Re: device-mapper: use dynamic debug instead of compile-time config option

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On Wed, May 13 2020 at  1:01pm -0400,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/13/20 6:25 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> >On Wed, May 13 2020 at  7:10am -0400,
> >Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>On 5/13/20 11:41 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> >>>On 2020/05/13 16:10, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> >>>>Switch to use dynamic debug to avoid having recompile the kernel
> >>>>just to enable debugging messages.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>---
> >>>>  include/linux/device-mapper.h | 7 +------
> >>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>>diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> >>>>index e2d506dd805e..3d4365fd3001 100644
> >>>>--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> >>>>+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> >>>>@@ -556,13 +556,8 @@ void *dm_vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size);
> >>>>  #define DMINFO(fmt, ...) pr_info(DM_FMT(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >>>>  #define DMINFO_LIMIT(fmt, ...) pr_info_ratelimited(DM_FMT(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >>>>-#ifdef CONFIG_DM_DEBUG
> >>>
> >>>Can we remove this from Kconfig as a config option ?
> >>>
> >>No, we can't, it's being used by dm-snap and dm-integrity.
> >
> >Yeah, they provide additional debugging if its set.
> >
> >But shouldn't we preserve old-style DMDEBUG if CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is set
> >(compile time printing of debugging) but if not set, use dynamic
> >debugging?
> >
> >Think I'd prefer that as the incremental improvement... thoughts?
> >
> Works for me; I just don't want to recompile the kernel anytime I
> need to debug device-mapper stuff.
> 
> Will be resending.

Does the use of pr_debug() cause missing newlines (with your patch)?

Only thought to ask this because I'm chasing another DM issue at the
moment and happened to see __dm_suspend()'s use of pr_debug() includes
an explicit extra \n.

Mike

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