Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 11:15:55 -0600
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 6:06 AM Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 May 2021 08:36:49 -0600
> > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:38 AM Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >  
> > > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:57:17PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:  
> > > > > No, I don’t think there’s any reason to default it
> > > > > differently on stable  
> > > > vs  
> > > > > current. I think it’s useful (and I prefer the more verbose
> > > > > form, which isn’t the default).  
> > > >
> > > > I agree that there's no reason for the default to be different,
> > > > but I would say that it is much easier for someone who knows
> > > > that there is a default to be changed to change it, than it is
> > > > for someone who does not. Therefore, if the information is not
> > > > useful to someone who does not know how to get rid of it, then
> > > > it should default to not being displayed, IMHO.
> > > >  
> > >
> > > I plan on changing the default for non-INVARIANT kernels back to
> > > the old behavior.
> > >
> > > INVARIANT kernels will keep this behavior because it's a debugging
> > > kernel and this is one more thing to help debugging problems.
> > >  
> >
> > Did this ever happen? I just installed a fresh 13.1-RELEASE
> > production system (non-INVARIANT kernel) and it seems like SIGINFO
> > still outputs kernel stack information.
> >  
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35576 for those who wish to weigh in.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 

Hi Warner,

I just installed 13.2-RELEASE, seems like this was never MFCd (it is in
main, but not in stable/13 or releng/13.2). TBH, I could've checked
myself back then (it's so easy to forget to MFC).

Cheers
Michael

p.s. Learned about it by hitting ctrl-t to check if freebsd-update on my
slow test machine is actually alive :D

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Michael Gmelin