Re: [PATCH v9 00/53] fix CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 03:56:50PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> This fixes dynamic-debug support for DRM.debug, added via classmaps.
> commit bb2ff6c27bc9 (drm: Disable dynamic debug as broken)
> 
> CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y was marked broken because drm.debug=val
> was applied when drm.ko was modprobed; too early for the yet-to-load
> drivers, which thus missed the enablement.  My testing with
> /etc/modprobe.d/ entries and modprobes with dyndbg=$querycmd options
> obscured this omission.
> 
> The fix is to replace invocations of DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP with
> DYNDBG_CLASSMAP_DEFINE for core, and DYNDBG_CLASSMAP_USE for drivers.
> The distinction allows dyndbg to also handle the users properly.
> 
> DRM is the only current classmaps user, and is not really using it,
> so if you think DRM could benefit from zero-off-cost debugs based on
> static-keys, please test.
> 
> HISTORY
> 
> 9/4/22  - ee879be38bc8..ace7c4bbb240 commited - classmaps-v1 dyndbg parts
> 9/11/22 - 0406faf25fb1..16deeb8e18ca commited - classmaps-v1 drm parts
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y3XUrOGAV4I7bB3M@kroah.com/
> greg k-h says:
> This should go through the drm tree now.  The rest probably should also
> go that way and not through my tree as well.

Can't this just be defined as a coccinelle smpl patch? Must easier
to read than 53 patches?

  Luis