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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0903111149340.1040@vixen.sonytel.be>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:50:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
To: Greg Banks <gnb@....com>
cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Greg Banks wrote:
> Jason Baron wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:08:41PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:29:50 +0100 (CET)
> >> Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>> The same could be done with the problematic pr_fmt definition:
> >>>>
> >>>> #define pr_fmt(fmt) __func__ ": " fmt
> >>>>
> >>> No, that also doesn't work:
> >>>
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:150: error: expected '}' before string constant
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:150: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:162: error: expected '}' before string constant
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:162: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:166: error: expected '}' before string constant
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:166: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:170: error: expected '}' before string constant
> >>> | crypto/zlib.c:170: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> BTW, Martin: Is `#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: " fmt, __func__' a valid and
> >>>>> intended usage of your pr_fmt() infrastructure?
> >>>>>
> >>>> The indended use is a simple prefix to the format string. To paste an
> >>>> additional parameter is an interesting use of the pr_fmt macro ..
> >>>>
> >>> Bummer, I was so happy I could do things like
> >>>
> >>> | #define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s:%u: " fmt, __func__, __LINE__
> >>>
> >> Actually that seem like a nice thing to have. With the upstream version of
> >> dynamic_pr_debug this works, there the format string is used only on a printk.
> >> git commit 25b67b75587d43ff3f09ad88c03c70a38372d95d introduces the code
> >> that pastes the format string to the _ddebug structure.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > hmmm...yeah, some macro magic in include/linux/dynamic_debug.h converts
> > the 'fmt' arg into a series of strings. It doesn't look as pretty in the
> > dynamic debug control file:
> >
> > crypto/zlib.c:333 [zlib]zlib_decompress_final - "\042%s: \042
> > \042avail_in %u, avail_out %u (consumed %u, produced %u)\n\042,
> > __func__"
> >
> > with all those '\042' there, which are the '"' characters, but we
> > probably could live with it.
> >
> > patch below.
> >
> >
>
> I think this patch does the same thing more cleanly.
>
> When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled, allow callers of pr_debug()
> to provide their own definition of pr_fmt() even if that definition
> uses tricks like
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s:" fmt, __func__
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@....com>
Thanks, much cleaner!
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
> ---
>
> include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 4 ++--
> include/linux/kernel.h | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-git/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-git.orig/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> +++ linux-git/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ extern int ddebug_remove_module(char *mo
> { KBUILD_MODNAME, __func__, __FILE__, fmt, DEBUG_HASH, \
> DEBUG_HASH2, __LINE__, _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT }; \
> if (__dynamic_dbg_enabled(descriptor)) \
> - printk(KERN_DEBUG KBUILD_MODNAME ":" fmt, \
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG KBUILD_MODNAME ":" pr_fmt(fmt), \
> ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } while (0)
>
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ extern int ddebug_remove_module(char *mo
> DEBUG_HASH2, __LINE__, _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT }; \
> if (__dynamic_dbg_enabled(descriptor)) \
> dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, dev, \
> - KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt, \
> + KBUILD_MODNAME ": " pr_fmt(fmt),\
> ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } while (0)
>
> Index: linux-git/include/linux/kernel.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-git.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ linux-git/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -359,8 +359,9 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *
> #define pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
> printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #elif defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG)
> +/* dynamic_pr_debug() uses pr_fmt() internally so we don't need it here */
> #define pr_debug(fmt, ...) do { \
> - dynamic_pr_debug(pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> + dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } while (0)
> #else
> #define pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
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