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To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
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Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
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commit 47ea6f99d06e ("dyndbg: use ESCAPE_SPACE for cat control")
changed the control-file to display format strings with "\n" rather
than "\012". Update the docs to match the new reality.
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
index 095a63892257..4b14d9fd0300 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ You can view the currently configured behaviour in the *prdbg* catalog::
:#> head -n7 /proc/dynamic_debug/control
# filename:lineno [module]function flags format
- init/main.c:1179 [main]initcall_blacklist =_ "blacklisting initcall %s\012
- init/main.c:1218 [main]initcall_blacklisted =_ "initcall %s blacklisted\012"
- init/main.c:1424 [main]run_init_process =_ " with arguments:\012"
- init/main.c:1426 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\012"
- init/main.c:1427 [main]run_init_process =_ " with environment:\012"
- init/main.c:1429 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\012"
+ init/main.c:1179 [main]initcall_blacklist =_ "blacklisting initcall %s\n"
+ init/main.c:1218 [main]initcall_blacklisted =_ "initcall %s blacklisted\n"
+ init/main.c:1424 [main]run_init_process =_ " with arguments:\n"
+ init/main.c:1426 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\n"
+ init/main.c:1427 [main]run_init_process =_ " with environment:\n"
+ init/main.c:1429 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\n"
The 3rd space-delimited column shows the current flags, preceded by
a ``=`` for easy use with grep/cut. ``=p`` shows enabled callsites.
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ query/commands to the control file. Example::
:#> ddcmd '-p; module main func run* +p'
:#> grep =p /proc/dynamic_debug/control
- init/main.c:1424 [main]run_init_process =p " with arguments:\012"
- init/main.c:1426 [main]run_init_process =p " %s\012"
- init/main.c:1427 [main]run_init_process =p " with environment:\012"
- init/main.c:1429 [main]run_init_process =p " %s\012"
+ init/main.c:1424 [main]run_init_process =p " with arguments:\n"
+ init/main.c:1426 [main]run_init_process =p " %s\n"
+ init/main.c:1427 [main]run_init_process =p " with environment:\n"
+ init/main.c:1429 [main]run_init_process =p " %s\n"
Error messages go to console/syslog::
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
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 <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
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 |
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
Move BOUNDED_SECTION_* macros to a new helper file:
include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h and include it back into
vmlinux.lds.h. This allows its reuse later to fix a failure to keep
dyndbg sections in some circumstances.
NOTES:
These macros are only for use in vmlinux.lds.h, where the _start &
_end symbols are needed. Modules keep sections separate in ELF
sections, with their boundaries known, so the _start and _end are not
useful, and may confuse tools not expecting them.
This patch ignores a checkpatch warning, because new file is covered
by "GENERIC INCLUDE/ASM HEADER FILES" in MAINTAINERS
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
v3: move include to top
---
include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 31 +------------------------
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c29293ca7fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ _BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \
+ KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
+ _END_##_label_ = .;
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ _label_##_BEGIN_ = .; \
+ KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
+ _label_##_END_ = .;
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
+
+#define HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
+ _HDR_##_label_ = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
+
+#define HEADERED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
+ _label_##_HDR_ = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
+
+#define HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
+ HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
+
+#define HEADERED_SECTION(_sec) HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
+
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 60c8c22fd3e4..9c61dd083f26 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
* [__nosave_begin, __nosave_end] for the nosave data
*/
+#include <asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h>
#include <asm-generic/codetag.lds.h>
#ifndef LOAD_OFFSET
@@ -211,36 +212,6 @@
# endif
#endif
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
- _BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
- _END_##_label_ = .;
-
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
- _label_##_BEGIN_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
- _label_##_END_ = .;
-
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
-
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
- _HDR_##_label_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
- _label_##_HDR_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
- HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION(_sec) HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
-
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
#define LIKELY_PROFILE() \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_ftrace_annotated_branch, _annotated_branch_profile)
--
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To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
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These macros are unused, no point in carrying them any more.
NB: these macros were just moved to bounded_sections.lds.h, from
vmlinux.lds.h, which is the known entity, and therefore more
meaningful in the 1-line summary, so thats what I used as the topic.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 15 ---------------
1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
index 8c29293ca7fb..268cdc34389b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
@@ -18,19 +18,4 @@
#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
- _HDR_##_label_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
- _label_##_HDR_ = .; \
- KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
- HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION(_sec) HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
-
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */
--
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To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
Almost all uses of the BOUNDED_SECTION macros are ALIGN(8), either
explicitly, or by being below an aligned section containing x*8 byte
objects. The noteworthy exception is BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg), which
immediately follows BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg_classes).
On i386, struct _ddebug_classmap is 28 bytes, so without an explicit
ALIGN(8) in the macro, the following __dyndbg section gets misaligned,
causing a NULL ptr deref in dynamic_debug_init().
So fix this with an explicit ALIGN(8) in the existing BOUNDED_SECTION
macros, and introduce _ALIGNED variants to handle the cases with an
explicit . = ALIGN(x)
Also add explicit alignments for: EXCEPTION_TABLE, ORC_UNWIND_TABLE,
TRACEDATA, and INIT_SETUP.
update BOUNDED_SECTION uses inside . = ALIGN(x) stanzas to use
_ALIGNED variants, but keep the outer ALIGNs so the symbols between
them are not "re-aligned".
In particular, scripts/sorttable.c does not tolerate sloppy padding.
At the top of ORC_UNWIND_TABLE, add . = ALIGN(4) to match the struct
orc_header __align() call in the code:
commit b9f174c811e3 ("x86/unwind/orc: Add ELF section with ORC version identifier")
Suggested-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com> # _ALIGNED variants.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/177402491426.6181.12855763650074831089.b4-review@b4/
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
v3: sashiko picked up 2 cases, added to the explicit list above
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260515-asm-generic-1-v3-0-680b273666d4%40gmail.com
---
include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 17 ++++++++++++++---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 15 ++++++++-------
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
index 268cdc34389b..8ff3e3420f60 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
@@ -3,19 +3,30 @@
#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
#define _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \
+ . = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_); \
_BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \
KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
_END_##_label_ = .;
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8)
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \
+ . = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_); \
_label_##_BEGIN_ = .; \
KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
_label_##_END_ = .;
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8)
+
#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \
BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _ALIGNED_) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop, _ALIGNED_)
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 9c61dd083f26..477333bdf3d3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@
#define EXCEPTION_TABLE(align) \
. = ALIGN(align); \
__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__ex_table, ___ex_table) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(__ex_table, ___ex_table, align) \
}
/*
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@
#define BTF \
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
.BTF : AT(ADDR(.BTF) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.BTF, _BTF) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.BTF, _BTF, PAGE_SIZE) \
} \
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
.BTF_ids : AT(ADDR(.BTF_ids) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
@@ -832,16 +832,17 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
#define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE \
+ . = ALIGN(4); \
.orc_header : AT(ADDR(.orc_header) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_header, _orc_header) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_header, _orc_header, 4) \
} \
. = ALIGN(4); \
.orc_unwind_ip : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind_ip) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip, 4)\
} \
. = ALIGN(2); \
.orc_unwind : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind, 2) \
} \
text_size = _etext - _stext; \
. = ALIGN(4); \
@@ -869,7 +870,7 @@
#define TRACEDATA \
. = ALIGN(4); \
.tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.tracedata, __tracedata, _start, _end) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(.tracedata, __tracedata, _start, _end, 4) \
}
#else
#define TRACEDATA
@@ -904,7 +905,7 @@
#define INIT_SETUP(initsetup_align) \
. = ALIGN(initsetup_align); \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.init.setup, __setup, _start, _end)
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(.init.setup, __setup, _start, _end, initsetup_align)
#define INIT_CALLS_LEVEL(level) \
__initcall##level##_start = .; \
--
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] The implicit 8-byte alignment added to `BOUNDED_SECTION` macros corrupts the `.notes` ELF section by injecting padding at the start, breaking `PT_NOTE` parsing.
- [Low] The patch fails to apply the `_ALIGNED` variant to `.BTF_ids`, violating the commit message's stated refactoring rules.
--
commit 8b6f5abfb8521b62106505848b2663ec04bac566
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Subject: vmlinux.lds.h: Fix ALIGN(8) omission causing NULL ptr on i386
This commit explicitly adds 8-byte alignment to BOUNDED_SECTION macros to
prevent unaligned section pointers. It also introduces _ALIGNED variants
for manually aligned sections and updates existing macros to use them.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/177402491426.6181.12855763650074831089.b4-review@b4/
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
> index 268cdc34389b0..8ff3e3420f60a 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
[ ... ]
> -#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
> +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \
> + . = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_); \
> _BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \
> KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
> _END_##_label_ = .;
>
> -#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
> +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
> + BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8)
[Severity: High]
Does this implicit 8-byte alignment break the .notes ELF section by
injecting padding?
The NOTES macro in vmlinux.lds.h defines the .notes output section, which
inherits a 4-byte alignment from its input *(.note.*) sections. It often
follows RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE, which can end on a 4-byte boundary.
If the output section VMA is not 8-byte aligned, this new explicit
. = ALIGN(8) inside the BOUNDED_SECTION_BY macro will inject 4 bytes of
zero padding at the beginning of the .notes section.
This padding can be misinterpreted as an empty note header by external
tools and the kernel, breaking PT_NOTE parsing. Should the NOTES macro be
updated to use BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.note.*, _notes, 4)?
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index 9c61dd083f26a..477333bdf3d35 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
[ ... ]
> @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@
> #define BTF \
> . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
> .BTF : AT(ADDR(.BTF) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
> - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.BTF, _BTF) \
> + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.BTF, _BTF, PAGE_SIZE) \
> } \
> . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
> .BTF_ids : AT(ADDR(.BTF_ids) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
[Severity: Low]
The commit message states "update BOUNDED_SECTION uses inside . = ALIGN(x)
stanzas to use _ALIGNED variants".
Was .BTF_ids intentionally omitted from this rule?
It sits right below .BTF and also has an outer . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), but
still uses the base BOUNDED_SECTION_BY macro. This doesn't cause functional
issues since it is already page-aligned, but it leaves the macro usage
inconsistent with the stated refactoring rules.
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
The BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL and BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL macros
were recently updated to inherently enforce an 8-byte alignment. This
makes the explicit '. = ALIGN(8);' statements preceding 'naked' macro
calls in vmlinux.lds.h redundant.
Remove these redundant alignment directives to clean up the file and
clarify that the macros handle their own alignment padding.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 477333bdf3d3..0e4677b71d16 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
#define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION(_kprobe_blacklist)
#else
#define KPROBE_BLACKLIST()
@@ -244,7 +243,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
#define FTRACE_EVENTS() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION(_ftrace_events) \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_ftrace_eval_map, _ftrace_eval_maps)
#else
@@ -261,7 +259,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
#define TRACE_SYSCALLS() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__syscalls_metadata, _syscalls_metadata)
#else
#define TRACE_SYSCALLS()
@@ -276,7 +273,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON
#define EARLYCON_TABLE() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__earlycon_table, __earlycon_table, , _end)
#else
#define EARLYCON_TABLE()
@@ -284,11 +280,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
#define LSM_TABLE() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.lsm_info.init, _lsm_info, __start, __end)
#define EARLY_LSM_TABLE() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.early_lsm_info.init, _early_lsm_info, __start, __end)
#else
#define LSM_TABLE()
@@ -314,7 +308,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
#define ACPI_PROBE_TABLE(name) \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table, \
__##name##_acpi_probe_table,, _end)
#else
@@ -323,7 +316,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL
#define THERMAL_TABLE(name) \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_thermal_table, \
__##name##_thermal_table,, _end)
#else
@@ -403,12 +395,10 @@
__end_init_stack = .;
#define JUMP_TABLE_DATA \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__jump_table, ___jump_table)
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
#define STATIC_CALL_DATA \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.static_call_sites, _static_call_sites) \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.static_call_tramp_key, _static_call_tramp_key)
#else
@@ -453,7 +443,6 @@
*(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) *(.data.rel.ro*) \
SCHED_DATA \
RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__tracepoints_ptrs, ___tracepoints_ptrs) \
*(__tracepoints_strings)/* Tracepoints: strings */ \
} \
@@ -946,12 +935,10 @@
/* Alignment must be consistent with (kunit_suite *) in include/kunit/test.h */
#define KUNIT_TABLE() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.kunit_test_suites, __kunit_suites, _start, _end)
/* Alignment must be consistent with (kunit_suite *) in include/kunit/test.h */
#define KUNIT_INIT_TABLE() \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.kunit_init_test_suites, \
__kunit_init_suites, _start, _end)
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
With CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y, several build configs had
problems with __dyndbg* sections getting lost in drm drivers. Fix
this by following the model demonstrated in codetag.lds.h.
Introduce include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h, to bundle dynamic-debug's
multiple sections together, into 2 macros:
vmlinux.lds.h DATA_DATA: move the 2 BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg*)
calls into dyndbg.lds.h DYNDBG_SECTIONS(). vmlinux.lds.h now includes
the new file and calls the new macro.
MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS keeps the 2 sections by name, aligns them and sets
the output address to 0 when the sections are empty.
dyndbg.lds.h includes (reuses) bounded-section.lds.h
scripts/module.lds.S: now calls MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS right before the
CODETAG macro (consistent with their placements in vmlinux.lds.h), and
also includes dyndbg.lds.h
This isolates vmlinux.lds.h from further __dyndbg section additions.
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
v3: move #includes to top, drop extra ALIGN(8) in DYNDBG_SECTIONS, add RvBy
v2: Address linker script review feedback for relocatable modules.
MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS() used the BOUNDED_SECTION_BY() macro, which
proved problematic for kernel modules for two reasons:
1. Unwanted Empty Sections:
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY() automatically generates `__start` and `__stop`
symbols. When applied to `MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS()`, the linker assumes
the sections are populated due to the symbol definitions, forcing an
empty `__dyndbg` and `__dyndbg_classes` output section in every
compiled module, even those without dynamic debug configuration.
Since the module loader uses `section_objs()` to locate data via
ELF headers instead of relying on `__start`/`__stop` symbols, these
assignments are completely unnecessary.
2. Non-zero Output Addresses:
During relocatable linking (e.g., `ld.bfd -r`), omitting an explicit
base address causes the section to inherit the current location
counter. This results in non-zero sh_addr values in `.ko` files,
which is confusing, degrades compressibility, and can cause issues
with external tools parsing the ELF.
