On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 20:01 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> During my work on NOMMU system (mm/nommu.c), I saw definition and
> usage of kenter/kleave/kdebug macros. These macros are compiled as
> empty because of "#if 0" construction.
> 45 #if 0
> 46 #define kenter(FMT, ...) \
> 47 printk(KERN_DEBUG "==> %s("FMT")\n", __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 48 #define kleave(FMT, ...) \
> 49 printk(KERN_DEBUG "<== %s()"FMT"\n", __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 50 #define kdebug(FMT, ...) \
> 51 printk(KERN_DEBUG "xxx" FMT"yyy\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 52 #else
> 53 #define kenter(FMT, ...) \
> 54 no_printk(KERN_DEBUG "==> %s("FMT")\n", __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 55 #define kleave(FMT, ...) \
> 56 no_printk(KERN_DEBUG "<== %s()"FMT"\n", __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 57 #define kdebug(FMT, ...) \
> 58 no_printk(KERN_DEBUG FMT"\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 59 #endif
[]
> My question is how we should handle such duplicated debug print code?
> As possible solutions, I see five options:
> 1. Leave it as is.
> 2. Move it to general include file (for example linux/printk.h) and
> commonize the output to be consistent between different kdebug users.
> 3. Add CONFIG_*_DEBUG definition for every kdebug user.
> 4. Move everything to "#if 0" construction.
> 5. Move everything to "#if defined(__KDEBUG)" construction.
6: delete the macros and uses
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