The patch titled DYNAMIC_DEBUG: fix documentation errors has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: DYNAMIC_DEBUG: fix documentation errors From: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 2 +- lib/Kconfig.debug | 16 ++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/dynamic_debug.h~dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors include/linux/dynamic_debug.h --- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h~dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors +++ a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct _ddebug { /* * The flags field controls the behaviour at the callsite. * The bits here are changed dynamically when the user - * writes commands to <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + * writes commands to <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control */ #define _DPRINTK_FLAGS_PRINT (1<<0) /* printk() a message using the format */ #define _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT 0 diff -puN lib/Kconfig.debug~dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors lib/Kconfig.debug --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug~dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors +++ a/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1027,10 +1027,10 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG Usage: - Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file, + Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. - We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This + We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The format for each line of the file is: @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG From a live system: - nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control # filename:lineno [module]function flags format fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" @@ -1055,23 +1055,23 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control // enable all the messages in the NFS server module nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rafl@xxxxxxxxxx are dynamic_debug-fix-documentation-errors.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html