Fix both issues by dropping `BOUNDED_SECTION_BY()` in favor of a simple
`KEEP(*(...))` constraint and explicitly defining the sections with a `0`
base address: `__dyndbg 0 : ALIGN(8) { ... }`.
fixup-inc-vml
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 ++----
scripts/module.lds.S | 2 ++
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c2c6d79275c6..e87bfe2e9e62 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9079,6 +9079,7 @@ DYNAMIC DEBUG
M: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
M: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
S: Maintained
+F: include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
F: include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
F: lib/dynamic_debug.c
F: lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9d8951bef688
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_DYNDBG_LDS_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_DYNDBG_LDS_H
+
+#include <asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h>
+#define DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg, ___dyndbg) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_classes, ___dyndbg_classes)
+
+#define MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
+ __dyndbg 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
+ KEEP(*(__dyndbg)) \
+ } \
+ __dyndbg_classes 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
+ KEEP(*(__dyndbg_classes)) \
+ }
+
+#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_DYNDBG_LDS_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 0e4677b71d16..f2ec36a35809 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
#include <asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h>
#include <asm-generic/codetag.lds.h>
+#include <asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h>
#ifndef LOAD_OFFSET
#define LOAD_OFFSET 0
@@ -344,10 +345,7 @@
*(.data..do_once) \
STRUCT_ALIGN(); \
*(__tracepoints) \
- /* implement dynamic printk debug */ \
- . = ALIGN(8); \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_classes, ___dyndbg_classes) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg, ___dyndbg) \
+ DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
CODETAG_SECTIONS() \
LIKELY_PROFILE() \
BRANCH_PROFILE() \
diff --git a/scripts/module.lds.S b/scripts/module.lds.S
index b62683061d79..2e62dc5bd5d4 100644
--- a/scripts/module.lds.S
+++ b/scripts/module.lds.S
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#endif
#include <asm-generic/codetag.lds.h>
+#include <asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h>
SECTIONS {
/DISCARD/ : {
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ SECTIONS {
*(.rodata..L*)
}
+ MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS()
MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS()
}
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
ddebug_change() is a big (~100 lines) function with a nested for loop.
The outer loop walks the per-module ddebug_tables list, and does
module stuff: it filters on a query's "module FOO*" and "class BAR",
failures here skip the entire inner loop.
The inner loop (60 lines) scans a module's descriptors. It starts
with a long block of filters on function, line, format, and the
validated "BAR" class (or the legacy/_DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT).
These filters "continue" past pr_debugs that don't match the query
criteria, before it falls through the code below that counts matches,
then adjusts the flags and static-keys. This is unnecessarily hard to
think about.
So move the per-descriptor filter-block into a boolean function:
ddebug_match_desc(desc), and change each "continue" to "return false".
This puts a clear interface in place, so any future changes are either
inside, outside, or across this interface.
also fix checkpatch complaints about spaces and braces.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 18a71a9108d3..6b1e983cfedc 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -172,6 +172,52 @@ static struct ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table cons
* callsites, normally the same as number of changes. If verbose,
* logs the changes. Takes ddebug_lock.
*/
+static bool ddebug_match_desc(const struct ddebug_query *query,
+ struct _ddebug *dp,
+ int valid_class)
+{
+ /* match site against query-class */
+ if (dp->class_id != valid_class)
+ return false;
+
+ /* match against the source filename */
+ if (query->filename &&
+ !match_wildcard(query->filename, dp->filename) &&
+ !match_wildcard(query->filename,
+ kbasename(dp->filename)) &&
+ !match_wildcard(query->filename,
+ trim_prefix(dp->filename)))
+ return false;
+
+ /* match against the function */
+ if (query->function &&
+ !match_wildcard(query->function, dp->function))
+ return false;
+
+ /* match against the format */
+ if (query->format) {
+ if (*query->format == '^') {
+ char *p;
+ /* anchored search. match must be at beginning */
+ p = strstr(dp->format, query->format + 1);
+ if (p != dp->format)
+ return false;
+ } else if (!strstr(dp->format, query->format)) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* match against the line number range */
+ if (query->first_lineno &&
+ dp->lineno < query->first_lineno)
+ return false;
+ if (query->last_lineno &&
+ dp->lineno > query->last_lineno)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
struct flag_settings *modifiers)
{
@@ -204,42 +250,7 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
for (i = 0; i < dt->num_ddebugs; i++) {
struct _ddebug *dp = &dt->ddebugs[i];
- /* match site against query-class */
- if (dp->class_id != valid_class)
- continue;
-
- /* match against the source filename */
- if (query->filename &&
- !match_wildcard(query->filename, dp->filename) &&
- !match_wildcard(query->filename,
- kbasename(dp->filename)) &&
- !match_wildcard(query->filename,
- trim_prefix(dp->filename)))
- continue;
-
- /* match against the function */
- if (query->function &&
- !match_wildcard(query->function, dp->function))
- continue;
-
- /* match against the format */
- if (query->format) {
- if (*query->format == '^') {
- char *p;
- /* anchored search. match must be at beginning */
- p = strstr(dp->format, query->format+1);
- if (p != dp->format)
- continue;
- } else if (!strstr(dp->format, query->format))
- continue;
- }
-
- /* match against the line number range */
- if (query->first_lineno &&
- dp->lineno < query->first_lineno)
- continue;
- if (query->last_lineno &&
- dp->lineno > query->last_lineno)
+ if (!ddebug_match_desc(query, dp, valid_class))
continue;
nfound++;
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
Add the stub macro for !DYNAMIC_DEBUG builds, after moving the
original macro-defn down under the big ifdef. Do it now so future
changes have a cleaner starting point.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index 05743900a116..a10adac8e8f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -93,27 +93,6 @@ struct ddebug_class_map {
enum class_map_type map_type;
};
-/**
- * DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP - declare classnames known by a module
- * @_var: a struct ddebug_class_map, passed to module_param_cb
- * @_type: enum class_map_type, chooses bits/verbose, numeric/symbolic
- * @_base: offset of 1st class-name. splits .class_id space
- * @classes: class-names used to control class'd prdbgs
- */
-#define DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(_var, _maptype, _base, ...) \
- static const char *_var##_classnames[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }; \
- static struct ddebug_class_map __aligned(8) __used \
- __section("__dyndbg_classes") _var = { \
- .mod = THIS_MODULE, \
- .mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
- .base = _base, \
- .map_type = _maptype, \
- .length = NUM_TYPE_ARGS(char*, __VA_ARGS__), \
- .class_names = _var##_classnames, \
- }
-#define NUM_TYPE_ARGS(eltype, ...) \
- (sizeof((eltype[]){__VA_ARGS__}) / sizeof(eltype))
-
/* encapsulate linker provided built-in (or module) dyndbg data */
struct _ddebug_info {
struct _ddebug *descs;
@@ -138,6 +117,27 @@ struct ddebug_class_param {
#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG) || \
(defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE) && defined(DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE))
+/**
+ * DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP - declare classnames known by a module
+ * @_var: a struct ddebug_class_map, passed to module_param_cb
+ * @_type: enum class_map_type, chooses bits/verbose, numeric/symbolic
+ * @_base: offset of 1st class-name. splits .class_id space
+ * @classes: class-names used to control class'd prdbgs
+ */
+#define DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(_var, _maptype, _base, ...) \
+ static const char *_var##_classnames[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }; \
+ static struct ddebug_class_map __aligned(8) __used \
+ __section("__dyndbg_classes") _var = { \
+ .mod = THIS_MODULE, \
+ .mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
+ .base = _base, \
+ .map_type = _maptype, \
+ .length = NUM_TYPE_ARGS(char*, __VA_ARGS__), \
+ .class_names = _var##_classnames, \
+ }
+#define NUM_TYPE_ARGS(eltype, ...) \
+ (sizeof((eltype[]) {__VA_ARGS__}) / sizeof(eltype))
+
extern __printf(2, 3)
void __dynamic_pr_debug(struct _ddebug *descriptor, const char *fmt, ...);
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
#define DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA(name, fmt)
#define DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(descriptor) false
+#define DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(...)
#define dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
When a dyndbg classname is unknown to a kernel module, the callsite is
un-addressable via >control queries.
The control-file displays this condition as "class unknown,"
currently. That spelling is sub-optimal/too-generic, so change it to
"class:_UNKNOWN_" to loudly announce the erroneous situation, and to
make it uniquely greppable.
NB: while this might be seen as a user-visible change, this shouldn't
disqualify the change:
a- it reports classmap coding error condition, which should be
detected before review.
b- SHOUTING the error makes it uniquely greppable.
c- the classmap feature is marked BROKEN for its only current user.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 6b1e983cfedc..a9caf84ddb22 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ static int ddebug_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
if (class)
seq_printf(m, " class:%s", class);
else
- seq_printf(m, " class unknown, _id:%d", dp->class_id);
+ seq_printf(m, " class:_UNKNOWN_ _id:%d", dp->class_id);
}
seq_putc(m, '\n');
--
2.54.0
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
Remove the DD_CLASS_TYPE_*_NAMES classmap types and code.
These 2 classmap types accept class names at the PARAM interface, for
example:
echo +DRM_UT_CORE,-DRM_UT_KMS > /sys/module/drm/parameters/debug_names
The code works, but its only used by test-dynamic-debug, and wasn't
asked for by anyone else, so reduce LOC & test-surface; simplify things.
Also rename enum class_map_type to enum ddebug_class_map_type.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
move RvB after SoB
respect const instr in param_set_dyndbg_module_classes, return -EINVAL on classtype err.
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 23 +++-------
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 99 +++----------------------------------------
lib/test_dynamic_debug.c | 26 ------------
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index a10adac8e8f0..aa45dcf36a44 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -59,27 +59,16 @@ struct _ddebug {
#endif
} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
-enum class_map_type {
+enum ddebug_class_map_type {
DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS,
/**
- * DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS: classes are independent, one per bit.
- * expecting hex input. Built for drm.debug, basis for other types.
+ * DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS: classes are independent, mapped to bits[0..N].
+ * Expects hex input. Built for drm.debug, basis for other types.
*/
DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM,
/**
- * DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM: input is numeric level, 0-N.
- * N turns on just bits N-1 .. 0, so N=0 turns all bits off.
- */
- DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES,
- /**
- * DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES: input is a CSV of [+-]CLASS_NAMES,
- * classes are independent, like _DISJOINT_BITS.
- */
- DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES,
- /**
- * DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES: input is a CSV of [+-]CLASS_NAMES,
- * intended for names like: INFO,DEBUG,TRACE, with a module prefix
- * avoid EMERG,ALERT,CRIT,ERR,WARNING: they're not debug
+ * DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM: input is numeric level, 0..N.
+ * Input N turns on bits 0..N-1
*/
};
@@ -90,7 +79,7 @@ struct ddebug_class_map {
const char **class_names;
const int length;
const int base; /* index of 1st .class_id, allows split/shared space */
- enum class_map_type map_type;
+ enum ddebug_class_map_type map_type;
};
/* encapsulate linker provided built-in (or module) dyndbg data */
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index a9caf84ddb22..0377d9f8dcd1 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -646,76 +646,6 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
#define CLASSMAP_BITMASK(width) ((1UL << (width)) - 1)
-/* accept comma-separated-list of [+-] classnames */
-static int param_set_dyndbg_classnames(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
-{
- const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
- const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
- unsigned long curr_bits, old_bits;
- char *cl_str, *p, *tmp;
- int cls_id, totct = 0;
- bool wanted;
-
- cl_str = tmp = kstrdup_and_replace(instr, '\n', '\0', GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tmp)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- /* start with previously set state-bits, then modify */
- curr_bits = old_bits = *dcp->bits;
- vpr_info("\"%s\" > %s:0x%lx\n", cl_str, KP_NAME(kp), curr_bits);
-
- for (; cl_str; cl_str = p) {
- p = strchr(cl_str, ',');
- if (p)
- *p++ = '\0';
-
- if (*cl_str == '-') {
- wanted = false;
- cl_str++;
- } else {
- wanted = true;
- if (*cl_str == '+')
- cl_str++;
- }
- cls_id = match_string(map->class_names, map->length, cl_str);
- if (cls_id < 0) {
- pr_err("%s unknown to %s\n", cl_str, KP_NAME(kp));
- continue;
- }
-
- /* have one or more valid class_ids of one *_NAMES type */
- switch (map->map_type) {
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES:
- /* the +/- pertains to a single bit */
- if (test_bit(cls_id, &curr_bits) == wanted) {
- v3pr_info("no change on %s\n", cl_str);
- continue;
- }
- curr_bits ^= BIT(cls_id);
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &curr_bits, dcp->bits);
- *dcp->bits = curr_bits;
- v2pr_info("%s: changed bit %d:%s\n", KP_NAME(kp), cls_id,
- map->class_names[cls_id]);
- break;
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES:
- /* cls_id = N in 0..max. wanted +/- determines N or N-1 */
- old_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(*dcp->lvl);
- curr_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(cls_id + (wanted ? 1 : 0 ));
-
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &curr_bits, &old_bits);
- *dcp->lvl = (cls_id + (wanted ? 1 : 0));
- v2pr_info("%s: changed bit-%d: \"%s\" %lx->%lx\n", KP_NAME(kp), cls_id,
- map->class_names[cls_id], old_bits, curr_bits);
- break;
- default:
- pr_err("illegal map-type value %d\n", map->map_type);
- }
- }
- kfree(tmp);
- vpr_info("total matches: %d\n", totct);
- return 0;
-}
-
/**
* param_set_dyndbg_classes - class FOO >control
* @instr: string echo>d to sysfs, input depends on map_type
@@ -734,28 +664,14 @@ int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
unsigned long inrep, new_bits, old_bits;
int rc, totct = 0;
- switch (map->map_type) {
-
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES:
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES:
- /* handle [+-]classnames list separately, we are done here */
- return param_set_dyndbg_classnames(instr, kp);
-
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
- /* numeric input, accept and fall-thru */
- rc = kstrtoul(instr, 0, &inrep);
- if (rc) {
- pr_err("expecting numeric input: %s > %s\n", instr, KP_NAME(kp));
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- break;
- default:
- pr_err("%s: bad map type: %d\n", KP_NAME(kp), map->map_type);
+ rc = kstrtoul(instr, 0, &inrep);
+ if (rc) {
+ int len = strcspn(instr, "\n");
+ pr_err("expecting numeric input, not: %.*s > %s\n",
+ len, instr, KP_NAME(kp));
return -EINVAL;
}
- /* only _BITS,_NUM (numeric) map-types get here */
switch (map->map_type) {
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
/* expect bits. mask and warn if too many */
@@ -783,6 +699,7 @@ int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
break;
default:
pr_warn("%s: bad map type: %d\n", KP_NAME(kp), map->map_type);
+ return -EINVAL;
}
vpr_info("%s: total matches: %d\n", KP_NAME(kp), totct);
return 0;
@@ -804,12 +721,8 @@ int param_get_dyndbg_classes(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
switch (map->map_type) {
-
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES:
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%lx\n", *dcp->bits);
-
- case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES:
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", *dcp->lvl);
default:
diff --git a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
index 77c2a669b6af..74d183ebf3e0 100644
--- a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
@@ -74,13 +74,6 @@ DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(map_disjoint_bits, DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS, 0,
DD_SYS_WRAP(disjoint_bits, p);
DD_SYS_WRAP(disjoint_bits, T);
-/* symbolic input, independent bits */
-enum cat_disjoint_names { LOW = 11, MID, HI };
-DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(map_disjoint_names, DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES, 10,
- "LOW", "MID", "HI");
-DD_SYS_WRAP(disjoint_names, p);
-DD_SYS_WRAP(disjoint_names, T);
-
/* numeric verbosity, V2 > V1 related */
enum cat_level_num { V0 = 14, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6, V7 };
DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(map_level_num, DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM, 14,
@@ -88,13 +81,6 @@ DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(map_level_num, DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM, 14,
DD_SYS_WRAP(level_num, p);
DD_SYS_WRAP(level_num, T);
-/* symbolic verbosity */
-enum cat_level_names { L0 = 22, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7 };
-DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(map_level_names, DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES, 22,
- "L0", "L1", "L2", "L3", "L4", "L5", "L6", "L7");
-DD_SYS_WRAP(level_names, p);
-DD_SYS_WRAP(level_names, T);
-
/* stand-in for all pr_debug etc */
#define prdbg(SYM) __pr_debug_cls(SYM, #SYM " msg\n")
@@ -102,10 +88,6 @@ static void do_cats(void)
{
pr_debug("doing categories\n");
- prdbg(LOW);
- prdbg(MID);
- prdbg(HI);
-
prdbg(D2_CORE);
prdbg(D2_DRIVER);
prdbg(D2_KMS);
@@ -129,14 +111,6 @@ static void do_levels(void)
prdbg(V5);
prdbg(V6);
prdbg(V7);
-
- prdbg(L1);
- prdbg(L2);
- prdbg(L3);
- prdbg(L4);
- prdbg(L5);
- prdbg(L6);
- prdbg(L7);
}
static void do_prints(void)
--
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Low] The documentation comment for DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP references the old enum and outdated symbolic features.
