add-on change should be to not print SIGKILL 
> events. Otherwise it's very much a keeper. Hm?
> 

<promotes it>
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