Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:12:21 +0200 | Subject | Re: enable dynamic debug - doubt | From | Andy Shevchenko <> |
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@gmail.com> wrote: > [ Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the list] > > Hello, > > The behaviour of dynamic debug prints are controlled via writing to a > control file in the 'debugfs' > filesystem(<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control). > > Here I would like to know what order should the echo(for eg: echo -n > 'module sdhci +p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control) be > applied in relation to the module load - before or after?
Just imagine how debugfs works. It has probes over the code where *_dbg/debug() prints are used. Those special data structures are kept in the specific part of the file / kernel. If there is no module, how will kernel know that there is a portion of such data there?
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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