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Message-ID: <202003050933.14BDEDBF1@keescook>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 09:34:47 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: Stop printing the virtual memory layout

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:46:58AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:41:05PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 3/5/20 4:38 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > >> Aww, why wasn't this made configurable? I found these memory map printouts
> > >> very useful for development.
> > > 
> > > It could be changed from pr_info to pr_devel.
> > > 
> > > A #define DEBUG would have to be added to emit it.
> > 
> > Well, from the discussion it seems the decision to cut it out has already been
> > made, so I guess it's too late :(.
> > 
> > Adrian
> > 
> > -- 
> >  .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > : :' :  Debian Developer - glaubitz@...ian.org
> > `. `'   Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de
> >   `-    GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546  0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
> 
> Not really too late. I can do s/pr_info/pr_devel and resubmit.
> 
> parisc for eg actually hides this in #if 0 rather than deleting the
> code.
> 
> Kees, you fine with that?

I don't mind pr_devel(). ("#if 0" tends to lead to code-rot since it's
not subjected to syntax checking in case the names of things change.)
That said, it's really up to the arch maintainers.

-- 
Kees Cook

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