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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.188.153] ([213.181.114.83]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4909c152570sm103972805e9.9.2026.06.01.05.05.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:05:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Cromie Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:04:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v3 02/24] docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20260601-dd-maint-2-v3-2-4a15b241bd3c@gmail.com> References: <20260601-dd-maint-2-v3-0-4a15b241bd3c@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260601-dd-maint-2-v3-0-4a15b241bd3c@gmail.com> To: Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Arnd Bergmann , Jason Baron , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Andrew Morton , Shuah Khan , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Jim Cromie , Louis Chauvet X-Mailer: b4 0.14.3 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; t=1780315495; l=1814; i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; s=20260203; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=Ybb0kJKNd2BJDDcZYbhZbCACFsLVAC7m/M+jXCdbe+s=; b=77QENcw7TwO5sbOCSCb3za5Eh6W1VtMb7ffsLgiJ6qjsY20R6qLFWJ9u0VHPdNWz7TZVh1MSu fXZPCPflAUnCuxlFjQ2BltAWo25IThXGyLGV8vp/+SKUfZSM2Av2QvG X-Developer-Key: i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; a=ed25519; pk=C6E5ODlPQo7ZBynATXH9wg7K6HxP0pIXyf4s38Qw0XE= When writing queries to >control, flags are parsed 1st, since they are the only required field, and they require specific compositions. So if the flags draw an error (on those specifics), then keyword errors aren't reported. This can be mildly confusing/annoying, so explain it instead. cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie --- Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst index 4b14d9fd0300..9c2f096ed1d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst @@ -109,10 +109,19 @@ The match-spec's select *prdbgs* from the catalog, upon which to apply the flags-spec, all constraints are ANDed together. An absent keyword is the same as keyword "*". - -A match specification is a keyword, which selects the attribute of -the callsite to be compared, and a value to compare against. Possible -keywords are::: +Note that since the match-spec can be empty, the flags are checked 1st, +then the pairs of keyword and value. Flag errs will hide keyword errs:: + + bash-5.2# ddcmd mod bar +foo + dyndbg: read 13 bytes from userspace + dyndbg: query 0: "mod bar +foo" mod:* + dyndbg: unknown flag 'o' + dyndbg: flags parse failed + dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 1 errs + +So a match-spec is a keyword, which selects the attribute of the +callsite to be compared, and a value to compare against. Possible +keywords are:: match-spec ::= 'func' string | 'file' string | -- 2.54.0