--
commit 71dcc2d5d3240e498bff39bb8fa71e77409d1cbd
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg-API: remove DD_CLASS_TYPE_(DISJOINT|LEVEL)_NAMES and code
This commit removes the DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_NAMES and
DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NAMES classmap types. It simplifies the API by removing
support for symbolic class names in parameter inputs, which were primarily
used for tests. It also renames the class_map_type enum to
ddebug_class_map_type.
> diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> index a10adac8e8f00..aa45dcf36a448 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> @@ -59,27 +59,16 @@ struct _ddebug {
> #endif
> } __attribute__((aligned(8)));
>
> -enum class_map_type {
> +enum ddebug_class_map_type {
[Severity: Low]
This isn't a bug, but should the kernel-doc comment for
DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP be updated to reflect this new enum name and the
removed symbolic support?
It still refers to the old enum class_map_type and mentions numeric/symbolic
choices:
/**
* DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP - declare classnames known by a module
* @_var: a struct ddebug_class_map, passed to module_param_cb
* @_type: enum class_map_type, chooses bits/verbose, numeric/symbolic
* @_base: offset of 1st class-name. splits .class_id space
* @classes: class-names used to control class'd prdbgs
*/
> DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS,
[ ... ]
--
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2026-05-23 7:32 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] dyndbg: reduce verbose/debug clutter Jim Cromie
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
ARRAY_SIZE works here, since array decl is complete.
no functional change
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: include linux/array_size.h, correct commit subject
review after sob
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 4 +---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index aa45dcf36a44..e724f6b93663 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -121,11 +121,9 @@ struct ddebug_class_param {
.mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
.base = _base, \
.map_type = _maptype, \
- .length = NUM_TYPE_ARGS(char*, __VA_ARGS__), \
+ .length = ARRAY_SIZE(_var##_classnames), \
.class_names = _var##_classnames, \
}
-#define NUM_TYPE_ARGS(eltype, ...) \
- (sizeof((eltype[]) {__VA_ARGS__}) / sizeof(eltype))
extern __printf(2, 3)
void __dynamic_pr_debug(struct _ddebug *descriptor, const char *fmt, ...);
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 0377d9f8dcd1..6d9dbeb68ae8 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "dyndbg: " fmt
+#include <linux/array_size.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
--
2.54.0
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Low] `include/linux/dynamic_debug.h` uses `ARRAY_SIZE` in the `DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP` macro but does not include `<linux/array_size.h>`.
--
commit 618a01dd2902c43678e5c0a9f07fd35aaf566937
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg: drop NUM_TYPE_ARGS
This commit drops the NUM_TYPE_ARGS macro and replaces it with ARRAY_SIZE in
the DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP macro.
> diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> --- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> @@ -121,11 +121,9 @@ struct ddebug_class_param {
> .mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
> .base = _base, \
> .map_type = _maptype, \
> - .length = NUM_TYPE_ARGS(char*, __VA_ARGS__), \
> + .length = ARRAY_SIZE(_var##_classnames), \
[Severity: Low]
Does this macro expansion require linux/array_size.h to be included directly
in include/linux/dynamic_debug.h?
If a driver or module includes linux/dynamic_debug.h and invokes
DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP without independently including linux/array_size.h
(for example, via linux/kernel.h), it might fail to compile. It looks like
the include for linux/array_size.h was added to lib/dynamic_debug.c below,
instead of to this header file.
> .class_names = _var##_classnames, \
> }
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "dyndbg: " fmt
>
> +#include <linux/array_size.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
currently, for verbose=3, these are logged (blank lines for clarity):
dyndbg: query 0: "class DRM_UT_CORE +p" mod:*
dyndbg: split into words: "class" "DRM_UT_CORE" "+p"
dyndbg: op='+'
dyndbg: flags=0x1
dyndbg: *flagsp=0x1 *maskp=0xffffffff
dyndbg: parsed: func="" file="" module="" format="" lineno=0-0 class=...
dyndbg: no matches for query
dyndbg: no-match: func="" file="" module="" format="" lineno=0-0 class=...
dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 0 errs
That is excessive, so this patch:
- shrinks 3 lines of 2nd stanza to single line
- drops 1st 2 lines of 3rd stanza
3rd line is like 1st, with result, not procedure.
2nd line is just status, retold in 4th, with more info.
New output:
dyndbg: query 0: "class DRM_UT_CORE +p"
dyndbg: split into words: "class" "DRM_UT_CORE" "+p"
dyndbg: op='+' flags=0x1 maskp=0xffffffff
dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 0 errs
Also drop several verbose=3 messages in ddebug_add_module
When modprobing a module, dyndbg currently logs/says "add-module", and
then "skipping" if the module has no prdbgs. Instead just check 1st
and return quietly.
no functional change
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
RvB after SoB
trivial change to verbose-debug output line to output the actual
"module" keyword rather than "mod:", and do so only when the module is
constrained by the callchain (ie as part of a modprobe).
was: query X: "(keyword value)* [+-=]flags" mod:*
now: query X: "(keyword value)* [+-=]flags"
or query X: module FOO "keyword value)* [+-=]flags"
IOW, adjust output to reflect the input grammar more closely.
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 24 ++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 6d9dbeb68ae8..dfed3725aa44 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -277,9 +277,6 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
}
mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
- if (!nfound && verbose)
- pr_info("no matches for query\n");
-
return nfound;
}
@@ -512,7 +509,6 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
pr_err("bad flag-op %c, at start of %s\n", *str, str);
return -EINVAL;
}
- v3pr_info("op='%c'\n", op);
for (; *str ; ++str) {
for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(opt_array) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
@@ -526,7 +522,6 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
return -EINVAL;
}
}
- v3pr_info("flags=0x%x\n", modifiers->flags);
/* calculate final flags, mask based upon op */
switch (op) {
@@ -542,7 +537,7 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
modifiers->flags = 0;
break;
}
- v3pr_info("*flagsp=0x%x *maskp=0x%x\n", modifiers->flags, modifiers->mask);
+ v3pr_info("op='%c' flags=0x%x maskp=0x%x\n", op, modifiers->flags, modifiers->mask);
return 0;
}
@@ -552,7 +547,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_query(char *query_string, const char *modname)
struct flag_settings modifiers = {};
struct ddebug_query query = {};
#define MAXWORDS 9
- int nwords, nfound;
+ int nwords;
char *words[MAXWORDS];
nwords = ddebug_tokenize(query_string, words, MAXWORDS);
@@ -570,10 +565,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_query(char *query_string, const char *modname)
return -EINVAL;
}
/* actually go and implement the change */
- nfound = ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
- vpr_info_dq(&query, nfound ? "applied" : "no-match");
-
- return nfound;
+ return ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
}
/* handle multiple queries in query string, continue on error, return
@@ -594,7 +586,8 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
if (!query || !*query || *query == '#')
continue;
- vpr_info("query %d: \"%s\" mod:%s\n", i, query, modname ?: "*");
+ vpr_info("query %d: %s%s \"%s\"\n", i,
+ modname ? "module " : "", modname ?: "", query);
rc = ddebug_exec_query(query, modname);
if (rc < 0) {
@@ -1160,11 +1153,10 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
{
struct ddebug_table *dt;
- v3pr_info("add-module: %s.%d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
- if (!di->num_descs) {
- v3pr_info(" skip %s\n", modname);
+ if (!di->num_descs)
return 0;
- }
+
+ v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
dt = kzalloc_obj(*dt);
if (dt == NULL) {
--
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] The patch implementation directly contradicts the stated intent in the commit message regarding which log lines are dropped from the 3rd stanza.
--
commit 508361dc136fe2a26caa1e30ec9b645bd4c49e81
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg: reduce verbose/debug clutter
This patch aims to reduce excessive logging in dynamic debug, specifically
shrinking and dropping several verbose messages during query processing and
module addition.
> - shrinks 3 lines of 2nd stanza to single line
> - drops 1st 2 lines of 3rd stanza
> 3rd line is like 1st, with result, not procedure.
> 2nd line is just status, retold in 4th, with more info.
>
> New output:
>
> dyndbg: query 0: "class DRM_UT_CORE +p"
> dyndbg: split into words: "class" "DRM_UT_CORE" "+p"
> dyndbg: op='+' flags=0x1 maskp=0xffffffff
> dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 0 errs
[Severity: Medium]
Does this commit message accurately reflect the changes made in the code?
The commit message states the intent is to drop the first two lines of the 3rd
stanza (the "parsed" and "no matches" logs) while keeping the third line
("no-match"/"applied") since it shows the result rather than the procedure.
However, looking at the code changes below, the implementation drops the second
and third lines but appears to keep the first line (the "parsed" log printed
from ddebug_parse_query() right before ddebug_change() is called). This seems
to result in keeping the procedure log and dropping the result log, reversing
the stated intent.
Additionally, should the "New output" example in the commit message be updated
to include the "parsed" log line that is still printed?
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index 6d9dbeb68ae83..dfed3725aa44b 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> @@ -277,9 +277,6 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
> }
> mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
>
> - if (!nfound && verbose)
> - pr_info("no matches for query\n");
> -
> return nfound;
> }
[ ... ]
> @@ -570,10 +565,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_query(char *query_string, const char *modname)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> /* actually go and implement the change */
> - nfound = ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
> - vpr_info_dq(&query, nfound ? "applied" : "no-match");
> -
> - return nfound;
> + return ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
> }
>
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
Refactor callchain below param_set_dyndbg_classes(1) to allow mod-name
specific settings. Split (1) into upper/lower fns, adding modname
param to lower, and passing NULL in from upper. Below that, add the
same param to ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(), and pass it thru to
_ddebug_queries(), replacing NULL with the param.
This allows the callchain to update the classmap in just one module,
vs just all as currently done. While the sysfs param is unlikely to
ever update just one module, the callchain will be used for modprobe
handling, which should update only that just-probed module.
In ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(), also check for actual changes to the
bits before announcing them, to declutter logs.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: move RvB after SoB
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index dfed3725aa44..ce069459aafc 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -607,9 +607,10 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
return nfound;
}
-/* apply a new bitmap to the sys-knob's current bit-state */
+/* apply a new class-param setting */
static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
- unsigned long *new_bits, unsigned long *old_bits)
+ unsigned long *new_bits, unsigned long *old_bits,
+ const char *query_modname)
{
#define QUERY_SIZE 128
char query[QUERY_SIZE];
@@ -617,7 +618,9 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
int matches = 0;
int bi, ct;
- v2pr_info("apply: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx\n", *new_bits, *old_bits);
+ if (*new_bits != *old_bits)
+ v2pr_info("apply bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
+ *old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
for (bi = 0; bi < map->length; bi++) {
if (test_bit(bi, new_bits) == test_bit(bi, old_bits))
@@ -626,12 +629,16 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
snprintf(query, QUERY_SIZE, "class %s %c%s", map->class_names[bi],
test_bit(bi, new_bits) ? '+' : '-', dcp->flags);
- ct = ddebug_exec_queries(query, NULL);
+ ct = ddebug_exec_queries(query, query_modname);
matches += ct;
v2pr_info("bit_%d: %d matches on class: %s -> 0x%lx\n", bi,
ct, map->class_names[bi], *new_bits);
}
+ if (*new_bits != *old_bits)
+ v2pr_info("applied bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
+ *old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
+
return matches;
}
@@ -644,6 +651,7 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
* param_set_dyndbg_classes - class FOO >control
* @instr: string echo>d to sysfs, input depends on map_type
* @kp: kp->arg has state: bits/lvl, map, map_type
+ * @mod_name: module name or null for all modules with the classes
*
* Enable/disable prdbgs by their class, as given in the arguments to
* DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP. For LEVEL map-types, enforce relative
@@ -651,7 +659,9 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
*
* Returns: 0 or <0 if error.
*/
-int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
+static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
+ const struct kernel_param *kp,
+ const char *mod_name)
{
const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
@@ -674,8 +684,8 @@ int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
KP_NAME(kp), inrep, CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length));
inrep &= CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length);
}
- v2pr_info("bits:%lx > %s\n", inrep, KP_NAME(kp));
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, dcp->bits);
+ v2pr_info("bits:0x%lx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
+ totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, dcp->bits, mod_name);
*dcp->bits = inrep;
break;
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
@@ -688,7 +698,7 @@ int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
old_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(*dcp->lvl);
new_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(inrep);
v2pr_info("lvl:%ld bits:0x%lx > %s\n", inrep, new_bits, KP_NAME(kp));
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &new_bits, &old_bits);
+ totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &new_bits, &old_bits, mod_name);
*dcp->lvl = inrep;
break;
default:
@@ -698,16 +708,33 @@ int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
vpr_info("%s: total matches: %d\n", KP_NAME(kp), totct);
return 0;
}
+
+/**
+ * param_set_dyndbg_classes - classmap kparam setter
+ * @instr: string echo>d to sysfs, input depends on map_type
+ * @kp: kp->arg has state: bits/lvl, map, map_type
+ *
+ * enable/disable all class'd pr_debugs in the classmap. For LEVEL
+ * map-types, enforce * relative levels by bitpos.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or <0 if error.
+ */
+int param_set_dyndbg_classes(const char *instr, const struct kernel_param *kp)
+{
+ return param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(instr, kp, NULL);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_set_dyndbg_classes);
/**
- * param_get_dyndbg_classes - classes reader
+ * param_get_dyndbg_classes - classmap kparam getter
* @buffer: string description of controlled bits -> classes
* @kp: kp->arg has state: bits, map
*
- * Reads last written state, underlying prdbg state may have been
- * altered by direct >control. Displays 0x for DISJOINT, 0-N for
- * LEVEL Returns: #chars written or <0 on error
+ * Reads last written state, underlying pr_debug states may have been
+ * altered by direct >control. Displays 0x for DISJOINT classmap
+ * types, 0-N for LEVEL types.
+ *
+ * Returns: ct of chars written or <0 on error
*/
int param_get_dyndbg_classes(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
old_bits arg is currently a pointer to the input bits, but this could
allow inadvertent changes to the input by the fn. Disallow this.
