From ceabef7dd71720aef58bd182943352c9c307a3de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Orson Zhai Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 21:40:14 -0700 Subject: dynamic_debug: add an option to enable dynamic debug for modules only Instead of enabling dynamic debug globally with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE will only enable core function of dynamic debug. With the DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for any modules, dynamic debug will be tied to them. This is useful for people who only want to enable dynamic debug for kernel modules without worrying about kernel image size and memory consumption is increasing too much. [orson.zhai@unisoc.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587408228-10861-1-git-send-email-orson.unisoc@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Randy Dunlap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586521984-5890-1-git-send-email-orson.unisoc@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst index 0dc2eb8e44e5..1012bd9305e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ kernel code to obtain additional kernel information. Currently, if ``print_hex_dump_debug()``/``print_hex_dump_bytes()`` calls can be dynamically enabled per-callsite. +If you do not want to enable dynamic debug globally (i.e. in some embedded +system), you may set ``CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE`` as basic support of dynamic +debug and add ``ccflags := -DDYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE`` into the Makefile of any +modules which you'd like to dynamically debug later. + If ``CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG`` is not set, ``print_hex_dump_debug()`` is just shortcut for ``print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG)``. -- cgit v1.2.3