On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:25:32AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > 2) Accumulate the output of kernel printf (as well as the times > when it's called) and add this periodically. To avoid issues > with recursion through diagnostic printfs, we use SHA512 to > accumulate the printf output, then mix in its output.
I wonder if we should make this part a compile time option (typically defaulting to on for most architectures - but I haven't tried on really the difference it makes for really slow machines). I do understand that kernel output is rare post boot, so it might not be a big deal. Martin