[PATCH 09/11] soundwire: intel: add dynamic debug trace for clock-stop invalid configs

Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com
Tue Sep 1 15:31:19 CEST 2020



On 9/1/20 6:07 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 31-08-20, 10:15, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> Detect cases where the clock is assumed to be stopped but the IP is
>>>>>>>> not in the relevant state, and add a dynamic debug trace.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you meant a debug print..and it looks like error print below (also in title).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't understand the comment. Is the 'trace' confusing and are you asking
>>>>>> to e.g. change the commit message to 'add dynamic debug log'?
>>>>>
>>>>> Question is what is dynamic about this?
>>>> dev_dbg() is part of the kernel dynamic debug capability...
>>>>
>>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.html
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what you are asking here?
>>>
>>> :-| where is dev_dbg() ?
>>>
>>> See [1]
>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>>> +			dev_err(dev, "%s invalid configuration, clock was not stopped", __func__);
>>>
>>>                           ^^^^^^^
>>
>> it's still a log using the "dynamic debug" framework.
>>
>> Again, what are you asking us to fix?
> 
> Ah you are really testing my patience!

I was asking a question, not making a statement.

There is no need to blow a fuse or yell via exclamation marks at people 
who provide 90% of the patches for the subsystem you maintain, or 
provide fixes for your own patches.

> The title says "dynamic debug" and then you use a dev_err which is *not*
> part of dynamic debug as it is printed always and cannot be dynamically
> enabled and disabled!

I accept the argument, I just didn't understand what the issue was.

> See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst:
> 
> "Dynamic debug is designed to allow you to dynamically enable/disable
> kernel code to obtain additional kernel information.  Currently, if
> ``CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG`` is set, then all ``pr_debug()``/``dev_dbg()`` and
> ``print_hex_dump_debug()``/``print_hex_dump_bytes()`` calls can be dynamically
> enabled per-callsite."
> 
> No dev_err here!

ok, so we will change the title to 'soundwire: intel: add error log for 
clock-stop invalid config'.

Thanks
-Pierre


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