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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
	jbaron@akamai.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linuxfoundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/24] dyndbg: WIP towards debug-print-class based callsite controls
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:22:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa8b72be8316e6ed50371e24be1a7ad9c6be5127.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200613155738.2249399-21-jim.cromie@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 09:57 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> 3- pr_class:5 gives 32 print-classes
>    we can map [1-9a-w] to select any pr_class with 1 char
>    then "12", "af" work as noted.
>    it is succinct, but arcane.

arcane generally isn't useful.

>    but it does allow mnemonic choices of pr_class
>    - l,m,h	low, mid, hi
>    - l,r	left right

I believe there to be no value in mnemonic input
to debug_<class>

I think 0x<hex_mask>, 0b<binary_bits>, 0<octal_bits>
and <decimal> level is more than enough.

And likely just 0x<hex> and <decimal> is enough.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-13 19:22 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 [this message]
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
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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