Re: [PATCH v2] audit: report audit wait metric in audit status reply
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:13 PM Max Englander <max.englander(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It sounds like there's a decision to be made around whether or
not to use
the bitmap feature flags which I probably am probably not in a position to
help decide. However, I'm more than happy to fix my userspace PR so
that it does not rely on the feature flag space using the approach Paul
outlined, in spite of the drawbacks, if that ends up being the decision.
As mentioned several times in the past, I'm not merging a patch which
allocates a bitmap entry for this feature.
Separately, since there is tension between these two approaches
(structure size and bitmap), I wonder if Paul/Steve you would be open
to a third way.
For example, I can imagine adding additional bitmap
spaces (FEATURE_BITMAP_2, FEATURE_BITMAP_3, etc.).
Alternately, I can imagine each feature being assigned a unique u64
ID, and user space programs querying the kernel to see whether a
a particular feature is enabled.
This isn't attractive to me at this point in time. NACK.
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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com