And constify new_bits while here.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: move RvB after SoB
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index ce069459aafc..d4cce0f4f197 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -609,7 +609,8 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
/* apply a new class-param setting */
static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
- unsigned long *new_bits, unsigned long *old_bits,
+ const unsigned long *new_bits,
+ const unsigned long old_bits,
const char *query_modname)
{
#define QUERY_SIZE 128
@@ -618,12 +619,12 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
int matches = 0;
int bi, ct;
- if (*new_bits != *old_bits)
+ if (*new_bits != old_bits)
v2pr_info("apply bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
- *old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
+ old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
for (bi = 0; bi < map->length; bi++) {
- if (test_bit(bi, new_bits) == test_bit(bi, old_bits))
+ if (test_bit(bi, new_bits) == test_bit(bi, &old_bits))
continue;
snprintf(query, QUERY_SIZE, "class %s %c%s", map->class_names[bi],
@@ -635,9 +636,9 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
v2pr_info("bit_%d: %d matches on class: %s -> 0x%lx\n", bi,
ct, map->class_names[bi], *new_bits);
}
- if (*new_bits != *old_bits)
+ if (*new_bits != old_bits)
v2pr_info("applied bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
- *old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
+ old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
return matches;
}
@@ -685,7 +686,7 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
inrep &= CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length);
}
v2pr_info("bits:0x%lx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, dcp->bits, mod_name);
+ totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, *dcp->bits, mod_name);
*dcp->bits = inrep;
break;
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
@@ -698,7 +699,7 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
old_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(*dcp->lvl);
new_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(inrep);
v2pr_info("lvl:%ld bits:0x%lx > %s\n", inrep, new_bits, KP_NAME(kp));
- totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &new_bits, &old_bits, mod_name);
+ totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &new_bits, old_bits, mod_name);
*dcp->lvl = inrep;
break;
default:
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
Classmaps are stored in an elf section/array, but currently are
individually list-linked onto dyndbg's per-module ddebug_table for
operation. This is unnecessary.
Just like dyndbg's descriptors, classes are packed in compile order;
so even with many builtin modules employing multiple classmaps, each
modules' maps are packed contiguously, and can be treated as a
array-start-address & array-length.
So this drops the whole list building operation done in
ddebug_attach_module_classes(), and removes the list-head members of
the classmap structs. The "select-by-modname" condition is reused to
find the start,end of the subrange of classmaps belonging to the module.
NOTES:
There are multiple modules named "main" but thats an artifact of how
KBUILD_MODNAME gets its value, and none of those repeats are
contiguous. The legacy code segmenting the builtin descriptors
depends upon this, we are "reusing" that dependency.
The "filter-by-modname" on classmaps should really be done in
ddebug_add_module(1); ie closer to dynamic_debug_init(2), which
already splits up pr-debug descriptors into subranges by modname, then
calls (1) on each. (2) knows nothing of classmaps currently, and
doesn't need to.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: RvB after SoB
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 1 -
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index e724f6b93663..0a137a586510 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ enum ddebug_class_map_type {
};
struct ddebug_class_map {
- struct list_head link;
struct module *mod;
const char *mod_name; /* needed for builtins */
const char **class_names;
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index d4cce0f4f197..7f03b331d185 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ extern struct ddebug_class_map __start___dyndbg_classes[];
extern struct ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_classes[];
struct ddebug_table {
- struct list_head link, maps;
+ struct list_head link;
const char *mod_name;
- unsigned int num_ddebugs;
struct _ddebug *ddebugs;
+ struct ddebug_class_map *classes;
+ unsigned int num_ddebugs, num_classes;
};
struct ddebug_query {
@@ -150,12 +151,13 @@ static void vpr_info_dq(const struct ddebug_query *query, const char *msg)
}
static struct ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table const *dt,
- const char *class_string, int *class_id)
+ const char *class_string,
+ int *class_id)
{
struct ddebug_class_map *map;
- int idx;
+ int i, idx;
- list_for_each_entry(map, &dt->maps, link) {
+ for (map = dt->classes, i = 0; i < dt->num_classes; i++, map++) {
idx = match_string(map->class_names, map->length, class_string);
if (idx >= 0) {
*class_id = idx + map->base;
@@ -166,7 +168,6 @@ static struct ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table cons
return NULL;
}
-#define __outvar /* filled by callee */
/*
* Search the tables for _ddebug's which match the given `query' and
* apply the `flags' and `mask' to them. Returns number of matching
@@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
unsigned int nfound = 0;
struct flagsbuf fbuf, nbuf;
struct ddebug_class_map *map = NULL;
- int __outvar valid_class;
+ int valid_class;
/* search for matching ddebugs */
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
@@ -1061,9 +1062,10 @@ static void *ddebug_proc_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
static const char *ddebug_class_name(struct ddebug_iter *iter, struct _ddebug *dp)
{
- struct ddebug_class_map *map;
+ struct ddebug_class_map *map = iter->table->classes;
+ int i, nc = iter->table->num_classes;
- list_for_each_entry(map, &iter->table->maps, link)
+ for (i = 0; i < nc; i++, map++)
if (class_in_range(dp->class_id, map))
return map->class_names[dp->class_id - map->base];
@@ -1147,30 +1149,34 @@ static const struct proc_ops proc_fops = {
.proc_write = ddebug_proc_write
};
-static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt,
- struct ddebug_class_map *classes,
- int num_classes)
+static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug_info *di)
{
struct ddebug_class_map *cm;
- int i, j, ct = 0;
+ int i, nc = 0;
- for (cm = classes, i = 0; i < num_classes; i++, cm++) {
+ /*
+ * Find this module's classmaps in a subrange/wholerange of
+ * the builtin/modular classmap vector/section. Save the start
+ * and length of the subrange at its edges.
+ */
+ for (cm = di->classes, i = 0; i < di->num_classes; i++, cm++) {
if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->mod_name)) {
-
- v2pr_info("class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n", i,
- cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
-
- for (j = 0; j < cm->length; j++)
- v3pr_info(" %d: %d %s\n", j + cm->base, j,
- cm->class_names[j]);
-
- list_add(&cm->link, &dt->maps);
- ct++;
+ if (!nc) {
+ v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
+ i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
+ dt->classes = cm;
+ }
+ nc++;
+ } else if (nc) {
+ /* end of matching classmaps */
+ break;
}
}
- if (ct)
- vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->mod_name, ct);
+ if (nc) {
+ dt->num_classes = nc;
+ vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->mod_name, nc);
+ }
}
/*
@@ -1202,10 +1208,9 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
dt->num_ddebugs = di->num_descs;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->link);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->maps);
if (di->classes && di->num_classes)
- ddebug_attach_module_classes(dt, di->classes, di->num_classes);
+ ddebug_attach_module_classes(dt, di);
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
list_add_tail(&dt->link, &ddebug_tables);
@@ -1318,8 +1323,8 @@ static void ddebug_remove_all_tables(void)
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
while (!list_empty(&ddebug_tables)) {
struct ddebug_table *dt = list_entry(ddebug_tables.next,
- struct ddebug_table,
- link);
+ struct ddebug_table,
+ link);
ddebug_table_free(dt);
}
mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
--
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] ddebug_attach_module_classes() assumes all classmaps for a given module are perfectly contiguous, prematurely breaking the loop and causing disjoint classmaps for built-in modules with duplicate names (e.g., "main") to be ignored and incorrectly shared.
--
commit 0adb4bd721cea60d2371ac3aa8cc0fb11eab6469
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg: replace classmap list with an array-slice
This commit replaces the linked list used to manage classmaps with an
array slice representation. It modifies ddebug_attach_module_classes()
to find a contiguous subrange of classmaps for a module and stores its
start and length, removing the list_head from struct ddebug_class_map.
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index d4cce0f4f197d..7f03b331d185b 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -1147,30 +1149,34 @@ static const struct proc_ops proc_fops = {
> .proc_write = ddebug_proc_write
> };
>
> -static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt,
> - struct ddebug_class_map *classes,
> - int num_classes)
> +static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug_info *di)
> {
> struct ddebug_class_map *cm;
> - int i, j, ct = 0;
> + int i, nc = 0;
>
> - for (cm = classes, i = 0; i < num_classes; i++, cm++) {
> + /*
> + * Find this module's classmaps in a subrange/wholerange of
> + * the builtin/modular classmap vector/section. Save the start
> + * and length of the subrange at its edges.
> + */
> + for (cm = di->classes, i = 0; i < di->num_classes; i++, cm++) {
>
> if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->mod_name)) {
> -
> - v2pr_info("class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n", i,
> - cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
> -
> - for (j = 0; j < cm->length; j++)
> - v3pr_info(" %d: %d %s\n", j + cm->base, j,
> - cm->class_names[j]);
> -
> - list_add(&cm->link, &dt->maps);
> - ct++;
> + if (!nc) {
> + v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
> + i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
> + dt->classes = cm;
> + }
> + nc++;
> + } else if (nc) {
> + /* end of matching classmaps */
> + break;
[Severity: High]
Does this logic correctly handle disjoint classmaps for built-in modules
with duplicate names (such as "main")?
Since di->classes is initialized to __start___dyndbg_classes in
dynamic_debug_init() and is never advanced, ddebug_add_module() processes
the classmaps array from the beginning each time.
Because built-in modules with duplicate names are not contiguous in memory,
dynamic_debug_init() creates multiple ddebug_table structures for them.
When the second "main" chunk is processed, wouldn't this search from the
beginning, find the first module's classmaps, and then prematurely exit
the loop here when it reaches the end of that first contiguous block?
Could this cause the second module's actual classmaps to be permanently
ignored, resulting in subsequent duplicate module names incorrectly
using the wrong classmaps for resolution and control?
> }
> }
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
dynamic-debug currently has 2 __sections (__dyndbg, __dyndb_classes),
struct _ddebug_info keeps track of them both, with 2 members each:
_vec and _vec#_len.
We need to loop over these sections, with index and record pointer,
making ref to both _vec and _vec_len. This is already fiddly and
error-prone, and will get worse as we add a 3rd section.
Lets instead embed/abstract the fiddly-ness in the `for_subvec()`
macro, and avoid repeating it going forward.
This is a for-loop macro expander, so it syntactically expects to
precede either a single statement or a { block } of them, and the
usual typeof or do-while-0 tricks are unavailable to fix the
multiple-expansion warning.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: move RvB after SoB
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 7f03b331d185..e9481ef21825 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -130,6 +130,20 @@ do { \
#define v3pr_info(fmt, ...) vnpr_info(3, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define v4pr_info(fmt, ...) vnpr_info(4, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+/*
+ * simplify a repeated for-loop pattern walking N steps in a T _vec
+ * member inside a struct _box. It expects int i and T *_sp to be
+ * declared in the caller.
+ * @_i: caller provided counter.
+ * @_sp: cursor into _vec, to examine each item.
+ * @_box: ptr to a struct containing @_vec member
+ * @_vec: name of a member in @_box
+ */
+#define for_subvec(_i, _sp, _box, _vec) \
+ for ((_i) = 0, (_sp) = (_box)->_vec; \
+ (_i) < (_box)->num_##_vec; \
+ (_i)++, (_sp)++) /* { block } */
+
static void vpr_info_dq(const struct ddebug_query *query, const char *msg)
{
/* trim any trailing newlines */
@@ -157,7 +171,7 @@ static struct ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table cons
struct ddebug_class_map *map;
int i, idx;
- for (map = dt->classes, i = 0; i < dt->num_classes; i++, map++) {
+ for_subvec(i, map, dt, classes) {
idx = match_string(map->class_names, map->length, class_string);
if (idx >= 0) {
*class_id = idx + map->base;
@@ -1159,8 +1173,7 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
* the builtin/modular classmap vector/section. Save the start
* and length of the subrange at its edges.
*/
- for (cm = di->classes, i = 0; i < di->num_classes; i++, cm++) {
-
+ for_subvec(i, cm, di, classes) {
if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->mod_name)) {
if (!nc) {
v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
Currently, `struct ddebug_class_param` uses `unsigned long` pointers
to store the state of `bits` and `lvl`. On 32-bit architectures, this
limits the bit-vector to 32 bits, which truncates 64-bit classmaps
(such as the one needed by `__drm_debug`).
To guarantee support for 64-bit debug categories across all
architectures, upgrade the internal storage types in `struct
_ddebug_class_param` to `u64`. This inherently makes both union
members the same size while safely avoiding truncation.
This includes:
- Changing union members `bits` and `lvl` to `u64 *`.
- Using `kstrtou64()` for sysfs input parsing.
- Replacing array-based `test_bit()` operations with safe `u64` scalar
bitwise logic (`!!(val & (1ULL << bi))`).
- adjusting lib/test_dynamic_debug.c too
Not yet done:
- Updating `drm_print`'s `__drm_debug` to `u64` and configuring the
associated module parameter as `ullong`.
- Fixing an unused variable warning in `__drm_printfn_dbg`.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
v2:
patch was "make bits & lvl same size"
but that size was unsigned long, only 32 bits on i386 etc
use u64 for all bits, and %llu %llx
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 4 ++--
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
lib/test_dynamic_debug.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index 0a137a586510..a84dcc127e5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ struct _ddebug_info {
struct ddebug_class_param {
union {
- unsigned long *bits;
- unsigned int *lvl;
+ u64 *bits;
+ u64 *lvl;
};
char flags[8];
const struct ddebug_class_map *map;
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index e9481ef21825..580aa258f902 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -624,8 +624,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
/* apply a new class-param setting */
static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
- const unsigned long *new_bits,
- const unsigned long old_bits,
+ const u64 *new_bits, const u64 old_bits,
const char *query_modname)
{
#define QUERY_SIZE 128
@@ -635,24 +634,27 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
int bi, ct;
if (*new_bits != old_bits)
- v2pr_info("apply bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
+ v2pr_info("apply bitmap: 0x%llx to: 0x%llx for %s\n", *new_bits,
old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
for (bi = 0; bi < map->length; bi++) {
- if (test_bit(bi, new_bits) == test_bit(bi, &old_bits))
+ bool new_b = !!(*new_bits & (1ULL << bi));
+ bool old_b = !!(old_bits & (1ULL << bi));
+
+ if (new_b == old_b)
continue;
snprintf(query, QUERY_SIZE, "class %s %c%s", map->class_names[bi],
- test_bit(bi, new_bits) ? '+' : '-', dcp->flags);
+ new_b ? '+' : '-', dcp->flags);
ct = ddebug_exec_queries(query, query_modname);
matches += ct;
- v2pr_info("bit_%d: %d matches on class: %s -> 0x%lx\n", bi,
+ v2pr_info("bit_%d: %d matches on class: %s -> 0x%llx\n", bi,
ct, map->class_names[bi], *new_bits);
}
if (*new_bits != old_bits)
- v2pr_info("applied bitmap: 0x%lx to: 0x%lx for %s\n", *new_bits,
+ v2pr_info("applied bitmap: 0x%llx to: 0x%llx for %s\n", *new_bits,
old_bits, query_modname ?: "'*'");
return matches;
@@ -661,7 +663,7 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
/* stub to later conditionally add "$module." prefix where not already done */
#define KP_NAME(kp) kp->name
-#define CLASSMAP_BITMASK(width) ((1UL << (width)) - 1)
+#define CLASSMAP_BITMASK(width) ((1ULL << (width)) - 1)
/**
* param_set_dyndbg_classes - class FOO >control
@@ -681,10 +683,10 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
{
const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
- unsigned long inrep, new_bits, old_bits;
+ u64 inrep, new_bits, old_bits;
int rc, totct = 0;
- rc = kstrtoul(instr, 0, &inrep);
+ rc = kstrtou64(instr, 0, &inrep);
if (rc) {
int len = strcspn(instr, "\n");
pr_err("expecting numeric input, not: %.*s > %s\n",
@@ -696,24 +698,24 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
/* expect bits. mask and warn if too many */
if (inrep & ~CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length)) {
- pr_warn("%s: input: 0x%lx exceeds mask: 0x%lx, masking\n",
+ pr_warn("%s: input: 0x%llx exceeds mask: 0x%llx, masking\n",
KP_NAME(kp), inrep, CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length));
inrep &= CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length);
}
- v2pr_info("bits:0x%lx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
+ v2pr_info("bits:0x%llx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, *dcp->bits, mod_name);
*dcp->bits = inrep;
break;
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
/* input is bitpos, of highest verbosity to be enabled */
if (inrep > map->length) {
- pr_warn("%s: level:%ld exceeds max:%d, clamping\n",
+ pr_warn("%s: level:%llu exceeds max:%d, clamping\n",
KP_NAME(kp), inrep, map->length);
inrep = map->length;
}
old_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(*dcp->lvl);
new_bits = CLASSMAP_BITMASK(inrep);
- v2pr_info("lvl:%ld bits:0x%lx > %s\n", inrep, new_bits, KP_NAME(kp));
+ v2pr_info("lvl:%llu bits:0x%llx > %s\n", inrep, new_bits, KP_NAME(kp));
totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &new_bits, old_bits, mod_name);
*dcp->lvl = inrep;
break;
@@ -759,9 +761,9 @@ int param_get_dyndbg_classes(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
switch (map->map_type) {
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
- return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%lx\n", *dcp->bits);
+ return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%llx\n", *dcp->bits);
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_LEVEL_NUM:
- return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", *dcp->lvl);
+ return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%llu\n", *dcp->lvl);
default:
return -1;
}
diff --git a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
index 74d183ebf3e0..c049580d2152 100644
--- a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ module_param_cb(do_prints, ¶m_ops_do_prints, NULL, 0600);
* - tie together sysname, mapname, bitsname, flagsname
*/
#define DD_SYS_WRAP(_model, _flags) \
- static unsigned long bits_##_model; \
+ static u64 bits_##_model; \
static struct ddebug_class_param _flags##_model = { \
.bits = &bits_##_model, \
.flags = #_flags, \
--
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
New issues:
- [High] Buffer Overflow / Memory Corruption due to mismatched types in `ddebug_class_param`.
