Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 10/8/2015 7:57 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > +		pr_info("x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.\n");
> Do we really want to issue anything here in the success case? IMO, we
> should be quiet if the check passes and only scream when something's
> wrong...

I would like the success message to be there.
From an automated testing perspective (for the distro I work on for example),

"the test runs and it fails",
"the test runs and it passes" and
"the test has not run (because of a bug in the code or config file)"

are different outcomes, where the first and third are test failures,
but without the pr_info at info level, the 2nd and 3rd are indistinguishable.

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