[PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:29:49PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 02:48 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:58:40AM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> >>On 03/13/2012 08:21 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:39:38PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> >>>>Currently the debugging code is under #ifdef DEBUG, which
> >>>>means when we want to debug, we have to re-compile the source
> >>>>code with -DDEBUG. This is not convenient, we want to have
> >>>>a generic --debug option so that we can enable debugging code
> >>>>without re-compiling.
> >>>>
> >>>>This patch moves the arch-specific --debug to generic place
> >>>>and moves code under #ifdef DEBUG to --debug on x86.
> >>>>
> >>>>BTW, the size of kexec binary increases very little after this patch.
> >>>
> >>>Hi Cong,
> >>>
> >>>In general I am happy with making kexec easier to use.  However, it would
> >>>be nice not to make kexec-tools even bigger than it already is. Its size
> >>>already seems to be an issue for some people on ARM at least.  Do you
> >>>have some feeling for the change in binary size on architectures other than
> >>>i386?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I only tested the patches on x86 and ppc.
> >>
> >>Sorry I don't have a chance to test it on ARM, on ARM it just adds a
> >>small function dump_memory_ranges(), if this would be a problem,
> >>feel free to drop patch 3/5. :)
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >As per my post to the ppc patch, it did not seem to compile for me.
> 
> I did compiling and run tests on ppc64 if you mean ppc32 by "ppc".
> 
> >I will push the remaining patches. For reference before and after
> >sizes for the non-ppc architectures are as follows.
> >
> 
> Ok, I will re-send the ppc patch soon. Thank you!

Sorry, I missed this. But yes, I think it was 32bit ppc where
I saw the problem.



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