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This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.
It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.
However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.
And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.
I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of
random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0
and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).
The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.
See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.
And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.
Fixes:
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| .. | ||
| agp | ||
| hw_random | ||
| ipmi | ||
| tpm | ||
| xilinx_hwicap | ||
| xillybus | ||
| adi.c | ||
| apm-emulation.c | ||
| applicom.c | ||
| applicom.h | ||
| bsr.c | ||
| ds1620.c | ||
| dsp56k.c | ||
| dtlk.c | ||
| hangcheck-timer.c | ||
| hpet.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| lp.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mem.c | ||
| misc.c | ||
| misc_minor_kunit.c | ||
| nsc_gpio.c | ||
| nvram.c | ||
| nwbutton.c | ||
| nwbutton.h | ||
| nwflash.c | ||
| pc8736x_gpio.c | ||
| powernv-op-panel.c | ||
| ppdev.c | ||
| ps3flash.c | ||
| random.c | ||
| scx200_gpio.c | ||
| sonypi.c | ||
| tlclk.c | ||
| toshiba.c | ||
| ttyprintk.c | ||
| uv_mmtimer.c | ||
| virtio_console.c | ||