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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm: choose debug/uncompress.h include when uncompress debug is disabled
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:11:48PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > > Even if uncompress debug is disabled, some board will continue to print
> > > > information during uncompress step.
> > >
> > > Are you talking about DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS?
> > > Should I read the sentence as "even if DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is not selected,
> > > some board will continue to print information during the uncompress step"?
> > >
> > > Isn't this a bug in the platform specific code that should be fixed anyway?
> >
> > Hang on, let's be clear what's going on here.
> >
> > 1. The normal output from the decompressor is *not* debugging. By that
> > I mean the "Uncompressing kernel... done" message. That is part of
> > user output.
> >
> > 2. In non-multiplatform environments, the decompressor will normally use
> > the putc/flush functions found in arch/arm/mach-*/include/mach/uncompress.h
> > to implement its output, irrespective of the DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS setting.
> > (An interesting point is that DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS really should depend on
> > MULTIPLATFORM so that this point is explicit - the option requires
> > MULTIPLATFORM to be set.)
> >
> > 3. DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS allows the functions which we've implemented for LL
> > debug to be re-used for decompressor output.
> >
> > 4. When DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is not set in a multiplatform kernel, the
> > decompressors putc() and flush() functions are stubbed out.
> >
> > So, it's quite right that you get output from the decompressor even when
> > DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is not set. There's no problem with that.
>
> Does this patch help to explain this?

Yes it does, thanks.


> arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
> index e401a76..583f4a0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -804,9 +804,19 @@ config DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
>
> config DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS
> bool
> - default y if ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM && DEBUG_LL && \
> - !DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART && \
> + depends on ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
> + default y if DEBUG_LL && !DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART && \
> !DEBUG_TEGRA_UART
> + help
> + This option influences the normal decompressor output only for
> + multiplatform kernels. Normally, multiplatform kernels disable
> + decompressor output because it is not possible to know where to
> + send the decompressor output.
> +
> + When this option is set, the selected DEBUG_LL output method
> + will be re-used for normal decompressor output on multiplatform
> + kernels.
> +
>
> config UNCOMPRESS_INCLUDE
> string
>


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