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Commit a2a316fd authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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[NET]: Replace CONFIG_NET_DEBUG with sysctl. 



Covert network warning messages from a compile time to runtime choice.
Removes kernel config option and replaces it with new /proc/sys/net/core/warnings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ae40eb1e

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

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@@ -1421,6 +1421,15 @@ fewer messages that will be written. Message_burst controls when messages will 
be dropped.  The  default  settings  limit  warning messages to one every five

seconds.



warnings

--------



This controls console messages from the networking stack that can occur because

of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally,

this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be

disabled.





netdev_max_backlog

------------------

include/linux/sysctl.h

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@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ enum 
	NET_CORE_BUDGET=19,

	NET_CORE_AEVENT_ETIME=20,

	NET_CORE_AEVENT_RSEQTH=21,

	NET_CORE_WARNINGS=22,

};



/* /proc/sys/net/ethernet */

include/net/sock.h

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@@ -1334,14 +1334,12 @@ extern int sock_get_timestampns(struct sock *, struct timespec __user *); 
/* 

 *	Enable debug/info messages 

 */

extern int net_msg_warn;

#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) \

	do { if (net_msg_warn) printk(fmt,##args); } while (0)



#ifdef CONFIG_NETDEBUG

#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...)	printk(fmt,##args)

#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { if (net_ratelimit()) printk(fmt,##args); } while(0)

#else

#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...)	do { } while (0)

#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { } while(0)

#endif

#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) \

	do { if (net_msg_warn && net_ratelimit()) printk(fmt,##args); } while(0)



/*

 * Macros for sleeping on a socket. Use them like this:

net/Kconfig

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@@ -27,13 +27,6 @@ if NET 


menu "Networking options"



config NETDEBUG

	bool "Network packet debugging"

	help

	  You can say Y here if you want to get additional messages useful in

	  debugging bad packets, but can overwhelm logs under denial of service

	  attacks.



source "net/packet/Kconfig"

source "net/unix/Kconfig"

source "net/xfrm/Kconfig"

net/core/sysctl_net_core.c

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@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ ctl_table core_table[] = { 
		.mode		= 0644,

		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec

	},

	{

		.ctl_name	= NET_CORE_WARNINGS,

		.procname	= "warnings",

		.data		= &net_msg_warn,

		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),

		.mode		= 0644,

		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec

	},

	{ .ctl_name = 0 }

};