[elrepo-devel] Request to enable RPC debugging in ELRepo kernels

[Jamie Bainbridge]

Many thanks, this will be a big help!

Cheers,
Jamie

On 6 May 2015 at 03:10, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On 5 May 2015 at 17:59, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>> On 5 May 2015 at 00:10, Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Jamie Bainbridge
>>>> <jamie.bainbridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> # grep CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG config-4.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>>>>> CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG is not set
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be really useful to have this enabled for troubleshooting.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's no overhead in regular sunrpc operation, all debugging output
>>>>> is disabled by default. Debugging is only enabled by echoing bitmasks
>>>>> into /proc or by using the "rpcdebug" binary, and is disabled in the
>>>>> same way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would a bug and patch be looked upon favorably?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jamie
>>>>
>>>> As far as there is no overhead, I see no reason against it. Alan?
>>>>
>>>> Akemi
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>>
>>> Consider the request "smiled upon" and that configuration change is
>>> now queued for the next build.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>
>> Just an additional note. This option is already enabled in the EL7
>> kernels (both distro and kernel-ml). Apparently it (=y) is the
>> "default" choice in Kconfig.
>>
>> Akemi
>
> Nodding in agreement. I have checked the "master" configuration files
> that I keep for our kernel-{lt|ml} packages, for each OS version.
> (RHEL-{5|6|7}).
>
> It will be applied to the configurations of kernel-lt and kernel-ml
> for RHEL-6 (and clones).
>
> Alan.
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