From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1S7Hwq-0007ra-9M for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:58:52 +0000 Received: by dakp5 with SMTP id p5so145310dak.36 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F5EB7E0.8040701@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:58:40 +0800 From: Cong Wang MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option References: <1331188782-10912-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> <20120313002116.GB24671@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20120313002116.GB24671@verge.net.au> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Simon Horman Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org 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. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec