From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
jbaron@akamai.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/24] dyndbg: WIP towards debug-print-class based callsite controls
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:52:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617095255.GU31238@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200617093154.v7mf5355faa4c7ob@holly.lan>
On Wed 2020-06-17 10:31:54, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 02:05:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 15:45 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > On Sat 2020-06-13 09:57:34, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > > > There are *lots* of ad-hoc debug printing solutions in kernel,
> > > > this is a 1st attempt at providing a common mechanism for many of them.
> > >
> > > I agree that it might make sense to provide some common mechanism.
> > []
> > > My problem with this approach is that it is too generic. Each class
> > > would have different meaning in each subsystem.
> > >
> > > It might help to replace any existing variants. But it would be hard
> > > for developers debugging the code. They would need to study/remember
> > > the meaning of these groups for particular subsystems. They would
> > > need to set different values for different messages.
> > >
> > > Could you please provide more details about the potential users?
> > > Would be possible to find some common patterns and common
> > > meaning of the groups?
> >
> > I doubt the utility of common patterns.
> > Verbosity is common but groupings are not.
> >
> > Look at the DRM patterns vs other groups.
>
> I've seen drm.debug mentioned a couple of times but the comments about
> it seem to only learn part of what is shows us.
>
> drm.debug is a form of common grouping but it acts at a sub-system level
> rather then whole system (and gives a whole sub-system enable/disable).
> This is where grouping makes most sense.
>
> The result is that drm.debug is easy to document, both in official
> kernel docs and in other resources (like the arch distro documentation).
> Having controls that are easy to document makes them easy to find and
> thus sub-system grouping leads directly to higher quality bug reports.
Thanks a lot for explanation.
Now, could anyone please tell me how this new dynamic debug feature
would allow to replace drm.debug option?
I mean what steps/commands will be needed instead of, for example
drm.debug=0x3 command line option?
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-17 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-13 15:57 [PATCH v2 00/24] dynamic_debug cleanups, query features, WIP print-classes Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] dyndbg-docs: eschew file /full/path query in docs Jim Cromie
2020-06-14 6:04 ` Greg KH
2020-06-14 14:24 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] dyndbg-docs: initialization is done early, not arch Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] dyndbg: drop obsolete comment on ddebug_proc_open Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] dyndbg: refine debug verbosity; 1 is basic, 2 more chatty Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] dyndbg: rename __verbose section to __dyndbg Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] dyndbg: fix overcounting of ram used by dyndbg Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] dyndbg: fix a BUG_ON in ddebug_describe_flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 13:20 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-15 21:53 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] dyndbg: make ddebug_tables list LIFO for add/remove_module Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] dyndbg: add maybe(str,"") macro to reduce code Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 16:14 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-15 20:50 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-15 13:28 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-15 20:52 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] dyndbg: refactor parse_linerange out of ddebug_parse_query Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 13:37 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-15 22:37 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] dyndbg: accept 'file foo.c:func1' and 'file foo.c:10-100' Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 14:46 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] dyndbg: refactor ddebug_read_flags out of ddebug_parse_flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] dyndbg: combine flags & mask into a struct, use that Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 15:14 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-16 5:47 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-16 11:34 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] dyndbg: add filter parameter to ddebug_parse_flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 15:17 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] dyndbg: extend ddebug_parse_flags to accept optional leading filter-flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-15 15:37 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] dyndbg: prefer declarative init in caller, to memset in callee Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] dyndbg: add user-flag, negating-flags, and filtering on flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-16 11:41 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] dyndbg: allow negating flag-chars in modflags Jim Cromie
2020-06-16 11:47 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] dyndbg: accept query terms like module:foo and file=bar Jim Cromie
2020-06-16 11:57 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-16 20:08 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-17 12:11 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-17 13:32 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-17 14:01 ` Greg KH
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] dyndbg: WIP towards debug-print-class based callsite controls Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 19:22 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-16 13:45 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-16 21:05 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-17 9:31 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-06-17 9:52 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2020-06-17 13:23 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-18 12:20 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-16 21:13 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-16 21:25 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] dyndbg: adapt header macros to pass print-class Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 17:11 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-13 20:25 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] dyndbg: add print-class as trailing number to control output Jim Cromie
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] kset-example: add pr_debug()s for easy visibility of its operation Jim Cromie
2020-06-14 6:05 ` Greg KH
2020-06-15 22:18 ` jim.cromie
2020-06-16 6:37 ` Greg KH
2020-06-13 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] kset-example: use pr_debug_n to create example print-classes Jim Cromie
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