Pre-existing issues:
- [High] Undefined Behavior in `CLASSMAP_BITMASK` triggers shift overflow for 64-bit classmaps.
--
commit 58d2c659362026860249b9d71580382d0d84aa4e
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg: Upgrade class param storage to u64 for 64-bit classmaps
This commit upgrades the internal storage types in struct
ddebug_class_param from unsigned long to u64 pointers. This change
aims to safely support 64-bit classmaps across all architectures
without truncation.
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index e9481ef21825d..580aa258f902f 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> @@ -661,7 +663,7 @@ static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
> /* stub to later conditionally add "$module." prefix where not already done */
> #define KP_NAME(kp) kp->name
>
> -#define CLASSMAP_BITMASK(width) ((1UL << (width)) - 1)
> +#define CLASSMAP_BITMASK(width) ((1ULL << (width)) - 1)
[Severity: High]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does this macro invoke
undefined behavior if the classmap width reaches 64 bits?
If width is 64, shifting 1ULL by 64 is undefined behavior in C. On some
architectures like x86, the shift count is masked by 63, causing 1ULL << 64
to evaluate to 1ULL << 0 (which is 1). This would result in a bitmask of 0,
wiping out valid input bits and breaking the 64-bit feature.
[ ... ]
> @@ -696,24 +698,24 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
> case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
> /* expect bits. mask and warn if too many */
> if (inrep & ~CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length)) {
> - pr_warn("%s: input: 0x%lx exceeds mask: 0x%lx, masking\n",
> + pr_warn("%s: input: 0x%llx exceeds mask: 0x%llx, masking\n",
> KP_NAME(kp), inrep, CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length));
> inrep &= CLASSMAP_BITMASK(map->length);
> }
> - v2pr_info("bits:0x%lx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
> + v2pr_info("bits:0x%llx > %s.%s\n", inrep, mod_name ?: "*", KP_NAME(kp));
> totct += ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(dcp, &inrep, *dcp->bits, mod_name);
> *dcp->bits = inrep;
[Severity: High]
Can this cause memory corruption on 32-bit architectures?
The commit message notes that __drm_debug is not yet updated to u64,
meaning it remains an unsigned long. On 32-bit systems, unsigned long is 4
bytes. Since dcp->bits is now a u64 pointer, won't assigning inrep perform
an 8-byte write into a 4-byte allocation, corrupting adjacent memory?
--
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
recompose struct _ddebug_info, inserting proper sub-structs.
The struct _ddebug_info has 2 pairs of _vec, num_##_vec fields, for
descs and classes respectively. for_subvec() makes walking these
vectors less cumbersome, now lets move those field pairs into their
own "vec" structs: _ddebug_descs & _ddebug_class_maps, and re-compose
struct _ddebug_info to contain them cleanly. This also lets us get
rid of for_subvec()'s num_##_vec paste-up.
Also recompose struct ddebug_table to contain a _ddebug_info. This
reinforces its use as a cursor into relevant data for a builtin
module, and access to the full _ddebug state for modules.
NOTES:
Fixup names: Normalize all struct names to "struct _ddebug_*"
eliminating the minor/stupid variations created in classmaps-v1.
Invariant: These vectors ref a contiguous subrange of __section memory
in builtin/DATA or in loadable modules via mod->dyndbg_info; with
guaranteed life-time for us.
struct module contains a _ddebug_info field and module/main.c sets it
up, so that gets adjusted rather obviously.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
Move RvB after SoB
In structs _ddebug_descs & _ddebug_class_maps, change int length to unsigned int
No use of <0 vals is contemplated.
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 36 ++++++++++-----
kernel/module/main.c | 12 ++---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
lib/test_dynamic_debug.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index a84dcc127e5a..001bc84eadca 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ enum ddebug_class_map_type {
*/
};
-struct ddebug_class_map {
- struct module *mod;
+struct _ddebug_class_map {
+ struct module *mod; /* NULL for builtins */
const char *mod_name; /* needed for builtins */
const char **class_names;
const int length;
@@ -81,21 +81,33 @@ struct ddebug_class_map {
enum ddebug_class_map_type map_type;
};
-/* encapsulate linker provided built-in (or module) dyndbg data */
+/*
+ * @_ddebug_info: gathers module/builtin dyndbg_* __sections together.
+ * For builtins, it is used as a cursor, with the inner structs
+ * marking sub-vectors of the builtin __sections in DATA.
+ */
+struct _ddebug_descs {
+ struct _ddebug *start;
+ unsigned int len;
+};
+
+struct _ddebug_class_maps {
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *start;
+ unsigned int len;
+};
+
struct _ddebug_info {
- struct _ddebug *descs;
- struct ddebug_class_map *classes;
- unsigned int num_descs;
- unsigned int num_classes;
+ struct _ddebug_descs descs;
+ struct _ddebug_class_maps maps;
};
-struct ddebug_class_param {
+struct _ddebug_class_param {
union {
u64 *bits;
u64 *lvl;
};
char flags[8];
- const struct ddebug_class_map *map;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
};
/*
@@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ struct ddebug_class_param {
*/
#define DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(_var, _maptype, _base, ...) \
static const char *_var##_classnames[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }; \
- static struct ddebug_class_map __aligned(8) __used \
+ static struct _ddebug_class_map __aligned(8) __used \
__section("__dyndbg_classes") _var = { \
.mod = THIS_MODULE, \
.mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
@@ -242,7 +254,7 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
* macro.
*/
#define _dynamic_func_call_cls(cls, fmt, func, ...) \
- __dynamic_func_call_cls(__UNIQUE_ID(ddebug), cls, fmt, func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+ __dynamic_func_call_cls(__UNIQUE_ID(_ddebug), cls, fmt, func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define _dynamic_func_call(fmt, func, ...) \
_dynamic_func_call_cls(_DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT, fmt, func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
@@ -252,7 +264,7 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
* with precisely the macro's varargs.
*/
#define _dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(cls, fmt, func, ...) \
- __dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(__UNIQUE_ID(ddebug), cls, fmt, \
+ __dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(__UNIQUE_ID(_ddebug), cls, fmt, \
func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define _dynamic_func_call_no_desc(fmt, func, ...) \
_dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(_DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT, fmt, \
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index 46dd8d25a605..c2b6e70f2e77 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -2774,12 +2774,12 @@ static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
pr_warn("%s: Ignoring obsolete parameters\n", mod->name);
#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
- mod->dyndbg_info.descs = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg",
- sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.descs),
- &mod->dyndbg_info.num_descs);
- mod->dyndbg_info.classes = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_classes",
- sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.classes),
- &mod->dyndbg_info.num_classes);
+ mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_descriptors",
+ sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start),
+ &mod->dyndbg_info.descs.len);
+ mod->dyndbg_info.maps.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_class_maps",
+ sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.maps.start),
+ &mod->dyndbg_info.maps.len);
#endif
return 0;
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 580aa258f902..169b94ff6f8e 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -42,15 +42,13 @@
extern struct _ddebug __start___dyndbg[];
extern struct _ddebug __stop___dyndbg[];
-extern struct ddebug_class_map __start___dyndbg_classes[];
-extern struct ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_classes[];
+extern struct _ddebug_class_map __start___dyndbg_classes[];
+extern struct _ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_classes[];
struct ddebug_table {
struct list_head link;
const char *mod_name;
- struct _ddebug *ddebugs;
- struct ddebug_class_map *classes;
- unsigned int num_ddebugs, num_classes;
+ struct _ddebug_info info;
};
struct ddebug_query {
@@ -137,11 +135,11 @@ do { \
* @_i: caller provided counter.
* @_sp: cursor into _vec, to examine each item.
* @_box: ptr to a struct containing @_vec member
- * @_vec: name of a member in @_box
+ * @_vec: name of a vector member in @_box
*/
#define for_subvec(_i, _sp, _box, _vec) \
- for ((_i) = 0, (_sp) = (_box)->_vec; \
- (_i) < (_box)->num_##_vec; \
+ for ((_i) = 0, (_sp) = (_box)->_vec.start; \
+ (_i) < (_box)->_vec.len; \
(_i)++, (_sp)++) /* { block } */
static void vpr_info_dq(const struct ddebug_query *query, const char *msg)
@@ -164,14 +162,14 @@ static void vpr_info_dq(const struct ddebug_query *query, const char *msg)
query->first_lineno, query->last_lineno, query->class_string);
}
-static struct ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table const *dt,
+static struct _ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table const *dt,
const char *class_string,
int *class_id)
{
- struct ddebug_class_map *map;
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
int i, idx;
- for_subvec(i, map, dt, classes) {
+ for_subvec(i, map, &dt->info, maps) {
idx = match_string(map->class_names, map->length, class_string);
if (idx >= 0) {
*class_id = idx + map->base;
@@ -242,7 +240,7 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
unsigned int newflags;
unsigned int nfound = 0;
struct flagsbuf fbuf, nbuf;
- struct ddebug_class_map *map = NULL;
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *map = NULL;
int valid_class;
/* search for matching ddebugs */
@@ -263,8 +261,8 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
valid_class = _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT;
}
- for (i = 0; i < dt->num_ddebugs; i++) {
- struct _ddebug *dp = &dt->ddebugs[i];
+ for (i = 0; i < dt->info.descs.len; i++) {
+ struct _ddebug *dp = &dt->info.descs.start[i];
if (!ddebug_match_desc(query, dp, valid_class))
continue;
@@ -623,13 +621,13 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
}
/* apply a new class-param setting */
-static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp,
+static int ddebug_apply_class_bitmap(const struct _ddebug_class_param *dcp,
const u64 *new_bits, const u64 old_bits,
const char *query_modname)
{
#define QUERY_SIZE 128
char query[QUERY_SIZE];
- const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
int matches = 0;
int bi, ct;
@@ -681,8 +679,8 @@ static int param_set_dyndbg_module_classes(const char *instr,
const struct kernel_param *kp,
const char *mod_name)
{
- const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
- const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
u64 inrep, new_bits, old_bits;
int rc, totct = 0;
@@ -756,8 +754,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_set_dyndbg_classes);
*/
int param_get_dyndbg_classes(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
- const struct ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
- const struct ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_param *dcp = kp->arg;
+ const struct _ddebug_class_map *map = dcp->map;
switch (map->map_type) {
case DD_CLASS_TYPE_DISJOINT_BITS:
@@ -1004,8 +1002,8 @@ static struct _ddebug *ddebug_iter_first(struct ddebug_iter *iter)
}
iter->table = list_entry(ddebug_tables.next,
struct ddebug_table, link);
- iter->idx = iter->table->num_ddebugs;
- return &iter->table->ddebugs[--iter->idx];
+ iter->idx = iter->table->info.descs.len;
+ return &iter->table->info.descs.start[--iter->idx];
}
/*
@@ -1026,10 +1024,10 @@ static struct _ddebug *ddebug_iter_next(struct ddebug_iter *iter)
}
iter->table = list_entry(iter->table->link.next,
struct ddebug_table, link);
- iter->idx = iter->table->num_ddebugs;
+ iter->idx = iter->table->info.descs.len;
--iter->idx;
}
- return &iter->table->ddebugs[iter->idx];
+ return &iter->table->info.descs.start[iter->idx];
}
/*
@@ -1073,16 +1071,19 @@ static void *ddebug_proc_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
return dp;
}
-#define class_in_range(class_id, map) \
- (class_id >= map->base && class_id < map->base + map->length)
+static bool ddebug_class_in_range(const int class_id, const struct _ddebug_class_map *map)
+{
+ return (class_id >= map->base &&
+ class_id < map->base + map->length);
+}
-static const char *ddebug_class_name(struct ddebug_iter *iter, struct _ddebug *dp)
+static const char *ddebug_class_name(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug *dp)
{
- struct ddebug_class_map *map = iter->table->classes;
- int i, nc = iter->table->num_classes;
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
+ int i;
- for (i = 0; i < nc; i++, map++)
- if (class_in_range(dp->class_id, map))
+ for_subvec(i, map, &dt->info, maps)
+ if (ddebug_class_in_range(dp->class_id, map))
return map->class_names[dp->class_id - map->base];
return NULL;
@@ -1115,7 +1116,7 @@ static int ddebug_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
seq_putc(m, '"');
if (dp->class_id != _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT) {
- class = ddebug_class_name(iter, dp);
+ class = ddebug_class_name(iter->table, dp);
if (class)
seq_printf(m, " class:%s", class);
else
@@ -1167,7 +1168,7 @@ static const struct proc_ops proc_fops = {
static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug_info *di)
{
- struct ddebug_class_map *cm;
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *cm;
int i, nc = 0;
/*
@@ -1175,12 +1176,12 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
* the builtin/modular classmap vector/section. Save the start
* and length of the subrange at its edges.
