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[24.214.85.55]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 00721157ae682-8025c96fdb3sm21073127b3.1.2026.06.21.06.57.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:57:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Yury Norov X-Google-Original-From: Yury Norov Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:57:05 -0400 To: Yury Norov Cc: Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu , Mark Rutland , Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , John Ogness , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Julia Lawall , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h Message-ID: References: <20260621093430.264983361@kernel.org> <20260621093811.168514984@kernel.org> <20260621054721.7cde38f0@fedora> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 09:39:17AM -0400, Yury Norov wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 05:47:21AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:34:32 -0400 > > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > Instead of having trace_printk.h included in kernel.h, create a config > > > TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING that when set will update the CFLAGS in the > > > Makefile to allow developers to add trace_printk() without the need to add > > > the include for it. Having it included in the Makefile keeps it from being > > > in the dependency chain and it will not waste extra CPU cycles for those > > > building the kernel without using trace_printk. > > > > Bah, I only tested with the config option enabled, and missed some > > dependencies with it disabled. > > Yes you did. > > > For instance, rcu.h also uses ftrace_dump() so that too needs to go > > into kernel.h. > > No, it shouldn't. > > > I also need to add a few more includes to trace_printk.h. > > > OK, I need to run this through all my tests to find where else I missed > > adding the includes. But the idea should hopefully satisfy everyone. > > If you include it under config in kernel.h, to make the kernel buildable, I mean: in kernel.h or in Makefile. > you need to include trace_printk.h explicitly where it's actually used. > IOW, apply my patch v4-7. > > Then, developers who use trace_printk() on their development machine, > will be really frustrated when their debugging code will break client > build just because CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING is disabled there. > They will spend a day, at best, communicating with remote managers, > and end up with adding #include in the files > they touch. Is that your plan? > > If I was one of those developers, the solution would be simple for me: > don't use trace_printk() at all. > > Thanks, > Yury