Re: [PATCH security-next v3 04/29] LSM: Remove initcall tracing

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:35:21 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:18:07 -0700
> > Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> >> This partially reverts commit 58eacfffc417 ("init, tracing: instrument
> >> security and console initcall trace events") since security init calls
> >> are about to no longer resemble regular init calls.  
> >
> > I'm not against the change, but how much are they going to "no longer
> > resemble regular init calls"?  
> 
> My take on "regular" init calls is that they're always run, link-time
> ordered, etc. The changes proposed here will make it so not all
> initialization are run depending on runtime configurations, ordering
> will be flexible, etc.
>

Will it still be a good idea to have a tracepoint for those calls?
Perhaps not an  initcall tracepoint but some other kind?

-- Steve