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* [patch 0/5] activate & deactivate dprintks individually and severally
@ 2009-01-20  1:29 Greg Banks
  2009-01-20  1:29 ` [patch 1/5] Move definitions of struct module_sect_attr back into module.h Greg Banks
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From: Greg Banks @ 2009-01-20  1:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel ML; +Cc: Linux NFS ML, Linux NFSv4 ML, SystemTAP ML

As mentioned in the recent discussion on NFS trace points on the NFS &
SystemTap mailing lists.  This patch allows field support staff and
kernel developers debug kernel problems, by enabling them to treat
dprintks as precise trace points rather than syslog spamming tools.

This is a forward ported (from 2.6.16), updated, and split version
of a patch that has been used in SGI's internal development tree for
the last few months.  The very first version of this was used about
eighteen months ago when debugging NFS/RDMA, which has an enormous
number of dprintks and no other way to debug it.

Jason Baron suggested I post it here for review and contrast with
his dynamic dprintk feature.

-- 
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
the brightly coloured sporks of revolution.
I don't speak for SGI.

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* [patch 0/5] activate & deactivate dprintks individually and severally
@ 2009-01-19  6:40 Greg Banks
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Greg Banks @ 2009-01-19  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux NFS ML; +Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler

As mentioned in the recent discussion on NFS trace points.

This is a forward ported (from 2.6.16), updated, and split version
of a patch that has been used in SGI's internal development tree for
the last few months.  It's designed to help field support staff and
kernel developers debug kernel problems, by enabling them to treat
dprintks as precise trace points rather than syslog spamming tools.

The very first version of this was used about eighteen months ago
when debugging NFS/RDMA, which has an enormous number of dprintks
and no other way to debug it.

-- 
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
the brightly coloured sporks of revolution.
I don't speak for SGI.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread

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2009-01-20  1:29 ` [patch 2/5] Add apply_modules() which applies a function to each module Greg Banks
2009-01-20  1:29 ` [patch 3/5] Make the dprintk() macro record information about the callsite Greg Banks
2009-01-20  1:29 ` [patch 4/5] Add the dprintk module to allow dprintks to be activated/deactivated singly Greg Banks
2009-01-20  1:29 ` [patch 5/5] Add a module to test the dprintk module Greg Banks
2009-01-21 15:28 ` [patch 0/5] activate & deactivate dprintks individually and severally Jason Baron
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