Bug 1130650 - Feature request: CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP
Summary: Feature request: CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-15 19:01 UTC by Andy Lutomirski
Modified: 2014-11-06 00:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-11-06 00:02:54 UTC

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Description Andy Lutomirski 2014-08-15 19:01:22 UTC 
Every now and then, I find myself wanting CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP to debug something.  The feature is not intrusive, and it should be completely safe to enable by default.  It does nothing unless someone reads the debugfs file.

Any chance of adding it to Fedora's kernels?

Note: I don't think that CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP should come along for the ride.  That adds lots of dmesg output.
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2014-08-18 13:14:55 UTC 
We enable this in our debug kernels already.  That should be sufficient for anyone doing debugging work.
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2014-11-06 00:02:54 UTC 
Closing this out since there's no further follow up after comment #1.
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