[PATCH v2] audit: report audit wait metric in audit status reply

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:13 PM Max Englander <max.englander at 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
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