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2010-10-22Dynamic Debug: Introduce ddebug_query= boot parameterThomas Renninger
Dynamic debug lacks the ability to enable debug messages at boot time. One could patch initramfs or service startup scripts to write to /sys/../dynamic_debug/control, but this sucks. This patch makes it possible to pass a query in the same format one can write to /sys/../dynamic_debug/control via boot param. When dynamic debug gets initialized, this query will automatically be applied. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Acked-by: jbaron@redhat.com Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of wordsGreg Banks
Allow simple quoting of words in the dynamic debug control language. This allows more natural specification when using the control language to match against printk formats, e.g #echo -n 'format "Setting node for non-present cpu" +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control instead of #echo -n 'format Setting\040node\040for\040non-present\040cpu +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control Adjust the dynamic debug documention to describe that and provide a new example. Adjust the existing examples in the documentation to reflect the current whitespace escaping behaviour when reading the control file. Fix some minor documentation trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24dynamic debug: update docsJason Baron
updates the documentation for 'dynamic debug' feature. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>