*/
- for_subvec(i, cm, di, classes) {
+ for_subvec(i, cm, di, maps) {
if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->mod_name)) {
if (!nc) {
v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
- dt->classes = cm;
+ dt->info.maps.start = cm;
}
nc++;
} else if (nc) {
@@ -1189,7 +1190,7 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
}
}
if (nc) {
- dt->num_classes = nc;
+ dt->info.maps.len = nc;
vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->mod_name, nc);
}
}
@@ -1202,10 +1203,10 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
{
struct ddebug_table *dt;
- if (!di->num_descs)
+ if (!di->descs.len)
return 0;
- v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
+ v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->descs.len);
dt = kzalloc_obj(*dt);
if (dt == NULL) {
@@ -1219,19 +1220,18 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
* this struct ddebug_table.
*/
dt->mod_name = modname;
- dt->ddebugs = di->descs;
- dt->num_ddebugs = di->num_descs;
+ dt->info = *di;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->link);
- if (di->classes && di->num_classes)
+ if (di->maps.len)
ddebug_attach_module_classes(dt, di);
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
list_add_tail(&dt->link, &ddebug_tables);
mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
- vpr_info("%3u debug prints in module %s\n", di->num_descs, modname);
+ vpr_info("%3u debug prints in module %s\n", di->descs.len, modname);
return 0;
}
@@ -1378,10 +1378,10 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
char *cmdline;
struct _ddebug_info di = {
- .descs = __start___dyndbg,
- .classes = __start___dyndbg_classes,
- .num_descs = __stop___dyndbg - __start___dyndbg,
- .num_classes = __stop___dyndbg_classes - __start___dyndbg_classes,
+ .descs.start = __start___dyndbg,
+ .maps.start = __start___dyndbg_classes,
+ .descs.len = __stop___dyndbg - __start___dyndbg,
+ .maps.len = __stop___dyndbg_classes - __start___dyndbg_classes,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
@@ -1410,8 +1410,8 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
if (strcmp(modname, iter->modname)) {
mod_ct++;
- di.num_descs = mod_sites;
- di.descs = iter_mod_start;
+ di.descs.len = mod_sites;
+ di.descs.start = iter_mod_start;
ret = ddebug_add_module(&di, modname);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
@@ -1421,8 +1421,8 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
iter_mod_start = iter;
}
}
- di.num_descs = mod_sites;
- di.descs = iter_mod_start;
+ di.descs.len = mod_sites;
+ di.descs.start = iter_mod_start;
ret = ddebug_add_module(&di, modname);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
@@ -1432,8 +1432,8 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
i, mod_ct, (int)((mod_ct * sizeof(struct ddebug_table)) >> 10),
(int)((i * sizeof(struct _ddebug)) >> 10));
- if (di.num_classes)
- v2pr_info(" %d builtin ddebug class-maps\n", di.num_classes);
+ if (di.maps.len)
+ v2pr_info(" %d builtin ddebug class-maps\n", di.maps.len);
/* now that ddebug tables are loaded, process all boot args
* again to find and activate queries given in dyndbg params.
diff --git a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
index c049580d2152..e6b2422ca671 100644
--- a/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ module_param_cb(do_prints, ¶m_ops_do_prints, NULL, 0600);
*/
#define DD_SYS_WRAP(_model, _flags) \
static u64 bits_##_model; \
- static struct ddebug_class_param _flags##_model = { \
+ static struct _ddebug_class_param _flags##_model = { \
.bits = &bits_##_model, \
.flags = #_flags, \
.map = &map_##_model, \
--
2.54.0
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@ 2026-05-23 7:45 ` sashiko-bot
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 3 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] Module loader searches for incorrectly named dynamic debug sections, completely disabling dynamic debug for all loadable modules.
- [High] Built-in modules without class maps erroneously inherit all global system-wide class maps due to missing state reset.
- [Low] Renaming `struct ddebug_class_param` breaks compilation of external users like the DRM subsystem.
--
commit 647ef6a50774bbbe7f638336c42ae9d912b4ca12
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
This commit recomposes struct _ddebug_info by moving the descriptors and class
maps fields into new sub-structures struct _ddebug_descs and struct
_ddebug_class_maps. It also normalizes all related struct names to use a
_ddebug_ prefix.
> diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> index a84dcc127e5a7..001bc84eadcab 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
[ ... ]
> @@ -81,21 +81,33 @@ struct ddebug_class_map {
> enum ddebug_class_map_type map_type;
> };
>
> -/* encapsulate linker provided built-in (or module) dyndbg data */
> +/*
> + * @_ddebug_info: gathers module/builtin dyndbg_* __sections together.
> + * For builtins, it is used as a cursor, with the inner structs
> + * marking sub-vectors of the builtin __sections in DATA.
> + */
> +struct _ddebug_descs {
> + struct _ddebug *start;
> + unsigned int len;
> +};
> +
> +struct _ddebug_class_maps {
> + struct _ddebug_class_map *start;
> + unsigned int len;
> +};
> +
> struct _ddebug_info {
> - struct _ddebug *descs;
> - struct ddebug_class_map *classes;
> - unsigned int num_descs;
> - unsigned int num_classes;
> + struct _ddebug_descs descs;
> + struct _ddebug_class_maps maps;
> };
>
> -struct ddebug_class_param {
> +struct _ddebug_class_param {
[Severity: Low]
Does renaming this structure break compilation for external users?
For example, the DRM subsystem directly references the old structure name in
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_print.c:
"static struct ddebug_class_param drm_debug_bitmap"
Failing to update these external users will result in a build failure for
configurations enabling DRM.
> union {
> u64 *bits;
> u64 *lvl;
> };
> char flags[8];
> - const struct ddebug_class_map *map;
> + const struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
> };
>
> /*
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
> index 46dd8d25a6058..c2b6e70f2e773 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/main.c
> +++ b/kernel/module/main.c
> @@ -2774,12 +2774,12 @@ static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
> pr_warn("%s: Ignoring obsolete parameters\n", mod->name);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
> - mod->dyndbg_info.descs = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg",
> - sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.descs),
> - &mod->dyndbg_info.num_descs);
> - mod->dyndbg_info.classes = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_classes",
> - sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.classes),
> - &mod->dyndbg_info.num_classes);
> + mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_descriptors",
> + sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start),
> + &mod->dyndbg_info.descs.len);
> + mod->dyndbg_info.maps.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_class_maps",
> + sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.maps.start),
> + &mod->dyndbg_info.maps.len);
[Severity: High]
Does this correctly match the section names emitted by the linker?
It looks like the section names here were updated to "__dyndbg_descriptors"
and "__dyndbg_class_maps", but the macros like DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP and
DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA still emit to "__dyndbg" and "__dyndbg_classes".
Because the strings do not match, section_objs() will fail to find the
sections, setting their lengths to 0 and effectively discarding all
dynamic debug prints for loadable modules.
I see this regression is fixed later in the series by commit f9409a020a4bc
("dyndbg: improve section names").
> #endif
>
> return 0;
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index 580aa258f902f..169b94ff6f8ed 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -1202,10 +1203,10 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
> {
> struct ddebug_table *dt;
>
> - if (!di->num_descs)
> + if (!di->descs.len)
> return 0;
>
> - v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
> + v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->descs.len);
>
> dt = kzalloc_obj(*dt);
> if (dt == NULL) {
> @@ -1219,19 +1220,18 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
> * this struct ddebug_table.
> */
> dt->mod_name = modname;
> - dt->ddebugs = di->descs;
> - dt->num_ddebugs = di->num_descs;
> + dt->info = *di;
[Severity: High]
Does this code leave dt->info.maps initialized to the entire system-wide
class maps array if the built-in module has no class maps?
In dynamic_debug_init(), the global _ddebug_info di is initialized with
.maps spanning the entire __dyndbg_classes section.
When this is copied via dt->info = *di here, dt->info.maps also spans
the entire section.
If the module has no class maps, ddebug_attach_module_classes() will run, but
the local variable nc remains 0. The block if (nc) at the end is skipped,
and dt->info.maps is never updated to reflect 0 length.
As a result, built-in modules without class maps falsely match unrelated
class maps from other built-in modules.
I see this regression is fixed later in the series by commit 6fc0ea29f4f01
("dyndbg: hoist classmap-filter-by-modname up to ddebug_add_module").
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->link);
>
> - if (di->classes && di->num_classes)
> + if (di->maps.len)
> ddebug_attach_module_classes(dt, di);
>
> mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
--
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* [PATCH v2 20/24] dyndbg: move mod_name down from struct ddebug_table to _ddebug_info
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2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] dyndbg: hoist classmap-filter-by-modname up to ddebug_add_module Jim Cromie
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
struct _ddebug_info already has most of dyndbg's info for a module;
push debug_table.mod_name down into it, finishing the encapsulation.
This allows refactoring several callchains, passing &_ddebug_info
instead of &ddebug_table, and hoisting the "&dt->info" deref up
instead of repeating it thru the callchans
ddebug_table contains a _ddebug_info member, so its users keep access
to mod_name, just now with "->info." added in.
In static ddebug_add_module(&di), reinforce the cursor-model by
dropping the modname arg, and setting di->mod_name at each caller.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2: move RvB after SoB
old-v12
. moved up 1 position in series, ahead of hoist...
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 1 +
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index 001bc84eadca..11ec40f488f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ struct _ddebug_class_maps {
};
struct _ddebug_info {
+ const char *mod_name;
struct _ddebug_descs descs;
struct _ddebug_class_maps maps;
};
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 169b94ff6f8e..4a9b9bc9efc5 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ extern struct _ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_classes[];
struct ddebug_table {
struct list_head link;
- const char *mod_name;
struct _ddebug_info info;
};
@@ -246,10 +245,11 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
/* search for matching ddebugs */
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
list_for_each_entry(dt, &ddebug_tables, link) {
+ struct _ddebug_info *di = &dt->info;
/* match against the module name */
if (query->module &&
- !match_wildcard(query->module, dt->mod_name))
+ !match_wildcard(query->module, di->mod_name))
continue;
if (query->class_string) {
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
valid_class = _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT;
}
- for (i = 0; i < dt->info.descs.len; i++) {
- struct _ddebug *dp = &dt->info.descs.start[i];
+ for (i = 0; i < di->descs.len; i++) {
+ struct _ddebug *dp = &di->descs.start[i];
if (!ddebug_match_desc(query, dp, valid_class))
continue;
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
#endif
v4pr_info("changed %s:%d [%s]%s %s => %s\n",
trim_prefix(dp->filename), dp->lineno,
- dt->mod_name, dp->function,
+ di->mod_name, dp->function,
ddebug_describe_flags(dp->flags, &fbuf),
ddebug_describe_flags(newflags, &nbuf));
dp->flags = newflags;
@@ -1077,12 +1077,12 @@ static bool ddebug_class_in_range(const int class_id, const struct _ddebug_class
class_id < map->base + map->length);
}
-static const char *ddebug_class_name(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug *dp)
+static const char *ddebug_class_name(struct _ddebug_info *di, struct _ddebug *dp)
{
struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
int i;
- for_subvec(i, map, &dt->info, maps)
+ for_subvec(i, map, di, maps)
if (ddebug_class_in_range(dp->class_id, map))
return map->class_names[dp->class_id - map->base];
@@ -1110,13 +1110,13 @@ static int ddebug_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
seq_printf(m, "%s:%u [%s]%s =%s \"",
trim_prefix(dp->filename), dp->lineno,
- iter->table->mod_name, dp->function,
+ iter->table->info.mod_name, dp->function,
ddebug_describe_flags(dp->flags, &flags));
seq_escape_str(m, dp->format, ESCAPE_SPACE, "\t\r\n\"");
seq_putc(m, '"');
if (dp->class_id != _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT) {
- class = ddebug_class_name(iter->table, dp);
+ class = ddebug_class_name(&iter->table->info, dp);
if (class)
seq_printf(m, " class:%s", class);
else
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
* and length of the subrange at its edges.
*/
for_subvec(i, cm, di, maps) {
- if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->mod_name)) {
+ if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->info.mod_name)) {
if (!nc) {
v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
}
if (nc) {
dt->info.maps.len = nc;
- vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->mod_name, nc);
+ vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->info.mod_name, nc);
}
}
@@ -1199,27 +1199,26 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
* Allocate a new ddebug_table for the given module
* and add it to the global list.
*/
-static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
+static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di)
{
struct ddebug_table *dt;
if (!di->descs.len)
return 0;
- v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->descs.len);
+ v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", di->mod_name, di->descs.len);
dt = kzalloc_obj(*dt);
if (dt == NULL) {
- pr_err("error adding module: %s\n", modname);
+ pr_err("error adding module: %s\n", di->mod_name);
return -ENOMEM;
}
/*
- * For built-in modules, name lives in .rodata and is
- * immortal. For loaded modules, name points at the name[]
- * member of struct module, which lives at least as long as
- * this struct ddebug_table.
+ * For built-in modules, name (as supplied in di by its
+ * callers) lives in .rodata and is immortal. For loaded
+ * modules, name points at the name[] member of struct module,
+ * which lives at least as long as this struct ddebug_table.
*/
- dt->mod_name = modname;
dt->info = *di;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->link);
@@ -1231,7 +1230,7 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
list_add_tail(&dt->link, &ddebug_tables);
mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
- vpr_info("%3u debug prints in module %s\n", di->descs.len, modname);
+ vpr_info("%3u debug prints in module %s\n", di->descs.len, di->mod_name);
return 0;
}
@@ -1294,7 +1293,7 @@ static int ddebug_remove_module(const char *mod_name)
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
list_for_each_entry_safe(dt, nextdt, &ddebug_tables, link) {
- if (dt->mod_name == mod_name) {
+ if (dt->info.mod_name == mod_name) {
ddebug_table_free(dt);
ret = 0;
break;
@@ -1314,7 +1313,8 @@ static int ddebug_module_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long val,
switch (val) {
case MODULE_STATE_COMING:
- ret = ddebug_add_module(&mod->dyndbg_info, mod->name);
+ mod->dyndbg_info.mod_name = mod->name;
+ ret = ddebug_add_module(&mod->dyndbg_info);
if (ret)
WARN(1, "Failed to allocate memory: dyndbg may not work properly.\n");
break;
@@ -1412,7 +1412,8 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
mod_ct++;
di.descs.len = mod_sites;
di.descs.start = iter_mod_start;
- ret = ddebug_add_module(&di, modname);
+ di.mod_name = modname;
+ ret = ddebug_add_module(&di);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
@@ -1423,7 +1424,8 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
}
di.descs.len = mod_sites;
di.descs.start = iter_mod_start;
- ret = ddebug_add_module(&di, modname);
+ di.mod_name = modname;
+ ret = ddebug_add_module(&di);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
--
2.54.0
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From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
The body of ddebug_attach_module_classes() is just a code-block that
finds the contiguous subrange of classmaps matching on modname, and
saves it into the ddebug_table's info record.
Implement this block in a macro to accommodate different component
vectors in the "box" (as named in the for_subvec macro). We will
reuse this macro shortly.
And hoist its invocation out of ddebug_attach_module_classes() up into
ddebug_add_module(). This moves the filtering step up closer to
dynamic_debug_init(), which already segments the builtin pr_debug
descriptors on their mod_name boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
move RvB after SoB
finish hoist - drop old fn - ddebug_attach_module_classes
the v1 rev left the old ddebug_attach_module_classes in place, but it
is completely redundant now, since it already lost the list-linking
job it was doing.
