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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:58:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5EB7E0.8040701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313002116.GB24671@verge.net.au>

On 03/13/2012 08:21 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:39:38PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Currently the debugging code is under #ifdef DEBUG, which
>> means when we want to debug, we have to re-compile the source
>> code with -DDEBUG. This is not convenient, we want to have
>> a generic --debug option so that we can enable debugging code
>> without re-compiling.
>>
>> This patch moves the arch-specific --debug to generic place
>> and moves code under #ifdef DEBUG to --debug on x86.
>>
>> BTW, the size of kexec binary increases very little after this patch.
>
> Hi Cong,
>
> In general I am happy with making kexec easier to use.  However, it would
> be nice not to make kexec-tools even bigger than it already is. Its size
> already seems to be an issue for some people on ARM at least.  Do you
> have some feeling for the change in binary size on architectures other than
> i386?
>

Hi,

I only tested the patches on x86 and ppc.

Sorry I don't have a chance to test it on ARM, on ARM it just adds a 
small function dump_memory_ranges(), if this would be a problem, feel 
free to drop patch 3/5. :)

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08  6:39 [PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option Cong Wang
2012-03-08  6:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] ppc: move DEBUG code to --debug Cong Wang
2012-03-15  6:38   ` Simon Horman
2012-03-08  6:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: " Cong Wang
2012-03-08  6:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] mips: " Cong Wang
2012-03-08  6:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] sh: " Cong Wang
2012-03-13  0:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option Simon Horman
2012-03-13  2:58   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-03-15  6:48     ` Simon Horman
2012-03-20 13:29       ` Cong Wang
2012-04-06  2:22         ` Simon Horman

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