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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
| commit | 0d4a42f6bd298e826620585e766a154ab460617a (patch) | |
| tree | 406d8f7778691d858dbe3e48e4bbb10e99c0a58a /Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt | |
| parent | d62b4892f3d9f7dd2002e5309be10719d6805b0f (diff) | |
| parent | a937536b868b8369b98967929045f1df54234323 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.9-rc3' into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge so that I can merge Imre Deak's coalesced sg entries fixes,
which depend upon the new for_each_sg_page introduce in
commit a321e91b6d73ed011ffceed384c40d2785cf723b
Author: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Date: Wed Feb 27 17:02:56 2013 -0800
lib/scatterlist: add simple page iterator
The merge itself is just two trivial conflicts:
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt index 6e1684981da2..72322c6d7352 100644 --- a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt +++ b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt @@ -6,8 +6,16 @@ This document describes how to use the dynamic debug (dyndbg) feature. Dynamic debug is designed to allow you to dynamically enable/disable kernel code to obtain additional kernel information. Currently, if -CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set, then all pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls can -be dynamically enabled per-callsite. +CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set, then all pr_debug()/dev_dbg() and +print_hex_dump_debug()/print_hex_dump_bytes() calls can be dynamically +enabled per-callsite. + +If CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is not set, print_hex_dump_debug() is just +shortcut for print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG). + +For print_hex_dump_debug()/print_hex_dump_bytes(), format string is +its 'prefix_str' argument, if it is constant string; or "hexdump" +in case 'prefix_str' is build dynamically. Dynamic debug has even more useful features: @@ -202,6 +210,9 @@ The flags are: t Include thread ID in messages not generated from interrupt context _ No flags are set. (Or'd with others on input) +For print_hex_dump_debug() and print_hex_dump_bytes(), only 'p' flag +have meaning, other flags ignored. + For display, the flags are preceded by '=' (mnemonic: what the flags are currently equal to). |