It was being cut out later in the patchset (in the unsent API
adaptation phase), but for cleaner review, lets excise it now.
OLD all-in-1-series (pre split into reviewable chunks)
v10?- reordered params to match kdoc
v12- refactor/rename: s/dd_mark_vector_subrange/dd_set_module_subrange/
1. Renamed the macro from dd_mark_vector_subrange to
dd_set_module_subrange to better reflect its purpose of narrowing a
vector to a module-specific subrange.
2. Simplified the arguments by removing the redundant _dst, as the _di
pointer already provides access to the target _ddebug_info struct.
3. Refactored for Clarity: Instead of overwriting the struct's start
pointer while the for_subvec loop is using it to iterate, I
introduced a temporary __start variable. This avoids the "subtle"
side effect and makes the logic easier to follow.
4. Updated Documentation: Improved the comment block to explicitly
state that the macro scans for the first match and counts
contiguous elements.
---
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index 4a9b9bc9efc5..b877f4c6d778 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ static void vpr_info_dq(const struct ddebug_query *query, const char *msg)
}
static struct _ddebug_class_map *ddebug_find_valid_class(struct ddebug_table const *dt,
- const char *class_string,
- int *class_id)
+ const char *class_string,
+ int *class_id)
{
struct _ddebug_class_map *map;
int i, idx;
@@ -1166,34 +1166,34 @@ static const struct proc_ops proc_fops = {
.proc_write = ddebug_proc_write
};
-static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug_info *di)
-{
- struct _ddebug_class_map *cm;
- int i, nc = 0;
-
- /*
- * Find this module's classmaps in a subrange/wholerange of
- * the builtin/modular classmap vector/section. Save the start
- * and length of the subrange at its edges.
- */
- for_subvec(i, cm, di, maps) {
- if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->info.mod_name)) {
- if (!nc) {
- v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
- i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
- dt->info.maps.start = cm;
- }
- nc++;
- } else if (nc) {
- /* end of matching classmaps */
- break;
- }
- }
- if (nc) {
- dt->info.maps.len = nc;
- vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->info.mod_name, nc);
- }
-}
+/*
+ * Narrow a _ddebug_info's vector (@_vec) to the contiguous subrange
+ * of elements where ->mod_name matches @__di->mod_name.
+ *
+ * This scans the @_di->_vec for the first element matching the module
+ * name, and counts contiguous matches to define the subrange.
+ *
+ * @_i: caller-provided index var
+ * @_sp: cursor into @_vec
+ * @_di: pointer to the struct _ddebug_info to be narrowed
+ * @_vec: name of the vector member (must have .start and .len)
+ */
+#define dd_set_module_subrange(_i, _sp, _di, _vec) ({ \
+ struct _ddebug_info *__di = (_di); \
+ typeof(__di->_vec.start) __start = NULL; \
+ int __nc = 0; \
+ for_subvec(_i, _sp, __di, _vec) { \
+ if (!strcmp((_sp)->mod_name, __di->mod_name)) { \
+ if (!__nc++) \
+ __start = (_sp); \
+ } else if (__nc) { \
+ break; /* end of consecutive matches */ \
+ } \
+ } \
+ if (__nc) \
+ __di->_vec.start = __start; \
+ __di->_vec.len = __nc; \
+})
/*
* Allocate a new ddebug_table for the given module
@@ -1202,6 +1202,8 @@ static void ddebug_attach_module_classes(struct ddebug_table *dt, struct _ddebug
static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di)
{
struct ddebug_table *dt;
+ struct _ddebug_class_map *cm;
+ int i;
if (!di->descs.len)
return 0;
@@ -1223,8 +1225,7 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dt->link);
- if (di->maps.len)
- ddebug_attach_module_classes(dt, di);
+ dd_set_module_subrange(i, cm, &dt->info, maps);
mutex_lock(&ddebug_lock);
list_add_tail(&dt->link, &ddebug_tables);
--
2.54.0
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@ 2026-05-23 7:45 ` sashiko-bot
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From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Low] The patch silently removes verbose debug logging (`v2pr_info` and `vpr_info`) that was previously emitted when module classmaps were successfully attached.
--
commit 6fc0ea29f4f01911b3505de6afab9a84131d7e51
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
dyndbg: hoist classmap-filter-by-modname up to ddebug_add_module
This patch refactors the subrange filtering of module classmaps by moving
the logic from ddebug_attach_module_classes into a new macro named
dd_set_module_subrange. It also hoists the macro invocation into
ddebug_add_module to apply the filtering closer to initialization.
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index 4a9b9bc9efc5a..b877f4c6d778e 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[ ... ]
> - if (!strcmp(cm->mod_name, dt->info.mod_name)) {
> - if (!nc) {
> - v2pr_info("start subrange, class[%d]: module:%s base:%d len:%d ty:%d\n",
> - i, cm->mod_name, cm->base, cm->length, cm->map_type);
> - dt->info.maps.start = cm;
> - }
> - nc++;
> - } else if (nc) {
> - /* end of matching classmaps */
> - break;
> - }
> - }
> - if (nc) {
> - dt->info.maps.len = nc;
> - vpr_info("module:%s attached %d classes\n", dt->info.mod_name, nc);
> - }
> -}
[ ... ]
> +#define dd_set_module_subrange(_i, _sp, _di, _vec) ({ \
> + struct _ddebug_info *__di = (_di); \
> + typeof(__di->_vec.start) __start = NULL; \
> + int __nc = 0; \
> + for_subvec(_i, _sp, __di, _vec) { \
> + if (!strcmp((_sp)->mod_name, __di->mod_name)) { \
> + if (!__nc++) \
> + __start = (_sp); \
> + } else if (__nc) { \
> + break; /* end of consecutive matches */ \
> + } \
> + } \
> + if (__nc) \
> + __di->_vec.start = __start; \
> + __di->_vec.len = __nc; \
> +})
[Severity: Low]
Was the removal of the verbose debug logging intentional?
The replaced ddebug_attach_module_classes function previously emitted
v2pr_info and vpr_info messages when module classmaps were successfully
attached. These diagnostic log messages appear to be completely removed
rather than migrated to the new macro.
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260523-dd-maint-2-v2-0-b937312aa083@gmail.com?part=21
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@ 2026-05-23 7:14 ` Jim Cromie
2026-05-23 7:37 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] dyndbg: change __dynamic_func_call_cls* macros into expressions Jim Cromie
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] dyndbg: improve section names Jim Cromie
23 siblings, 1 reply; 34+ messages in thread
From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Łukasz Bartosik, Louis Chauvet
Add a selftest script for dynamic-debug. The config requires
CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=m and CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_SUBMOD=m,
which tacitly requires either CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE=y
ATM this has just basic_tests(), which modify pr_debug() flags in the
builtin params module. This means they're available to manipulate and
observe the effects in "cat control".
This is backported from another feature branch; the support-fns (thx
Lukas) have unused features at the moment, they'll get used shortly.
The script enables simple virtme-ng testing:
[jimc@gandalf b0-ftrace]$ vrun_t
virtme-ng 1.32+115.g07b109d
doing: vng --name v6.14-rc4-60-gd5f48427de0c \
--user root -v -p 4 -a dynamic_debug.verbose=3 V=1 \
-- ../tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh
virtme: waiting for virtiofsd to start
..
And add dynamic_debug to TARGETS, so `make run_tests` sees it properly
For the impatient, set TARGETS explicitly:
[root@v6 selftests]# make TARGETS=dynamic_debug run_tests
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
TAP version 13
1..1
# timeout set to 45
# selftests: dynamic_debug: dyndbg_selftest.sh
# # BASIC_TESTS 95.422122] dyndbg: query 0: 0"=_" mod:*
...
NOTES
check KCONFIG_CONFIG to avoid silly fails
Several tests are dependent upon config choices. Lets avoid failing
where that is noise.
The KCONFIG_CONFIG var exists to convey the config-file around. If
the var names a file, read it and extract the relevant CONFIG items,
and use them to skip the dependent tests, thus avoiding the fails that
would follow, and the disruption to whatever CI is running these
selftests.
If the envar doesn't name a config-file, ".config" is assumed.
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y:
basic-tests() and comma-terminator-tests() test for the presence of
the builtin pr_debugs in module/main.c, which I deemed stable and
therefore safe to count. That said, the test fails if only
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE=y is set. It could be rewritten to test
against test-dynamic-debug.ko, but that just trades one config
dependence for another.
Co-developed-by: Łukasz Bartosik <ukaszb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Bartosik <ukaszb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
drop commit-msg mention of yet-to-be-submitted tests
move RvB after SoB
script fixups per sashiko review
1. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y is set correctly.
2. All subshell captures $( ( ... ) 2>&1 ) are fixed.
3. All echo variables are safely quoted to prevent word-splitting.
4. Standardized on modern /sys/kernel/tracing/ paths.
5. exit $exp_exit_code correctly propagates failure status.
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/Makefile | 9 +
tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/config | 8 +
.../selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh | 257 +++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 276 insertions(+)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e87bfe2e9e62..3f1c7dd278d4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9083,6 +9083,7 @@ F: include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
F: include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
F: lib/dynamic_debug.c
F: lib/test_dynamic_debug.c
+F: tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/*
DYNAMIC INTERRUPT MODERATION
M: Tal Gilboa <talgi@nvidia.com>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
index 6e59b8f63e41..17c4ddbcee89 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ TARGETS += drivers/net/team
TARGETS += drivers/net/virtio_net
TARGETS += drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs
TARGETS += dt
+TARGETS += dynamic_debug
TARGETS += efivarfs
TARGETS += exec
TARGETS += fchmodat2
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6d06fa7f1040
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+# borrowed from Makefile for user memory selftests
+
+# No binaries, but make sure arg-less "make" doesn't trigger "run_tests"
+all:
+
+TEST_PROGS := dyndbg_selftest.sh
+
+include ../lib.mk
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/config b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ec478b17873d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/config
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+# basic tests ref the builtin params module
+CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
+
+# more testing is possible with these,
+# but insisting on them here skips testing entirely for such configs
+# CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=m
+# CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_SUBMOD=m
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..01c035fe8c9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+V=${V:=0} # invoke as V=1 $0 for global verbose
+RED="\033[0;31m"
+GREEN="\033[0;32m"
+YELLOW="\033[0;33m"
+BLUE="\033[0;34m"
+MAGENTA="\033[0;35m"
+CYAN="\033[0;36m"
+NC="\033[0;0m"
+error_msg=""
+
+[ -e /proc/dynamic_debug/control ] || {
+ echo -e "${RED}: this test requires CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y ${NC}"
+ exit 0 # nothing to test here, no good reason to fail.
+}
+
+# need info to avoid failures due to untestable configs
+
+[ -f "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" ] || KCONFIG_CONFIG=".config"
+if [ -f "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" ]; then
+ echo "# consulting KCONFIG_CONFIG: $KCONFIG_CONFIG"
+ grep -q "CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y" $KCONFIG_CONFIG ; LACK_DD_BUILTIN=$?
+ grep -q "CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=m" $KCONFIG_CONFIG ; LACK_TMOD=$?
+ grep -q "CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_SUBMOD=m" $KCONFIG_CONFIG ; LACK_TMOD_SUBMOD=$?
+ if [ $V -eq 1 ]; then
+ echo LACK_DD_BUILTIN: $LACK_DD_BUILTIN
+ echo LACK_TMOD: $LACK_TMOD
+ echo LACK_TMOD_SUBMOD: $LACK_TMOD_SUBMOD
+ fi
+else
+ LACK_DD_BUILTIN=0
+ LACK_TMOD=0
+ LACK_TMOD_SUBMOD=0
+fi
+
+function vx () {
+ echo "$1" > /sys/module/dynamic_debug/parameters/verbose
+}
+
+function ddgrep () {
+ grep "$1" /proc/dynamic_debug/control
+}
+
+function doprints () {
+ cat /sys/module/test_dynamic_debug/parameters/do_prints
+}
+
+function ddcmd () {
+ exp_exit_code=0
+ num_args=$#
+ if [ "${@:$#}" = "pass" ]; then
+ num_args=$#-1
+ elif [ "${@:$#}" = "fail" ]; then
+ num_args=$#-1
+ exp_exit_code=1
+ fi
+ args=${@:1:$num_args}
+ output=$( (echo "$args" > /proc/dynamic_debug/control) 2>&1)
+ exit_code=$?
+ error_msg=$(echo "$output" | cut -d ":" -f 5 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
+ handle_exit_code $BASH_LINENO $FUNCNAME $exit_code $exp_exit_code
+}
+
+function handle_exit_code() {
+ local exp_exit_code=0
+ [ $# == 4 ] && exp_exit_code=$4
+ if [ $3 -ne $exp_exit_code ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$1 $2() expected to exit with code $exp_exit_code"
+ [ $3 == 1 ] && echo "Error: '$error_msg'"
+ exit $exp_exit_code
+ fi
+}
+
+# $1 - pattern to match, pattern in $1 is enclosed by spaces for a match ""\s$1\s"
+# $2 - number of times the pattern passed in $1 is expected to match
+# $3 - optional can be set either to "-r" or "-v"
+# "-r" means relaxed matching in this case pattern provided in $1 is passed
+# as is without enclosing it with spaces
+# "-v" prints matching lines
+# $4 - optional when $3 is set to "-r" then $4 can be used to pass "-v"
+function check_match_ct {
+ pattern="\s$1\s"
+ exp_cnt=0
+
+ [ "$3" == "-r" ] && pattern="$1"
+ let cnt=$(ddgrep "$pattern" | wc -l)
+ if [ $V -eq 1 ] || [ "$3" == "-v" ] || [ "$4" == "-v" ]; then
+ echo -ne "${BLUE}" && ddgrep $pattern && echo -ne "${NC}"
+ fi
+ [ $# -gt 1 ] && exp_cnt=$2
+ if [ $cnt -ne $exp_cnt ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO check failed expected $exp_cnt on $1, got $cnt"
+ exit
+ else
+ echo ": $cnt matches on $1"
+ fi
+}
+
+# $1 - trace instance name
+# #2 - if > 0 then directory is expected to exist, if <= 0 then otherwise
+# $3 - "-v" for verbose
+function check_trace_instance_dir {
+ if [ -e /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1 ]; then
+ if [ "$3" == "-v" ] ; then
+ echo "ls -l /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1: "
+ ls -l /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1
+ fi
+ if [ $2 -le 0 ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO error trace instance \
+ '/sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1' does exist"
+ exit
+ fi
+ else
+ if [ $2 -gt 0 ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO error trace instance \
+ '/sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1' does not exist"
+ exit
+ fi
+ fi
+}
+
+function tmark {
+ echo $* > /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker
+}
+
+# $1 - trace instance name
+# $2 - line number
+# $3 - if > 0 then the instance is expected to be opened, otherwise
+# the instance is expected to be closed
+function check_trace_instance {
+ output=$(tail -n9 /proc/dynamic_debug/control | grep ": Opened trace instances" \
+ | xargs -n1 | grep $1)
+ if [ "$output" != $1 ] && [ $3 -gt 0 ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$2 trace instance $1 is not opened"
+ exit
+ fi
+ if [ "$output" == $1 ] && [ $3 -le 0 ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$2 trace instance $1 is not closed"
+ exit
+ fi
+}
+
+function is_trace_instance_opened {
+ check_trace_instance $1 $BASH_LINENO 1
+}
+
+function is_trace_instance_closed {
+ check_trace_instance $1 $BASH_LINENO 0
+}
+
+# $1 - trace instance directory to delete
+# $2 - if > 0 then directory is expected to be deleted successfully, if <= 0 then otherwise
+function del_trace_instance_dir() {
+ exp_exit_code=1
+ [ $2 -gt 0 ] && exp_exit_code=0
+ output=$( (rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1) 2>&1)
+ exit_code=$?
