[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] device-mapper: use dynamic debug instead of compile-time config option

[Mike Snitzer]

On Thu, May 14 2020 at  3:53am -0400,
Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com> wrote:

> On 2020/05/14 15:09, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > Switch to use dynamic debug to avoid having recompile the kernel
> > just to enable debugging messages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/device-mapper.h | 5 ++---
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> > index af48d9da3916..4694e1bb4196 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
> > @@ -557,12 +557,11 @@ void *dm_vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size);
> >  #define DMINFO(fmt, ...) pr_info(DM_FMT(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >  #define DMINFO_LIMIT(fmt, ...) pr_info_ratelimited(DM_FMT(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >  
> > +#define DMDEBUG_LIMIT(fmt, ...) pr_debug_ratelimited(DM_FMT(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 
> Why do you move this one out of the #ifdef CONFIG_DM_DEBUG scope ?

I'd imagine because it already uses dynamic debugging and is useful even
if CONFIG_DM_DEBUG isn't set.  Makes sense to me.  I'll add a note about
it in the commit header though.

Mike