kernel.git/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst, branch linux-5.8.y

dynamic_debug: add an option to enable dynamic debug for modules only

2020-06-08T18:05:56Z

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

dynamic_debug: allow to work if debugfs is disabled

2020-02-12T22:15:53Z

With the realization that having debugfs enabled on "production" systems is generally not a good idea, debugfs is being disabled from more and more platforms over time. However, the functionality of dynamic debugging still is needed at times, and since it relies on debugfs for its user api, having debugfs disabled also forces dynamic debug to be disabled. To get around this, also create the "control" file for dynamic_debug in procfs. This allows people turn on debugging as needed at runtime for individual driverfs and subsystems. Reported-by: many different companies Cc: Jason Baron Acked-by: Will Deacon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210211142.GB1373304@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: dynamic-debug: fix wildcard description

2018-11-07T22:25:59Z

Fix grammar about wildcards and insert a space between sentences. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Korteland Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: dynamic_debug: fix a couple of typos

2018-11-07T22:25:22Z

Fix a few "typos" in dynamic-debug-howto.rst. s/dyndbg_query/ddebug_query/ s/sysfs/debugfs/ Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

dynamic_debug documentation: minor fixes

2017-11-18T00:10:01Z

Fix minor typo. Fix missing words in explaining parsing of last line number. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebb7ff42-4945-103f-d5b4-f07a6f3343a7@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dynamic-debug-howto: Correct echo -c to -n

2017-01-26T22:11:02Z

Two of the example command lines use an argument to echo of "-c" which isn't valid in (most versions of) echo causing these examples to fail. Correct the argument to "-n" which works correctly. Signed-off-by: Steven Price Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs-rst: create an user's manual book

2016-10-24T10:12:35Z

Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters on an user's manual book. As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual numbering from SecurityBugs. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab