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DYNAMIC_DEBUG: fix documentation errors
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[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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rafl authored and torvalds committed May 25, 2010
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
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Expand Up @@ -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
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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions lib/Kconfig.debug
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Expand Up @@ -1039,10 +1039,10 @@ 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:

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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"
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// 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.

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