+ error_msg=$(echo "$output" | cut -d ":" -f 3 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
+ handle_exit_code $BASH_LINENO $FUNCNAME $exit_code $exp_exit_code
+}
+
+function error_log_ref {
+ # to show what I got
+ : echo "# error-log-ref: $1"
+ : echo cat \$2
+}
+
+function ifrmmod {
+ lsmod | grep $1 2>&1>/dev/null && rmmod $1
+}
+
+# $1 - text to search for
+function search_trace() {
+ search_trace_name 0 1 $1
+}
+
+# $1 - trace instance name, 0 for global event trace
+# $2 - line number counting from the bottom
+# $3 - text to search for
+function search_trace_name() {
+ if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
+ buf=$(cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace)
+ line=$(tail -$2 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace | head -1 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
+ else
+ buf=$(cat /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1/trace)
+ line=$(tail -$2 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/$1/trace | head -1 | \
+ sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
+ fi
+ if [ $2 = 0 ]; then
+ # whole-buf check
+ output=$(echo "$buf" | grep "$3")
+ else
+ output=$(echo "$line" | grep "$3")
+ fi
+ if [ "$output" = "" ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO search for '$3' failed \
+ in line '$line' or '$buf'"
+ exit
+ fi
+ if [ $V = 1 ]; then
+ echo -e "${MAGENTA}: search_trace_name in $1 found: \n$output \nin:${BLUE} $buf ${NC}"
+ fi
+}
+
+# $1 - error message to check
+function check_err_msg() {
+ if [ "$error_msg" != "$1" ]; then
+ echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO error message '$error_msg' \
+ does not match with '$1'"
+ exit
+ fi
+}
+
+function basic_tests {
+ echo -e "${GREEN}# BASIC_TESTS ${NC}"
+ if [ $LACK_DD_BUILTIN -eq 1 ]; then
+ echo "SKIP"
+ return
+ fi
+ ddcmd =_ # zero everything
+ check_match_ct =p 0
+
+ # module params are builtin to handle boot args
+ check_match_ct '\[params\]' 4 -r
+ ddcmd module params +mpf
+ check_match_ct =pmf 4
+
+ # multi-cmd input, newline separated, with embedded comments
+ cat <<"EOF" > /proc/dynamic_debug/control
+ module params =_ # clear params
+ module params +mf # set flags
+ module params func parse_args +sl # other flags
+EOF
+ check_match_ct =mf 3
+ check_match_ct =mfsl 1
+ ddcmd =_
+}
+
+tests_list=(
+ basic_tests
+)
+
+# Run tests
+
+ifrmmod test_dynamic_debug_submod
+ifrmmod test_dynamic_debug
+
+for test in "${tests_list[@]}"
+do
+ $test
+ echo ""
+done
+echo -en "${GREEN}# Done on: "
+date
+echo -en "${NC}"
--
2.54.0
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 34+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v2 22/24] selftests-dyndbg: add a dynamic_debug run_tests target
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] selftests-dyndbg: add a dynamic_debug run_tests target Jim Cromie
@ 2026-05-23 7:37 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 34+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-23 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Cromie; +Cc: linux-modules
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] Test failure conditions incorrectly exit with a success status (0), silently hiding test failures from the kselftest framework.
- [Medium] The script incorrectly assumes `.config` is available at runtime, which will cause false test failures when selftests are installed and run on a target device.
--
commit 5991b9725cc8742537ed8b6a73204e4d44da0fc2
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
selftests-dyndbg: add a dynamic_debug run_tests target
This commit adds a dynamic-debug selftest script that modifies pr_debug()
flags and checks their effects. It also integrates dynamic_debug into the
kselftest framework's TARGETS list.
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000000..01c035fe8c9a2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/dynamic_debug/dyndbg_selftest.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
> +#!/bin/bash
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
[ ... ]
> +[ -f "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" ] || KCONFIG_CONFIG=".config"
> +if [ -f "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" ]; then
[Severity: Medium]
Will this work reliably when selftests are installed and run on a target
device? When tests are run via `make install` on a target, the source tree's
`.config` won't be available.
If the `.config` is missing, the script defaults to `LACK_DD_BUILTIN=0`, which
may cause false test failures if the target kernel doesn't actually have the
config enabled. Could runtime indicators be checked instead of build-time files?
> + echo "# consulting KCONFIG_CONFIG: $KCONFIG_CONFIG"
> + grep -q "CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y" $KCONFIG_CONFIG ; LACK_DD_BUILTIN=$?
> + grep -q "CONFIG_TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=m" $KCONFIG_CONFIG ; LACK_TMOD=$?
[ ... ]
> +function handle_exit_code() {
> + local exp_exit_code=0
> + [ $# == 4 ] && exp_exit_code=$4
> + if [ $3 -ne $exp_exit_code ]; then
> + echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$1 $2() expected to exit with code $exp_exit_code"
> + [ $3 == 1 ] && echo "Error: '$error_msg'"
> + exit $exp_exit_code
[Severity: Medium]
Does this mask test failures? If the actual exit code (`$3`) does not match
`exp_exit_code` (which defaults to 0), the script calls `exit $exp_exit_code`.
Since `exp_exit_code` is typically 0 when expecting a command to succeed, the
script will exit with 0 upon encountering an error, silently hiding the failure
from the kselftest framework.
> + fi
> +}
[ ... ]
> +function check_match_ct {
> + pattern="\s$1\s"
> + exp_cnt=0
> +
> + [ "$3" == "-r" ] && pattern="$1"
> + let cnt=$(ddgrep "$pattern" | wc -l)
> + if [ $V -eq 1 ] || [ "$3" == "-v" ] || [ "$4" == "-v" ]; then
> + echo -ne "${BLUE}" && ddgrep $pattern && echo -ne "${NC}"
> + fi
> + [ $# -gt 1 ] && exp_cnt=$2
> + if [ $cnt -ne $exp_cnt ]; then
> + echo -e "${RED}: $BASH_SOURCE:$BASH_LINENO check failed expected $exp_cnt on $1, got $cnt"
> + exit
[Severity: Medium]
Does this also mask test failures? Calling `exit` without arguments returns
the status of the last executed command.
Since the `echo` command immediately preceding it will succeed with a 0 exit
code, the script exits with 0 and the kselftest framework will incorrectly mark
the failed test as passed. This same pattern appears to be used in several
other functions in the script.
> + else
> + echo ": $cnt matches on $1"
> + fi
> +}
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260523-dd-maint-2-v2-0-b937312aa083@gmail.com?part=22
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 34+ messages in thread
* [PATCH v2 23/24] dyndbg: change __dynamic_func_call_cls* macros into expressions
2026-05-23 7:14 [PATCH v2 00/24] dynamic-debug cleanups refactors maintenance + alignment fix Jim Cromie
` (21 preceding siblings ...)
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] selftests-dyndbg: add a dynamic_debug run_tests target Jim Cromie
@ 2026-05-23 7:14 ` Jim Cromie
2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] dyndbg: improve section names Jim Cromie
23 siblings, 0 replies; 34+ messages in thread
From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie, Louis Chauvet
The Xe driver's XE_IOCTL_DBG macro calls drm_dbg() from inside an if
(expression). This breaks when CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y because
the invoked macro has a do-while-0 wrapper, and is not an expression.
if (cond && (drm_dbg("expr-form"),1)) {
... do some more stuff
}
Fix for this usage by changing __dynamic_func_call_cls{,_no_desc}
macros into expressions, by replacing the do-while-0s with a ({ })
wrapper. In the common usage, the trailing ';' converts the
expression into a statement.
drm_dbg("statement form");
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
---
v2:
fix statement-expressions to return 0 (not void) like their respective fallbacks
1. Add 0; to __dynamic_func_call_cls
2. Add 0; to __dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc
3. Convert the disabled fallback of dynamic_hex_dump from do { ... } while(0) to ({ ... 0; })
move RvB after SoB
---
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index 11ec40f488f3..fe73aa27b350 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -224,24 +224,26 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
* (|_cls): adds in _DPRINT_CLASS_DFLT as needed
* (|_no_desc): former gets callsite descriptor as 1st arg (for prdbgs)
*/
-#define __dynamic_func_call_cls(id, cls, fmt, func, ...) do { \
+#define __dynamic_func_call_cls(id, cls, fmt, func, ...) ({ \
DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA_CLS(id, cls, fmt); \
if (DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(id)) { \
func(&id, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
__dynamic_dump_stack(id); \
} \
-} while (0)
+ 0; /* match no_printk return value */ \
+})
#define __dynamic_func_call(id, fmt, func, ...) \
__dynamic_func_call_cls(id, _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT, fmt, \
func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
-#define __dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(id, cls, fmt, func, ...) do { \
+#define __dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(id, cls, fmt, func, ...) ({ \
DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA_CLS(id, cls, fmt); \
if (DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(id)) { \
func(__VA_ARGS__); \
__dynamic_dump_stack(id); \
} \
-} while (0)
+ 0; /* match no_printk return value */ \
+})
#define __dynamic_func_call_no_desc(id, fmt, func, ...) \
__dynamic_func_call_cls_no_desc(id, _DPRINTK_CLASS_DFLT, \
fmt, func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
@@ -321,10 +323,12 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
dev_no_printk(KERN_DEBUG, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define dynamic_hex_dump(prefix_str, prefix_type, rowsize, \
groupsize, buf, len, ascii) \
- do { if (0) \
+({ \
+ if (0) \
print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, prefix_str, prefix_type, \
- rowsize, groupsize, buf, len, ascii); \
- } while (0)
+ rowsize, groupsize, buf, len, ascii); \
+ 0; \
+})
#endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG || (CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE && DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE) */
--
2.54.0
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 34+ messages in thread* [PATCH v2 24/24] dyndbg: improve section names
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2026-05-23 7:14 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] dyndbg: change __dynamic_func_call_cls* macros into expressions Jim Cromie
@ 2026-05-23 7:14 ` Jim Cromie
23 siblings, 0 replies; 34+ messages in thread
From: Jim Cromie @ 2026-05-23 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Arnd Bergmann, Jason Baron,
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen,
Aaron Tomlin, Andrew Morton, Shuah Khan
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-modules,
linux-kselftest, Jim Cromie
change __dyndbg to __dyndbg_descs
change __dyndbg_classes to __dyndbg_class_maps
this sets up for adding __dyndbg_class_users
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h | 14 +++++++-------
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 4 ++--
kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
index 9d8951bef688..ec661f9f3793 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/dyndbg.lds.h
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@
#define __ASM_GENERIC_DYNDBG_LDS_H
#include <asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h>
-#define DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg, ___dyndbg) \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_classes, ___dyndbg_classes)
+#define DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_descs, ___dyndbg_descs) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_class_maps, ___dyndbg_class_maps)
#define MOD_DYNDBG_SECTIONS() \
- __dyndbg 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
- KEEP(*(__dyndbg)) \
+ __dyndbg_descs 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
+ KEEP(*(__dyndbg_descs)) \
} \
- __dyndbg_classes 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
- KEEP(*(__dyndbg_classes)) \
+ __dyndbg_class_maps 0 : ALIGN(8) { \
+ KEEP(*(__dyndbg_class_maps)) \
}
#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_DYNDBG_LDS_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index fe73aa27b350..206337af71e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ struct _ddebug_class_param {
#define DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP(_var, _maptype, _base, ...) \
static const char *_var##_classnames[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }; \
static struct _ddebug_class_map __aligned(8) __used \
- __section("__dyndbg_classes") _var = { \
+ __section("__dyndbg_class_maps") _var = { \
.mod = THIS_MODULE, \
.mod_name = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
.base = _base, \
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ void __dynamic_ibdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
#define DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA_CLS(name, cls, fmt) \
static struct _ddebug __aligned(8) \
- __section("__dyndbg") name = { \
+ __section("__dyndbg_descs") name = { \
.modname = KBUILD_MODNAME, \
.function = __func__, \
.filename = __FILE__, \
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index c2b6e70f2e77..bd7899a91755 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -2774,7 +2774,7 @@ static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
pr_warn("%s: Ignoring obsolete parameters\n", mod->name);
#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
- mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_descriptors",
+ mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_descs",
sizeof(*mod->dyndbg_info.descs.start),
&mod->dyndbg_info.descs.len);
mod->dyndbg_info.maps.start = section_objs(info, "__dyndbg_class_maps",
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index b877f4c6d778..ce70cfee50c5 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@
#include <rdma/ib_verbs.h>
-extern struct _ddebug __start___dyndbg[];
-extern struct _ddebug __stop___dyndbg[];
-extern struct _ddebug_class_map __start___dyndbg_classes[];
-extern struct _ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_classes[];
+extern struct _ddebug __start___dyndbg_descs[];
+extern struct _ddebug __stop___dyndbg_descs[];
+extern struct _ddebug_class_map __start___dyndbg_class_maps[];
+extern struct _ddebug_class_map __stop___dyndbg_class_maps[];
struct ddebug_table {
struct list_head link;
@@ -1379,10 +1379,10 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
char *cmdline;
struct _ddebug_info di = {
- .descs.start = __start___dyndbg,
- .maps.start = __start___dyndbg_classes,
- .descs.len = __stop___dyndbg - __start___dyndbg,
- .maps.len = __stop___dyndbg_classes - __start___dyndbg_classes,
+ .descs.start = __start___dyndbg_descs,
+ .maps.start = __start___dyndbg_class_maps,
+ .descs.len = __stop___dyndbg_descs - __start___dyndbg_descs,
+ .maps.len = __stop___dyndbg_class_maps - __start___dyndbg_class_maps,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
@@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
- if (&__start___dyndbg == &__stop___dyndbg) {
+ if (&__start___dyndbg_descs == &__stop___dyndbg_descs) {
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG)) {
pr_warn("_ddebug table is empty in a CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG build\n");
return 1;
@@ -1403,11 +1403,11 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
return 0;
}
- iter = iter_mod_start = __start___dyndbg;
+ iter = iter_mod_start = __start___dyndbg_descs;
modname = iter->modname;
i = mod_sites = mod_ct = 0;
- for (; iter < __stop___dyndbg; iter++, i++, mod_sites++) {
+ for (; iter < __stop___dyndbg_descs; iter++, i++, mod_sites++) {
if (strcmp(modname, iter->modname)) {
mod_ct++;
@@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
goto out_err;
ddebug_init_success = 1;
- vpr_info("%d prdebugs in %d modules, %d KiB in ddebug tables, %d kiB in __dyndbg section\n",
+ vpr_info("%d prdebugs in %d modules, %d KiB in ddebug tables, %d kiB in __dyndbg_descs section\n",
i, mod_ct, (int)((mod_ct * sizeof(struct ddebug_table)) >> 10),
(int)((i * sizeof(struct _ddebug)) >> 10));
--
2.54.0
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